Review on 📸 Mcoplus MK-320 TTL Flash Speedlite for Olympus OM-D E-P5 E-PM E-M1 E-M5 E-M10 EPL5 E-PL6 E-PL7 LUMIX GM5 GX1 GX7 GX8 G3 LX100 with Cleaning Cloth by Josh Tadder

Note this will take some time. I bought two of these, one from Generic and one from Mcoplus. I bought the 1st from Generic and the 2nd from Mcoplus. I bought them from Revain where I buy most of my cameras. After checking the first one, I found that its delivery date was about a month away. I just received this new camera and can't wait to experience it in all its guises. Since they were really cheap and I had some coupons I bought a second one because I think I could get it on Revain Prime and get it in 2 days, it was about a dollar cheaper (I need to learn to shop better). I bought the MEKE flash because I had previously bought it for my Nikon and it worked just as well as my Nikon flashes and at a much lower price. Anyway I liked it. On the 3rd day after I placed my second order, they both showed up at my door (whatever one may say). I unpacked the Universal first because I ordered it first. Well I went through the manual, set up the flash on the camera and started testing everything. It seemed to be working fine. I thought I tied it. Then the train approached (uh, uh). Things were starting to get crazy (I needed Jones). It looks like I'm not turning on the flash when I turn off the flash and go on without the flash and wanted to turn the flash back on later. I had to turn the camera off, then remove the flash from the camera (I checked if the flash would turn on when the camera was off), then reinstall the flash, turn it on, then turn the camera on and it worked fine again. After a bunch of variations on this theme, I kind of said it's ok, I can do the job. So, the next weird thing. I bought a camera adapter ring to use with some of my Nikon lenses (it's a great option and quite fun). I wanted to see what kind of reaction I would get with this flash. When I used the adapter with a Nikon lens, the flash did not fire in any of the camera or flash modes. What does that mean? Does the flash have to receive a signal from the lens before the camera knows there is an external flash on the hot shoe? I put the Olympus lens back on and the flash worked again. Anyway after a week or so of messing around with the camera and all the stuff I bought to improve my photography around the house. I decided it was time to test everything I had learned. So I went to the lakeside village of London Bridge. To get some great photos and boot up the camera and all that. After about 3 hours I went home with the results (good and bad). One thing was for sure: I was going to have to bite the bullet and buy this $300 Olympus flash. Just keep it as an off-camera wingman (which it seemed perfectly capable of handling). As I sat at my computer preparing to place an order and thinking 1200, so I spent all this time cringing, I had a wild thought. Why not try another flash that is exactly like this (makes a lot of sense), right? Well, at that moment there was no logic (or was there)? Anyway, I put another flash (from Mcoplus) on the camera. Guess what? All the fancy stuff was gone and the flash worked great, even with the adapter and my Nikon lenses. Sometimes my brilliance amazes even me. I can't believe these two flashes are made in different factories, but maybe. Anyway, one was good and the other bad. From now on maybe I should buy everything twice.