Can I trigger an Olympus FL-50R off-camera with a Canon 5D Mark II using a manual radio trigger?
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I want to use an Olympus FL-50R flash wirelessly with a Canon 5D Mark II. Manual flash control is fine; I do not need TTL. Will a third-party radio trigger work between this camera and flash, and is there anything specific I should look for?
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Yes, nearly any manual-only radio trigger should work fine between the Canon 5DMkII and the FL-50R, as both the four-thirds flash foot and the Canon EOS hotshoe are iso-compatible, so the center sync pin signal should work just fine.
If you have any kind of flash you can put on top of the 5DMkII, you could also use the built-in "dumb" optical slave mode of the FL-50R to trip it remotely, but given that the 5DMkII doesn't have a pop-up flash, this may not be useful advice.
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Yes. For manual off-camera flash, a basic manual radio trigger should work with the Canon 5D Mark II and Olympus FL-50R because both use an ISO-compatible hot shoe and can fire from the center sync pin.
The key point is to use a manual-only trigger (or use a TTL-capable trigger in manual mode). Do not expect Canon TTL/eTTL communication with the Olympus flash; treat it as a simple manual flash setup.
You could also trigger the FL-50R with its optical slave mode if you have another flash available to fire it, but the 5D Mark II has no built-in pop-up flash, so radio triggering is usually the more practical option here.
Look for a trigger described as a standard manual hot-shoe radio trigger with center-pin firing.
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