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40-150 f2.8 bricked by EM1mkii

Started Jan 14, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP Photo Pete Veteran Member • Posts: 5,430
Re: 40-150 f2.8 bricked by EM1mkii
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MicekyVee wrote:

The same thing happened to me a couple of months ago with my 40-150 Pro. Unless the updater can see the lens, you're bricked. If it still can, you can try the update again. Fortunately mine was still under warranty and the Olympus Service Centre is a 5 minute drive from me. Had it back in a couple of days.

Good Luck!

Thank-you all for the replies.

It seems like the lens is well and truly bricked. The updater cannot see the lens anymore so I have no way to start the update process again. I certainly don't like the idea of hacking the update with a SD card in the camera (particularly not with the new EM1mkii being the camera!).

Olympus warranty for the 40-150 is in place until June 2017 so it will have to go back for a warranty repair. Hopefully it will be repaired without any undue hassle, although I have a football match to shoot tomorrow and I'm a bit p****d of at having to shoot it with the 75-300 rather than the 40-150 and mc-14.

What a stupid way to carry out updates. Why do Olympus force us to risk communication errors when they could have an official system to update from SD cards instead?

Several of my other lenses are waiting for firmware updates and I'm too nervous to try doing them now.

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