40-150 f2.8 bricked by EM1mkii

nebulla wrote:

Okapi001 wrote:

Aberaeron wrote:

Firstly check out the update procedure again. Carefully.

You can do absolutely nothing with the bricked lens. The camera don't know there is a lens attached and you cannot initiate the update procedure. AFAIK the only way is to send the lens to the Olympus for repair.

It happend to me a few weeks ago with the 300mm (I think computer lost USB connection during the upgrade). The repair was covered by the warranty, so no real harm done (and they cleaned the lens for free;-) . But I will check what happens to the bricked lens after the extended warranty expires, and if the repair is not free, I will never try to upgrade it myself. It seems it's all too easy for something to go wrong.

Don't know if it would make any difference, but I can't understand why an innovative company such as Olympus has not figured out a way to do firmware through memory cards rather than connecting your camera to your computer by USB. All that you need at the time of upgrade is a power failure to make all of your gear a pile of garbage.

Must say that I upgraded two different Panasonic bodies, a G7 and GX80, this morning, plus two 14-140 lenses, using the SD card method with no problem whatsoever. The biggest issue I had was disabling the pop-up blocker on the Chrome browser, which I knew to be essential to the process from previous experience.