'A commission headed by Lew Allen, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was established to determine how the error could have arisen. Uhmm, nope - Hubble's problems were due to the incorrect assembly of a testing device. Backing up what you wrote, the programmers didn’t pick it up that centimetres and inches are two different means of measurement. The most famous and expensive lens error ever on the history of photography was the fault on the Hubble telescope. Pick the most unlikely, brain-dead, confluence of disasters scenario and it will eventually happen followed by the refrain 'how come the programmer didn't protect us from this'? However, back during my 15 years of coding experience the one lesson I came away with is that people are infinitely capable of breaking things. Of course not happy to hear that the OP has bricked his OM-1. If the update process was properly designed and engineered there would *never* be reports of this kind. It's anything but unusual for people to have problems with Olympus/OMDS firmware updates. Unusual, is there any sign of power? Did you reset the lens? Had to update firmware ,after ok showed on LCD turned camera off but it would not turn back on and is now dead.

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