I've used it since the 2018 model. It was okay until the latest undate (4.3). It wouldn't go so I removed it and tried to reinstall it. But NO version of 4 would install and neither would Luminar 3. Now the only working model I have is the 2018. So far all I've received from their support is generic instructions on how to install 4.3 -- that which I cannot do.

I prefer cloning to backup -- I've been surprised with a failed backup when I expected it to work. I have used Acronis successfully in the past as it came free with WD harddrives. Now I use (free) Minitool Partition Wizard. Seems to clone just as good.

You have it backwards. All Olympus have in-body stabilization, only a few of the latest Panasonics do

Olympus OM's used thin foam rubber strips to keep light from entering the film chamber. The foam disintegrated over time -- at least it did in the four that I own, all sourced from different parts of the country. (But it can be fixed cheaply as a DIY if you buy new foam strips). The OM-10 is the cheapest model of the OM series and is not worth much although it is a great camera. The lens you quoted is not collectable and also worth little. The flash likely has no value. When checking prices on eBay always check what things sell for, not the asking price.

I have most all of the popular photo programs -- I like to play and contrast one against the other. If I had to get rid of all but one, ACDSee would be the one I would save. Familiarity gives it extra points for me (I've been using it since it was free) but it is also just plain a very good program and I am always surprised that it is not discussed much on here. There are different levels of it -- you need the more advanced for all the bells and whistles. And that one costs about $60 plus on sale -- twice that at full price.

There has to be a way. I have silkypix developer studio 7 and their jpeg photography 9. I can't remember how I did it, but I bought from them twice so it isn't impossible. And no, I don't read Japanese.

If you mean that corporations wrongfully avoid taxes by moving offshore, you are correct as being ONE reason to move. Another is they don't have to pay anything for employee health insurance as the more advanced countries have universal health insurance and the more primitive countries don't have it and don't require it. But if "taxes" was the main concern the corporations would simply move to the Canary islands and stay there. (as some do) But they continue to move their production facilities from one country to another, always chasing the lowest cost of labor. That's why so many "Japanese" cameras (and batteries) are no longer made in high labor cost Japan. The American pharmaceutical industry moved production to Puerto Rico for having cheaper labor than mainland U.S. and qualifying for an extremely low tax rate. As soon as that tax benefit expired, they moved drug production to lower labor cost China, where it remains today -- to our detriment. Bottom line is: it's not "about taxes" or any other single thing. It's about MAXIMUM PROFIT for the shareholders and damn the cost to society.

I was responding to the person who used the word "naive" and thought I was calling him a liar. I'll bet you did have to do a lot of searching since the manufacturers don't want you to know where they are making them these days. My information on where the various cameras I mentioned were made did not come from any research beyond picking them up off my shelf and reading the labels. Of course it is only relevant to exactly when they were made. I'm personally not invested in one country over another. I understand they don't make Kodaks in Rochester anymore -- and even back then their better cameras and components were made in Germany. Fifty plus years ago I was a Yamaha motorcycle dealer and had to regularly contend with the generational disputes between the kids who wanted a Yamaha and the fathers who would die before they bought anything made in Japan. The most humorous part of that argument came when they said they would never buy a cycle from a county we went to war against so they were headed out for the Harley Davidson dealer. I'd laugh up my sleeve while suggesting they be sure to ask the Harley dealer where the (at the time popular) HD Sprint was made.

The storage capacity of a battery is in large part determined by the size of the innards. I expect camera manufacturers get pretty close to the maximum capacity they can stuff into a particular sized shell -- competition being what it is. (which is why they bring out new, larger batteries for newer cameras) So if you see a battery claiming to have twice the juice of the identical OEM battery, it is HIGHLY unlikely. And if they lie about that, I wouldn't trust anything else they say. I happily buy 3rd party, but not from companies trying to sell me a dream.

I much prefer your word "naive" to liar or fraud. Canon does make cameras in Japan, And China. And Malaysia. And I'm sure where ever else they can find a cheap labor market. Just like Nikon, etc., etc. I don't have any particular preference for where my cameras are made, only that they are made well. If you prefer Japanese factories, you can be happy you have a camera that was Made in Japan.

You must have some very old equipment -- or only top-of-the-line. Or you can't read the fine print and think "designed in . . . " means the same as "mfg in . . . ". Most of my Nikon's and Sony's are made in Thailand or Vietnam. My Olympus's, Panasonic's and Pentax's are from China or the Philippine's. Only my pre-21st century film equipment comes from Japan. I'll let you answer your own question regarding who is naive.

It is exactly the kind of thinking that causes international corporations to move their manufacturing from one cheap country to the next . . . and then on to the next country when it can beat the cost. . . etc. It's called Capitalism and its all about profits, not batteries. Have you checked where your latest "Japanese" camera was made?

I have owned a lot of cameras and probably three times as many batteries, all of which I bought on line from reputable companies such as Wasabi. All have charged and run just fine, but I would pass on the super-cheap ones out there. I've read countless warnings about non-OEM batteries swelling and ruining your camera. The only time I ever had that happen it WAS an OEM (Olympus). And it was 9 years old. And it didn't take much fiddling to get it out of the camera. I also buy non-OEM printers ink, some of my lenses come from independent companies and almost none of my clothing is Brand Name.

Broadly speaking, sellers set the price of items when new, buyers set the price once they have been used.

After being burned too many times by the New York Camera store of the 1960's and 70's I swore off mail-order for good. But then I tried Cameta about 20 years ago and was pleasantly surprised they were honest and delivered what they advertised. I have done business with them since -- always a great experience. But life changes and so do we. Sorry to see them go. Gland we still have The "A" and the "B" of it, along with KEH and MPB -- all run the way we wish all businesses were run.