JohnS wrote:

As digital cameras are capable of firmware updates, I assume that their
basic program is stored in something akin to "flash ram". How long
does the program last in this memory before it starts getting "soft"
bits and becomes unreliable? Some rumours I've heard say 10 years.
Does anyone have any authoritive info?
Thanks.

I am not aware that all digital cams can have their firmware upgraded,
or at least I've never seen an upgrade for either of my point and
shoot Olympus cams. If you don;t get any joy try rec.photo.digital as
they're hot on SLR over there and I would assume a fair few will have
knowledge of firmware
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