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skippersworld

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I see alot of people shoot using this format, mine comes out in two formats, ORF and Jpeg! Am i better off shooting in RAW if so why is that? Thanks!
 
ORF is the Olympus Raw Format.

Personally I shoot nothing else but RAW. The RAW format maintains all the detail that was shot by the camera, a camera JPEG has a lot of this information discarded when the JPEG is produced.

OK you need you image editing program to handle RAW but many do now anyway.

Rather than write a lot on RAW I'm posting a link to some one who's a much better authority on RAW than I am.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/u-raw-files.shtml

Michael Reichmann is a Canadian photographer, who has a serious reputation in Fine Art Photography and printing, and talks a lot of sense.
 
I always shoot raw. I recently had to shoot an event day in JPEG and it was horrible not having the room to change things after. I'll never go back to JPEG.
 
Oh ok so ORF is the RAW format for an olympus camera? When i try to open this file with Photoshop it doesn't work? it says can not complete request as its not the right kind of document?!?
 
skippersworld said:
Oh ok so ORF is the RAW format for an olympus camera? When i try to open this file with Photoshop it doesn't work? it says can not complete request as its not the right kind of document?!?
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There are different raw files per camera so go on the Adobe site and download the raw converter for your camera,its free
 
Now downloading, so do i use that program to convert the ORF file into a raw file or something else?
 
Right ive downloaded what you said but how do i get it to work lol? Not very good at this as u can tell!
 
You'll need the dng converter, I don't think the camera raw update for CS supports your model.
Download the dng converter, convert your ORF to DNG and CS should open thos as raw files.
Virtualfunker the latest acr update for CS4 is 5.4RC, not 4.6, thats for CS3.
 
The 4 series are for CS3 the 5 series are for CS4, the 5's have features the 4's don't, they are not usually compatable with each other (haven't actually tried it though) Wayne
 
The versions of ACR are not backward compatibly. You have to use the correct series for the version of Photoshop you have. However the latest version of DNG converter is not Photoshop version aware as it is a standalone converter. Convert your files to DNG and Phtooshop will open them
 
No RAW conversaion software with the camera? I will be using ViewNX (which came with my Nikon) to begin with until i really learn what I'm doing!
 
kingy said:
No RAW conversaion software with the camera? I will be using ViewNX (which came with my Nikon) to begin with until i really learn what I'm doing!
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Yep, there is software provided on a CD with the E-410, it's not too bad either... ;)

Have you thought of taking a look at Lightroom2, you might find this does all you need. There is a trial version available for you to look at and determine if it's worth the price. Many here use it, as do I.:thumbs:
 
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