New Olympus ORF

I recently bought the Olympus C-7000 and, except for one thing, I think the
camera is great. Apparently Olympus uses a different RAW (ORF) format from
previous Olympus cameras. My software, PhotoShop, is capable of reading RAW
from C-5060 and C-8080 cameras, but I can not open one from the C-7000. The
supplied Olympus Master software offers no conversion to another RAW format
either.

Is anyone else experiencing this and how are you getting around it?




xDsrtRat

I just got off the phone with Olympus Tech Support. Olympus acknowledges
there is a difference between this version of ORF and previous iterations.
As of now, there is no PhotoShop Plugin available from Olympus that would
allow PhotoShop users to view the ORF image. Best guess for availability is
first quarter of 2005. While not that far off, I think Olympus missed the
mark by not having the plugin available with the camera's release.


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> I recently bought the Olympus C-7000 and, except for one thing, I think
the
> camera is great. Apparently Olympus uses a different RAW (ORF) format from
> previous Olympus cameras. My software, PhotoShop, is capable of reading
RAW
> from C-5060 and C-8080 cameras, but I can not open one from the C-7000.
The
> supplied Olympus Master software offers no conversion to another RAW
format
> either.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this and how are you getting around it?
>
>