I've bought an Olympus E-300 Camera It...
I've bought an Olympus E-300 Camera
It is a very good camera but... I have no way to directly open MY RAW photographs from my preferred program (Gimp on linux).
I have to switch back to windows and open Olympus special software ONLY to get a TIFF/JPEG copy.
It's a serious inconvenience for me. It's no reasonable.
It is perfectly reasonable for photographers to use whatever...
It is perfectly reasonable for photographers to use whatever tools they like. That may include raw converters, operating systems, photo-editors, etc.
We need to resist views that would force people to use a more restricted set of tools. Let's open things up, not close things down!
This means that we should converge on a common raw format that can be supported by lots of tools, running on lots of operating systems.
The only known answer is DNG.
We want lots of converters, tools, systems, scripts, etc, all supporting DNG. We want camera makers either to support DNG themselves, or provide sufficient documentation for others to write high-quality DNG converters.
Let's promote DNG and make this whole topic go away!
Hm. I really don't know how
Hm. I really don't know how to respond reasonably to this. It's been some time since the original post so I do hope that he was able to resolve his problem. This reply shows that they simply do not understand what the issues are. And no amount of trying to explain them is going to help.
Windows $50 Linux $0
Photoshop $75 Gimp $0
Locked IN $125 Choice $priceless
Hello, I'm new here and I am
Hello,
I'm new here and I am sorry if this comment didn't go as an reply to the buyer of Olympus E-300 (the forum's UI is a bit confusing).
I don't know what linux you are using, but I'm sure you can get your E-300 supported. I have the olympus E-1 (and ubuntu linux), install packages dcraw, ufraw, gimp-ufraw and if you're using gnome, gnome-raw-thumbnailer. That way you even see previews of raw images on the file browser, also you can use gimp to open raw images. It will use ufraw to convert the raws first.
You can see the list of the cameras dcraw (and ufraw) support at the end of this page: http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
- Sampo
Well make things easier for yourself by switching to Windows...
Well make things easier for yourself by switching to Windows - then you can use the Olympus RAW software directly in Windows. You can even install Photoshop and import 'ORF' files directly into it with the free Olympus plug-in. Don't blame Olympus for your "serious inconvenience". Most of the world uses Windows so that's what Olympus and all the other major camera makers support -- and that is reasonable in my view!