>
>> Which is why I'm going to do the comparison as post-processing TIF
>>files can be done with any graphics software, whereas ORF (Olympus RAW
>>Format) cannot. The remark about RAW files being unprocessed is right in
>>the E-500 manual on page 180, E-510 manual on pages 45 and 109, and in
>>the E-520 manual on page 135.
>
>Yes, ORF is an Olympus Raw Format file but TIF is not a raw file
>format, it is a graphics file that has been processed from the raw
>output of the sensor, where as the ORF file (is in a generalised
>manner), a screen capture of the actual sensor output with no
>processing applied.
>
I'm going to again disagree here. In the E-500, an ORF file is 13.6M,
whereas a TIFF file is 24M. Since the sensor itself has approximately 8MP and
3 bytes/pixel (or 1 byte/colour/pixel or 24 bits/pixel), the dead-nuts raw data
from the sensor is approximately 24M, the same size as the TIFF file. That
being the case, I'm making a safe assumption that the TIFF format is the
ultimate RAW format (no compression and hopefully no processing), whereas the
ORF file is slightly compressed (but no processing).
I revisited my B&W experiments from last year and looked at the few ORF
files I had saved. I exported one as 16-bit TIFF (resulting in a 58M file) and
viewed it in Corel PhotoPaint and DxO FilmPack. The resolution was nice and
crisp, but I would like to be able to bypass the ORF-to-TIFF conversion and
record the same image as TIFF.
This may seem like a lot of work, but I am determined to find some way of
overcoming the problems associated with taking digital B&W photos with glass
Wratten filters. Yes, I can presently do so by taking the best possible colour
photo and then post-processing with FilterSim and DxO Filmpack, but I would
really like to return to the hard-won expertise of taking good filtered N&W
photos in the field.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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