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I believe you can use DXO for raw conversion which also has the absolutely outstanding " deep prime " noise reduction
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Why I believe Olympus/OMDS is dead/inactive
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It's even lower than that. Gartner puts Mac's 2020 worldwide market share at 8.2%.
Glen Barrington
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The raw specs are freely available, and third party support of ORFs seems strong. Why can't the mac product manager afford the $100/$200 in programming time to support ORF? Budget restraints? Is Apple the hardware equivalent of Corel?
Gartner reports that Mac's USA-only market share at only 14%.
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Phil
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I think the concept of putting RAW formats in the operating system is flawed. Goes back to when Apple was trying to sell their own RAW photo processing software such as Aperture. It was such a mess, that shooting JPEG became a solution.
I work with both PC's and MAC's. It is not just camera changes that make MAC's frustrating. They come out with a new OS and suddenly old printers will not print and getting a driver is a challenge. That said, the MAC print drivers are no match for the PC drivers.
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I work with both PC's and MAC's. It is not just camera changes that make MAC's frustrating. They come out with a new OS and suddenly old printers will not print and getting a driver is a challenge. That said, the MAC print drivers are no match for the PC drivers.
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Glen Barrington
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Updating the raw file to support a new camera is fairly simple stuff. Simple enough, that you could have an intern do it. The cost is small enough that it isn't going to show up in the bottom line at all. There is more going on than resource allocation and OMDs survival.
Nikon is still being supported. And it is at least as close to "lay-down and close your eyes, dead" as OMDS.
Iliah Borg
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You can also use a heated screwdriver instead of a soldering iron.
Right tools for the job, right people for the job.
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"DanDare" posted this comment last week:
"Here is an update.
As of today, May 4th, I've had no reply from Apple since I raised the issue back in February in a support call.
Today I called Apple Support and told them that Olympus Tech Support had assured me in early February that they had given all necessary data to enable RAW support to all the Image editing software providers so I asked why has Apple not included RAW Support in the latest version of MacOS 11.3.1 released 26th April? I also pointed out that as well as the E-M1 Mark III, none of the Olympus cameras introduced after the M1X have RAW support, the MiX was the last camera to have RAW support included in MacOS.
I ended up talking to a second level tech support person who said he would escalate this to the appropriate Engineering team and promised me a reply later this week.
It does seem strange that the M1X is the last Olympus camera to be supported and yet every other manufacturers cameras introduced after that are now supported by MacOS."
This does not appear to be a problem created by Olympus. I have no idea why Apple is dragging their feet, but it isn't just Oly that is being ignored.
"Here is an update.
As of today, May 4th, I've had no reply from Apple since I raised the issue back in February in a support call.
Today I called Apple Support and told them that Olympus Tech Support had assured me in early February that they had given all necessary data to enable RAW support to all the Image editing software providers so I asked why has Apple not included RAW Support in the latest version of MacOS 11.3.1 released 26th April? I also pointed out that as well as the E-M1 Mark III, none of the Olympus cameras introduced after the M1X have RAW support, the MiX was the last camera to have RAW support included in MacOS.
I ended up talking to a second level tech support person who said he would escalate this to the appropriate Engineering team and promised me a reply later this week.
It does seem strange that the M1X is the last Olympus camera to be supported and yet every other manufacturers cameras introduced after that are now supported by MacOS."
This does not appear to be a problem created by Olympus. I have no idea why Apple is dragging their feet, but it isn't just Oly that is being ignored.
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It's up to the camera manufacturer to provide Apple with their RAW support protocol, and Apple will gladly include them via firmware update. Sony, Canon, Fuji all seem to be doing it regularly. Olympus also used to do it prior to 2019, as all Olympus models older than the em1.X are supported on Mac and IOS.
So the one to blame here is Olympus, not Apple. We're talking about support for cameras released in 2019, more than a year before the JIP transfer (em5-3 and em1-3). The situation becomes even more absurd when you realise the em5-3 and em1-3 use the same sensor/processors as the em1-2 and em1-X, which are supported on Mac. So providing the RAW support to Apple was an easy task.
In retrospect, that's a good indicator of the level of mayhem and chaos that must have been reigning at Olympus imaging division. End of 2019 and early 2020 coincides with the first rumors popping about Olympus exiting the camera business.
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The real question is why OMDS is going through the Apple support procedure, and why the process wasn't initiated by Olympus themselves ?
Em5.3 and em1.3 were cameras released by Olympus, not OMDS.
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Was that your rumor, funnyrumormunger?
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Ot perhaps Apple is being paid by other manufacturers as in pay to play.
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So there's a conspiracy against Olympus ? Apple trying to sabotage olympus cameras ?
Glen Barrington
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You miss my point, I think. That is, the support cost of adding a new camera in an existing line is very inexpensive for most companies. I'd say all, but there is always an outlier, or two. And an unpaid intern COULD do it. You said, yourself, below, there is no difference between the two cameras under discussion.
Why do you assume it's an Olympus problem?
Adobe and DxO PhotoLab have no problems adding support for new Olympus bodies a few months after the cameras appear. Only Apple takes years.
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Well, it is obvious SOMETHING is causing Apple's reluctance for support when the rest of the industry is doing just fine. PLUS, I suspect you have no more idea of what that something is than I do! Your speculation is as much hot air as mine would be.
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I just provided evidence that OMDS HAS provided Apple with their RAW support protocol and Apple, thus far, has not included them via firmware update, gladly or not.
There is no reason to assume that Olympus didn't provide the protocol to Apple prior to the sale. It would have been standard operating procedure for them to do so. Do you have any evidence to indicate that they didn't. I don't mean conjecture.
The REAL question is why is Apple dragging their feet.
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I love my Olympus OM-D EM1-iii. More than enough camera for me. Now, here is something to chew on.
Ver 1.3 E-M1 iii update (4/6/2021) supports "USB transmission with Mac equipped with M1 chip is now supported." http://http//dl03.olympus-imaging.com/ww/ud2/ENU/0001/1390/index03a.html
Take a look at the Microsoft Developer Platform for Azure. Pretty clear where MS is headed. Turns out the best development tool for Microsoft is (drum roll...) the Apple Mac. Why? Because it is UNIX based. I've been a .NET developer since 2013 and a player in the Cloud.
As soon as Capture One supports the M1 chip, my order is going in for a loaded iMac 24.
The start of this chain is "Since the launch of Olympus em1.3, the so called flagship camera, Olympus/OMDS hasn't given Apple the RAW support of the em1.3. The software engineering department of Olympus must be completely shut down."
Apple and Olympus/OMDS will pair quite nicely. Microsoft will continue to try to layer Linux on top of Windows 10. And I'll be quite content with my new iMac
Ver 1.3 E-M1 iii update (4/6/2021) supports "USB transmission with Mac equipped with M1 chip is now supported." http://http//dl03.olympus-imaging.com/ww/ud2/ENU/0001/1390/index03a.html
Take a look at the Microsoft Developer Platform for Azure. Pretty clear where MS is headed. Turns out the best development tool for Microsoft is (drum roll...) the Apple Mac. Why? Because it is UNIX based. I've been a .NET developer since 2013 and a player in the Cloud.
As soon as Capture One supports the M1 chip, my order is going in for a loaded iMac 24.
The start of this chain is "Since the launch of Olympus em1.3, the so called flagship camera, Olympus/OMDS hasn't given Apple the RAW support of the em1.3. The software engineering department of Olympus must be completely shut down."
Apple and Olympus/OMDS will pair quite nicely. Microsoft will continue to try to layer Linux on top of Windows 10. And I'll be quite content with my new iMac
- for photo processing of my Olympus camera
- and software development for the next Microsoft project.
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No, he can't. Because of testing protocols and signatures.
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