Several professional photographers who teach use of OM System (nee “Olympus”) cameras and lenses recommend recording photos on camera in raw file format as a default. These are called “ORFs”. Any OMD camera can be set to do that. I use an OM-5 camera for nearly anything these days but I have done a lot of bryological photography with the TG-6 model. In fact I have two of those.

I publish most of my photos on the Web as JPEGs, however. So given that all I have are ORFs, how do I get JPEGs?

There are a number of options. For example the MOVAVI software company offers an online conversion service for the purpose.

However both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom offer a means of doing the same. Many photographers have both Lightroom and Photoshop and use Adobe’s online photo storage as well. I use the latter but most of my photo storage is right now with Google Photos.

Anyway here is a set of photographs taken with the OM-5, a Laowa 50mm lens and a neutral density filter (= 0.9). These were taken and stored as ORFs then converted to JPEGs using Photoshop before being uploaded for presentation here.