I may have made some naive assumptions here, so please forgive my ignorance if so ...
I thought RAW was RAW was RAW (realising that different manufacturers use different RAW encodings), so that the RAW (in Olypmus' case, ORF) that I get out of the camera is basically an unprocessed data file, that I can use later to process ("develop"); the film analogy is that the RAW file is the negative (like all analogies, it is rather imperfect)
I know if I use "Art Filters" in the camera, the RAW file is untouched.
So, I expected that if I shot with RAW+JPEG enabled (as I always do), then the camera's own firmware will process the RAW file to produce a JPEG, but that the original RAW file will remain untouched.
I've been shooting for fun with iAuto a couple of days, but when I unload the camera, I find that if I load the RAW (ORF) into OV2 (or my demo LR3), the RAW displays exactly the same as the JPEG.
(I can undo it setting by setting, and get back to what looks like an unprocessed RAW)
So, which bit am I not understanding properly?
Or is it a shortcoming of the iAuto mode?
I use an E-P2, by the way
I thought RAW was RAW was RAW (realising that different manufacturers use different RAW encodings), so that the RAW (in Olypmus' case, ORF) that I get out of the camera is basically an unprocessed data file, that I can use later to process ("develop"); the film analogy is that the RAW file is the negative (like all analogies, it is rather imperfect)
I know if I use "Art Filters" in the camera, the RAW file is untouched.
So, I expected that if I shot with RAW+JPEG enabled (as I always do), then the camera's own firmware will process the RAW file to produce a JPEG, but that the original RAW file will remain untouched.
I've been shooting for fun with iAuto a couple of days, but when I unload the camera, I find that if I load the RAW (ORF) into OV2 (or my demo LR3), the RAW displays exactly the same as the JPEG.
(I can undo it setting by setting, and get back to what looks like an unprocessed RAW)
So, which bit am I not understanding properly?
Or is it a shortcoming of the iAuto mode?
I use an E-P2, by the way