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Hi,
I have imported in Apple Photos the photos that I have taken with my new Olympus EM1 Mark III and the ones shot in RAW (.orf) appear as grey placeholders in the library, while jpegs work perfectly. How can I use Apple Photo with .orf files?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
You can try using the free Adobe Digital Negative Converter which converts many of the RAW formats to a digital negative format that Photos can use.
Note: you can quickly check which RAW formats your system supports by holding down the Option key and using the ➙ System Information menu item. In the sidebar select RAW Support and look for your camera. When an update is released you can do that to check to see if your camera is now supported.
You can try using the free Adobe Digital Negative Converter which converts many of the RAW formats to a digital negative format that Photos can use.
Note: you can quickly check which RAW formats your system supports by holding down the Option key and using the ➙ System Information menu item. In the sidebar select RAW Support and look for your camera. When an update is released you can do that to check to see if your camera is now supported.
Your Mac is not on the list of compatible models for Big Sur: macOS Big Sur is compatible with these computers - Apple Support You would need at least a late 2013 model.
Either use the Adobe DNG Converter, recommend by OT, or use the software that came with your camera to develop the RAW files. Or set the camera to shoot the the photos in another lossless format, for example TIFF.
Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
If the problem persists after the above let us know if you've ever installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac.
I have checked and apparently Catalina also supports RAW from Olympus EM-1 Mark III. Nonetheless, the RAW pictures would not display on Photo (see screenshot). Thus, the system is in principle capable of processing such RAW files. Is it a Photo issue? Is there something I need to do to solve the problem?
Hi
Do you have catalina as stated? In which case your camera is not supported by that version. You would need to upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur to get support for the Mark 3
Hi - thank you for replying. I have a MacBook Pro late 2012, I’m not sure I can get BigSur…in which case, what can I do?
Note, in case you are worried. DNG is also a raw format, so still has all the raw information in your original files. No developing is done by the converter.
The newest system that your model iMac can run is Catalina 10.15.7.
Indeed. But as you can see from my screenshot above, Catalina do supports EM-1 Mark III RAW. So I’m wondering why Photos does not.
Do you have raw options available like compression? Apple might not be able to handle those.
Olympus .ORF RAW files not supported by Photo
