Olympus Evolt E-500 Digital SLR is compatible with iPhoto?

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Olympus Evolt E-500 Digital SLR is compatible with iPhoto?

Does anyone know if the Olympus Evolt E-500 Digital SLR is compatible with iPhoto ( I do not want to have to use Olympus software)? I know it is not listed on the official Apple list but am curious if anyone could speak from experience. I am looking at purchasing a digital SLR and am considering the Evolt E-500 but would like to understand its compatibility with iPhoto.

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jan 3, 2006 7:27 PM

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Old Toad

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Jan 3, 2006 8:13 PM in response to mlh

If it is not directly you can always use a card reader to upload from. That's a preferred (IMO) safer and faster (if you have a FW card reader) way. Saves wear and tear on the expensive camera.

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Rachel

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Jan 4, 2006 3:16 PM in response to mlh

If it helps any, my Olympus Evolt E-300 works great with iPhoto 5, and I can't imagine that the software has changed in the 500. I'm afraid I haven't tried RAW, but other formats work fine.

Rachel.

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Jan 6, 2006 6:20 PM in response to mlh

RAW ORF files will not work as of yet. JPEG and TIFF are okay. I have CS2 and had to download a RAW beta from Adobe to process my RAW files. I knw that my friend had problems with CR2 files (Canon 350D) when Tiger was at 10.4.2. He would see the thumbnails in finder column view but Preview and iPhoto before the last update would not work. When 10.4.3 came all is well; so I ma hoping 10.4.4 will let us use ORF RAW files fromour E500. If you get a chance check out the forums at www.dpreview.com and the Olympus DSLR forum and the MAC tools forum. When I got my E500 I started shooting RAW right away. You will find more control in processing the the RAW to jpeg. Hope this helps.

Ciao,
Lou Cioccio

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mlh Author

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Mar 3, 2006 1:33 PM in response to Louis Cioccio2

Thanks. I went out to www.dpreview.com and Olympus.com and (per your comment) understand that RAW is still not supported. As far as JPEG and TIFF go, it appears that iPhoto will work but transferring them from camera to Mac is somewhat manual (requires a bit more drag and drop than from other makers).

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