I-Photo 6 Olympus RAW Images

I just purchased an Olympus E-Volt 500 SLR Digital camera. I am currently running I-Photo 5 and it will not support the RAW (.orf) images from my camera. I am considering upgrading to I-Photo 6 but need to know if it will import the RAW images. Does anyone have an answer to that or does Apple?

Hi from the UK
I have an E-300 (the Evolt name is not used here) which uses the .orf RAW file format. One of the benefits of upgrading to iLife 6 is that iPhoto 6 now supports the format. I am surprised you can't use it - I would have thought the .orf format was the same irrespective of which Olympus D-SLR it was generated in. Might be worth asking Olympus - for instance I downloaded an upgrade from the Olympus website (http://www.olympus-europa.com/consumer/208_495.htm) to enable PS Elements 3 to read the orf. file.
Regards
Andy
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