Will JPEG still be an editable camera RAW?+
Olympus ORF needs camera- and file-aware development to produce a rendered JPEG image. White balance, exposure, camera colour interpretation and, where applicable, demosaicing determine that rendering. The destination does not retain the original RAW development latitude. No development settings or camera support are implemented yet.
Can converting Olympus ORF to JPEG reduce quality?+
Typical JPEG files are lossy. The original standard also defines a separate lossless mode; it is not the usual web or camera JPEG. Lossy encoding can change decoded colours and edges, especially in text and flat-colour graphics. It cannot recover detail or colours missing from the source. Output quality and file size depend on the future encoder settings; a smaller file is not guaranteed.
Are bit depth and colour values guaranteed to match?+
Source and target sample models can differ in precision, channel layout, colour space and transfer function. Lossless compression only preserves the samples actually encoded; a precision reduction or colour conversion can already change them. The future engine defines numeric mapping, orientation and colour conversion; canonical depth facts are listed below where available.
Will metadata and colour profiles be retained?+
Olympus ORF: Capture metadata → JPEG: Exif, ICC. Which fields are copied, rewritten or omitted will depend on the future engine; retention is not implemented yet.