Saved raw from my E-520 camera.

[Ross the fiddler]

I was about to reply to a FB post with one on my photos after editing afresh, but it updated & disappeared, however, after finding my photos of "The Three Sisters, the other side" saved as ORF from my old E-520 taken back in 2009 I put it through Capture One 22 (I refused to pay for anymore updates), so this is the result from original JPEG to edited raw file today.
This is just an example of keeping those ORF files (I always save JPEG & RAW too though) so one day you might want to revisit those old files.


To this edited image (from raw).



E-520 with 14-54 II lens at 54.0mm, f3.5, ISO 100, 1/640 sec.
taken 13/09/2009

[Ross the fiddler]

This is the normal view everybody takes (taken with E-30 2015).


Or this with E-M1 II with 12-40 f2.8 lens in 2018

[Ian]

Raw files mature like fine wine 😃

Ian

[Ross the fiddler]

Raw files mature like fine wine 😃

Ian

No, they stay the same, but the photograper either matures like fine wine or old cheese! That is, becomes "smoother" or just "old & mouldy".
I think it is great with newer software when old photos are revisited that sometimes more can be extracted from them. Sadly, there was nothing left in the blown highlights of this one though.