THIS IS A TEST. PLEASE DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SCREEN.
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This is a test of my new (late July 2025) micro 4/3s (MFT) Olympus OM-5 MK-2 with a 14-150mm zoom lens. I took some photos with it last August at the fire tower, but Lightroom/Photoshop did not yet have the OM-5 system in the data base.
Finally, the last Lightroom/Photoshop update that I did added the OM-5/2 to the program profiles. This is the first image from the OM-5 that I have processed using my full, normal workflow of Lightroom => Photoshop => Topaz. I'm happy.
The OM-5 Mk-2 cameras is MUCH smaller and lighter than my other mirrorless digital cameras (mainly the Fujifilm GFX-100S, the Sony A7R3/4/5 and the Sony A1). I decided I needed a lighter, more waterproof camera when we hiked down to Thor's Well on the Oregon coast last June (with a Sony camera rig), in a cold, hard rain. Sony's are notoriously hydrophobic.
A woman that we met at the Thor's Well observation point had an Olympus OM-5 and she seemed impervious to the rain. She talked it up, so I studied up on the camera. I now have a new go-to, walking-around camera and lens.
I probably should have cleaned up this image a bit, but it's Sunday morning and I'm lazy.
Bitterroot Range - Idaho Panhandle National Forest - August 7, 2025
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I'm curious - what would you have tweaked if it wasn't Sunday morning? 
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In this image, I see a few sharpening (Topaz) artifacts on a flag stripe. This is cropped 1X1 at about 13"X13" and 300px/in. I haven't tried, but I think that Topaz Photo AI could easily enlarge this to 26X26 or 30X30.
Topaz Photo AI does a great job enlarging (they call in enhancing), assuming that there is something there to work with. My drone, for example, renders a smallish JPEG file, which I convert to DNG during the import to Lightroom. If I want a particularly good image printed for my gallery, I can usually enhance by 2X (10X15 = 20X30 inches).
But Topaz Photo AI can be used for just noise reduction (the best!) and/or sharpening, or super focus (helpful when applied to specific areas, IMO). My old MacBook Pro (2020) would not run Super Focus, but my new MacBook Pro with the M4 chip runs it very fast. Photo AI is just about the only program in the Topaz suite that I use anymore, but I use it very often.
I also use Nik Collection 6. I've used Nik since about 2010, when it was free. So my normal workflow is Camera =>Lightroom => Photoshop =>Nik Color Efex or Silver Efex =>Topaz Photo AI. If it is a particularly unique photo with flaws, I might take it into Topaz Studio and do work there with abstract and/or immpressionist filters (which can be fun).
