Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw, DNG Converter updates support even more cameras and lenses

 

 

Last August, Adobe issued release candidates of its upcoming updates for Camera Raw, DNG Converter, and Photoshop Lightroom. After five weeks of testing, the company has today finalized all three, with bugs aplenty squashed and support for a raft of new cameras and camera backs added.

As well as those disclosed previously, the final release versions also work with almost a dozen more cameras which hadn't been announced at the time of the release candidates' debut. The Lightroom final release also fixes quite a few more bugs, while both Lightroom and Camera Raw add support for more lenses. (We've bolded the newly-supported items throughout this article.)

First things first: If you're using any of the products, you'll doubtless want to update where eligible, so here are the links to the downloads:

• Lightroom 4.2

  • Windows

  • Macintosh

• Camera Raw 7.2

  • No download available. Use the built-in updater in Adobe Photoshop CS6

• DNG Converter 7.2

  • Windows

  • Macintosh

The list of newly-supported camera raw file types is as follows:

• Canon EOS Rebel T4i (aka EOS 650D)

• Canon EOS M

• Fujifilm XF1

• Fujifilm X-E1

• Fujifilm FinePix F800EXR

• Leaf Credo 40

• Leaf Credo 60

• Leica S (Typ 006)

• Leica D-LUX 6

• Leica V-LUX 4

• Nikon Coolpix P7700

• Nikon 1 J2

• Nikon D600 (preliminary support only, image look may change in a future release)

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7

• Pentax K-30

• Samsung EX2F

• Sony Alpha NEX-5R

• Sony Alpha NEX-6

• Sony Alpha SLT-A99 / STL-A99V

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100

 

Lightroom 4's product totem.
Image courtesy of Adobe.

Additionally, Lightroom now supports tethered shooting with another seven cameras from Canon and Nikon, as follows:

• Canon EOS REBEL T3i (aka EOS 600D / EOS Kiss X5)

• Canon EOS REBEL T3 (aka EOS 1100D / EOS Kiss X50)

• Canon EOS 5D Mark III

• Canon EOS-1D X

• Nikon D4

• Nikon D800

• Nikon D800E

Bugs squashed in Lightroom 4.2 include the following:

• Stacked photos were hidden in both the Grid view and Filmstrip. This occurred when photos get unstacked as a result of enabling auto-stacking.

• Folder stacks with virtual copies were unstacked when moving to another folder.

• When scrolling through the filmstrip (at somewhat fast rate), occasionally a “gray” image was displayed for an instant and then replaced by the correct image preview.

• The Navigator Panel in Map did not pan correctly.

• Parents and synonyms of “do not export” keywords also did not export.

• Occasionally were unable to publish videos to Facebook

• Audio did not play in video files after creating a slideshow that contains music (Win 7 only)

• Image select arrow on keyword list didn’t display when keyword list contained a large number of keywords

• Unable to edit Lightroom photos as jpegs in Photoshop Elements

• Carriage Return in either the Title or Caption field invalidated a Flickr upload.

• Tether capture bar disappeared after deleting photo (Win only).

• Back Cover of Book layout had Horizontal text on spine rather than Vertical

• Sharpening was not applied to books that were exported as JPEG files

• Double-byte characters were not exported to Books saved as PDF files

• Unable to type accented character in book module in LR4

• Luminance Noise slider was unresponsive when Clarity is greater than 0.

• Develop keyboard shortcuts (+ and – keys) no longer worked in older process versions such as PV2010

 

The product totem for Photoshop CS6.
Image provided by Adobe.

For Camera Raw 7.2, a shorter list of bugs was found and corrected. (Here, no changes have been made since the release candidate.)

• Cannot change “Erase” size, feather and flow settings while utilizing the Option key.

• Cannot write metadata to images previously opened in some 3rd party software.

• Luminance Noise slider is unresponsive when Clarity is greater than 0.

• In certain cases, the new Defringe controls can cause vertical streaks to appear.

• Some images from Canon 5D Mark II exhibited pattern noise in the form of maze/green split artifacts.

• Adjusting the Blue channel does not affect monochrome images.

• Certain TIFF files can cause Bridge to become unstable.

• Defringe settings are not retained when editing the file in Photoshop as a Smart Object and then returning to ACR.

Finally, a long list of lenses are newly supported by both Lightroom 4.2 and Camera Raw 7.2. These are as follows:

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