Adobe updates Photoshop Lightroom, Camera Raw with new camera and lens support

 

 

Last month, Adobe issued release candidates of several updates for Photoshop Lightroom, Camera Raw and DNG Converter. Those updates have now been finalized, squashing another raft of bugs and adding support for a healthy selection of new cameras and lenses, as well as a couple of camcorders.

As is often the case, in finalizing the updates Adobe has also added support for various products that weren't compatible with the release candidates, and fixed more bugs. (We've bolded these recent changes below.)

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

• Lightroom 4.3

  • Windows

  • Macintosh

• Camera Raw 7.3

  • No direct download available; use the built-in updater in Adobe Photoshop CS6

• DNG Converter 7.3

  • Windows

  • Macintosh

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

• Canon EOS 6D

• Canon PowerShot S110

• Canon PowerShot G15

• Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

• Casio Exilim EX-ZR1000

• Casio Exilim EX-FC300S

• Leica M-E

• Nikon 1 V2

• Nikon D5200

• Nikon D600 (full support; preliminary support was in Lightroom 4.2 / Camera Raw 7.2)

• Olympus PEN E-PL5

• Olympus PEN E-PM2

• Olympus STYLUS XZ-2 iHS

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3

• Pentax K-5 II

• Pentax K-5 IIs

• Pentax Q10

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1

• Sony NEX-VG30

• Sony NEX-VG900

 

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

Bugs fixed in Lightroom 4.3 include the following:

• Autolayout produces a Book with the correct amount of pages but without any images added. Please note that this only occurs when the filter is set to "Unused."

• Uploading large panorama images to Revel caused Lightroom to crash.

• The "Unused" filter was not properly filtering images within the Book Module.

• Lightroom hangs while changing the Exposure adjustment by typing in a numeric adjustment. Please note that this only occurs when the Enter key is not typed to confirm the adjustment and another Develop adjustment is tried. Also please note that this only occurs on Windows.

• After creating a new folder in Lightroom, attempting to undo that folder can sometimes cause a corrupt catalog.

• An image can be simultaneously flagged as both a Pick and Reject at the same time.

• Using multiple colors within a single text cell within the Book Module can cause Lightroom to crash.

• Unable to post photos to Flickr when the image filename contains an apostrophe.

• The active Develop slider, the one controlled with + and – keys, defaults to Exposure when moving from one photo to another.

• Catalogs from Photoshop Elements 11 would not update in Lightroom.

• Site titles longer than 70 characters created in the Web Module can cause Lightroom to freeze.

• Cell padding linking lost between sessions.

• Deleting the top image in a stack causes the entire stack to disappear.

• Tethered capture fails when turning camera off and back on. This also can occur if the camera goes to sleep and then wakes. This occurs only with Canon cameras and on Mac only.

• Cropping an image to a small size sometimes causes the image in Develop to become blurry.

• AVCHD video formats are not properly importing into Lightroom. Please note that this only occurred on Mac.

• Enable Profile Corrections does not auto find iPhone 4 profile.

• Crop doesn’t update in second monitor if navigator panel closed. Please note that this only occurred on Mac.

• TIFF files can experience tonal shifts within Lightroom.

• Mask overlay are displayed in filmstrip and navigator. They should only be displayed in the Develop Loupe.

• Video files created on an iPhone 4 flickers when played in Lightroom.

 

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

For Camera Raw 7.3, three bugs were found and corrected.

• Lens correction does not auto find iPhone 4 profile

• TIFF files can experience tonal shifts within Lightroom

• Bridge is unable to show TIFF files

Finally, a long list of lenses are newly supported by both Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3. These are as follows:

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