Adobe ships Lightroom 5.6, Camera Raw 8.6 Nikon D810, Panasonic GH4 and FZ1000 support

 

 

A fortnight ago, we told you about new release candidate versions of Adobe's Photoshop Camera Raw and DNG Converter. Today, Adobe brings both to final release status, as well as a new Lightroom update. This last adds support for the same three cameras as in the Camera Raw and DNG Converter release candidates: the Nikon D810, Panasonic GH4 and Panasonic FZ1000. 

As well as these newly-supported cameras, the Camera Raw update brings camera-matching color profiles for the Sony A7S, RX100 III, and A77 II. Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 8.6 also includes profiles for 21 new lenses on seven different mounts, three more than were included in the release candidate. The full selection of newly-supported lens models in Camera Raw 8.6 and Lightroom 5.6 follows below:

• Canon EF-mount:

  • Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM

  • Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM * Known bug -- this profile won't be automatically detected. Manually select the profile and choose "Save New Lens Profile Defaults".

  • Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010E

  • Tamron 18-200 f/3.5-6.3 DiIII VC B011EM

• Nikon 1-mount:

  • ​Nikon 1 NIKKOR VR 70-300mm f/4.5 – 5.6

• ​Nikon F-mount:

  • ​Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N

• ​Pentax K-mount:

  • ​Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM A013

• ​Phase One:

  • ​Schneider Kreuznach LS 40-80mm f/4.0-5.6

• ​Sony Alpha-mount:

  • ​Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM A013

  • Sony 28mm f/2.8

  • Sony 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye

  • Sony 100mm f/2.8 MACRO

  • Sony DT 16-105mm f/3.5-5.6

  • Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3

  • Sony DT 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3

  • Sony 70-200mm f/2.8G

  • Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM

  • Sony 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G SSM

  • Sony 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G SSM II

  • Sony 135mm f/2.8 [T4.5] STF

  • Sony 300mm f/2.8 G SSM II

• ​Sony E-mount

  • ​Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M

if you're a Photoshop Creative Cloud subscriber with a 64-bit system, Camera Raw 8.6 also brings improved performance when batch-processing images. The same is true when converting files with DNG Converter 8.6 on 64-bit systems, although no Creative Cloud subscription is needed for this.

Bug fixes in Camera Raw 8.6 correct the following, as per the release candidate:

• A launch crash on some High DPI systems.

• A crash when opening certain raw files from the Sigma SD9.

• Incorrect formatting of JPEG images saved by Camera Raw, preventing some external apps from opening the images.

• .3FR-format Raw images from the Hasselblad H5D-50c and H5D-60 appeared too dark. Existing images may need to be reprocessed after the Camera Raw cache is purged.

• Automatic lens profile selection didn't work for the Leica M (Typ 240) with current firmware installed.

A couple of bugs in the release candidate itself have also been squashed. The Adobe Standard color profile should now work correctly for the Nikon D810, while Nikon D810 and D4S sraw files should now correctly convert to DNG format. Lightroom 5.6, meanwhile, includes no new features beyond the added camera support, but as with the previous release, fixes a raft of bugs. These are as follows:

• Collections with a custom sort order would sometimes not properly sync with Lightroom mobile.

• Updated the "Adobe Standard" color profile for the Nikon D810.  Please note that this only impacts customers who used Camera Raw 8.6 or DNG Converter 8.6 to convert NEF raw files from the D810 to DNG

• Star ratings set in Lightroom mobile did not properly sync to Lightroom desktop.  Please note that this only occurred on images that were added to Lightroom mobile from the camera roll

• Resolved the issues causing the persistent “Syncing … images” state that some of our customers have reported.”

• Star ratings would sometimes not sync from Lightroom desktop to Lightroom mobile.  Please note that this only occurred when attempting to sync a Collection that contained more than 100 photos that already contained star ratings.

• Added information to the “System Info” dialogue to help designate if the customer installed Lightroom from the Creative Cloud.

• Unable to open sRaw files from the Nikon D810.  Please note that this only impacted customers that converted D810 sRaw files to DNG in either Camera Raw 8.6 RC or DNG Converter 8.6 RC.

• Images with invalid GPS coordinates would not properly sync with Lightroom mobile

• Lightroom occasionally crashed when changing image selection on Windows. Please note that this only occurred on the Windows platform.

• JPEG files exported from Lightroom would not open or be available to edit within Canon Digital Photo Professional application software.

• Lightroom would run in reduced functionality mode when it should not.

You can get the updates for all three apps at the links below:

• Windows

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6

  • Adobe DNG Converter 8.6

  • Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw should be updated through the Creative Cloud application, or through Help :: Updates in Photoshop for CS6 users. Direct download links for offline installations are not yet available.

• Mac OS

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6

  • Adobe DNG Converter 8.6

  • Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw should be updated through the Creative Cloud application, or through Help :: Updates in Photoshop for CS6 users. Direct download links for offline installations are not yet available.