Adobe Updates Lightroom, Camera Raw, DNG Converter
By
Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource
(Friday, September 14, 2007 - 11:17 EDT)
The products are updated together to ensure Raw format settings compatibility.
Adobe has released Lightroom 1.2, Camera Raw 4.2 and DNG Converter 4.2 to support 14 new cameras. The products are updated together to ensure Raw format settings compatibility.
New camera support includes:
• Canon EOS 40D
• Fuji FinePix IS-1
• Leaf Aptus 17
• Leaf Aptus 54s
• Leaf Aptus 75s
• Olympus EVOLT E-510
• Panasonic DMC-FZ18
• Pentax K100D Super
• Phase One P 20 +
• Phase One P 21 +
• Phase One P 25 +
• Phase One P 30 +
• Phase One P 45 +
• Sony A700
Canon EOS 1D Mark III sRaw format is not yet suppported by Camera Raw and DNG Converter.
Noise reduction has been adjusted for all cameras with a Bayer Pattern sensor. "The base point noise reduction applied at the demosaic stage of raw processing has been reduced," according to Tom Hogarty's Lightroom Journal. "The resulting effect is that images with zero luminance noise reduction applied in Camera Raw 4.2 will contain more noise than the identical settings in Camera Raw 4.1 but less noise than identical settings in Camera Raw 4.0. (This Applies to Lightroom 1.2 as well.)"
Lightroom 1.2 Changes
Changes to Lightroom from the previous version include:
• Lightroom 1.1 catalogs with user-specified sort order could not be imported into another catalog
• Lightroom 1.1 for Windows could at times display gray boxes instead of image thumbnails
• Lightroom 1.1 for Windows could at times display gray boxes instead of image thumbnails
• The preference to write XMP metadata automatically in Lightroom 1.1 could attempt to write metadata indefinitely for offline images causing significant performance problems
• Images could be dropped from the Quick Collection upon reordering of the source folder
• Catalogs could not be exported to drives smaller than 250-MB
• The Web Module was not accessible in Lightroom 1.1 on the Macintosh platform when Lightroom was installed on case-sensitive volumes such as the Case Sensitive HFS+ (Journaled) volume
• Errors occurred exporting to a Linux SMB network volume
• Scroll position in the grid view was not maintained when changing the view option using the J shortcut key
• The tokens for image number and image count were not displaying properly in the Slide Show module
• The metadata panel could display incorrectly on Windows
• Slide Shows on the Macintosh platform did not display properly when a 256-MB ATI graphics card was connected to 30 " LCD
• The Lightroom 1.1 Web module export did not position the copyright tag in the same location displayed in the preview
• The auto-eject functionality on Windows ejected the card reader device in addition to the card
• 1:1 previews were not discarded according to the timing set in the Lightroom preferences
• 1:1 previews are not built for an entire set of images when requested after import
Downloads
Mac 12.1-MB Camera Raw and DNG Converter download: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3733
Windows 3.2-MB Camera Raw and DNG Converter download: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3730
Mac 40.8-MB Lightroom 1.2 download: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3727
Windows 47.2-MB Lightroom 1.2 download: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3728
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