More cameras, less bugs: Adobe offers release candidate trio

It's that time again, fans of the bleeding edge: Adobe has just issued release candidate versions of Camera Raw 7.2, DNG Converter 7.2, and Lightroom 4.2. All three share support for much the same raft of brand-new cameras and camera backs. The release candidates of Lightroom and Camera Raw also fix a variety of bugs found in their previous incarnations, and the latter adds support for more than two dozen lens profiles on a variety of mounts.

All three release candidates now support raw files from the following cameras:

• Canon EOS Rebel T4i (EOS 650D)

• Canon EOS M

• Fujifilm FinePix F800EXR

• Leaf Credo 40

• Leaf Credo 60

• Nikon 1 J2 (Camera Raw and DNG Converter only)

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7

• Pentax K-30

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100

 

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

Bugs fixed in Lightroom 4.2 Release Candidate include:

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

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

• Errors encountered when publishing videos to Facebook through the Facebook Publish Service

• Users may have occurred problems when trying to enter the Web Module from Library.

• Unable to edit JPEG photos in Photoshop Elements

• Unable to upload files to Flickr if there is a carriage return in either the Title or Caption fields (Win only).

• Background graphics that are applied to a Book globally may not appear as expected in a Saved PDF.

• Certain book covers had spine text positioned in a Horizontal manner, not Vertical.

• Double byte characters are not being exported to PDF in Books

• Photos were exported with original GPS coordinates recorded by the camera, not with the GPS coordinates updated in Lightroom.

• Keyboard shortcuts in the Develop module sometimes do not work when editing an image in Process Version PV2010.

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

• Audio does not play in video files after creating a slideshow containing music (Windows 7 only)

• Tether support not working for Nikon D4, D800 , and D800E (Windows only)

 

The product totem for Photoshop CS6.
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Issues fixed in Camera Raw 7.2 Release Candidate, meanwhile, are as follows:

• 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.

 

Photoshop CS6 Extended's product totem.
Image provided by Adobe.

And finally, newly-profiles lenses in Camera Raw 7.2 RC:

Shooting some of the newly-supported hardware, battling a bug that's now been squashed, or just want to try the release candidates for yourself? Visit the Camera Raw / DNG Converter 7.2 Release Candidate or Lightroom 4.2 Release Candidate pages on Adobe labs...