Adobe update adds Raw support for 6 new cameras, lens profiles

By Chase Melvin June 4, 2014

Olympus OM D E M10 front angle 4 — Adobe Camera Release 8.5 update adds support for five new cameras, including the Olympus OM-D E-M10 shown here.

Adobe has announced Camera Raw 8.5 Release Candidates, which includes support for five new digital cameras and several different lenses. This latest plug-in adds support for the Panasonic Lumix GH4, Olympus OM-D E-M10, Canon Powershot G1 X Mark II, Fujifilm FinePix S1, and Nikon’s 1 V3 and 1 J4.

Owners of these cameras will be able to edit their Raw image files natively in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop Creative Cloud, though the Camera Raw 8.5 update is still an early release candidate. Creative Cloud will get some extras. They’ll be able to apply graduated neutral density and radial filter masks with brushes, add mask visualizations to those filters, and see a new per-panel preview default toggle. This update does not include Lightroom, and it’s not officially supported on Mac OS 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), Windows XP, and Windows Vista.

Additionally, there are bug fixes, and the following lens profiles have been added to the Camera Raw 8.5 RC:

Canon EF-mount:

Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014
Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 DiII VC PZD MACRO B016E

Fujifilm X100/X100S:

Tele Conversion Lens TCL-X100

Nikon 1-mount:

Nikkor VR 10-30mm f3.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM

Nikon F-mount:

AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR
Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014
Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 DiII VC PZD MACRO B016N
Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD A011N

Pentax K-mount:

Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013

Sigma SA-mount:

Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014
Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Sony Alpha-mount:

Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013

More information can be found at Adobe Labs’ blog.

(Via The Phoblographer)

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