Adobe announces new Camera Raw, Lightroom, DNG Converter release candidates
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00am
Adobe has announced the Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 release candidates, available for immediate download on Adobe Labs.
According to Adobe, the term “release candidate” means this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing to provide the highest quality experience for customers working on a variety of hardware and software configurations.
The updates add raw file support for 19 new camera models, including the Canon EOS 7D and Nikon D3s, with additional DNG support added for the Leica M9 camera model. The release candidates also provide a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 updates on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to create artifacts in the highlight area while using the Highlight Recovery tool in raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs.
Photoshop Lightroom 2 software is a digital photography workflow solution, allowing photographers to import, process, manage and showcase images. The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in provides access within Photoshop to the raw image formats produced by many leading digital cameras, and Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) format is a publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras.
The Lightroom 2.6 release candidate is available as a free download for existing Lightroom 2 customers, and the Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6 release candidate is available as a free download for existing customers of Photoshop CS4. The DNG Converter 5.6 Release Candidate is also available as a free download for all customers.
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