No Lightroom support for V-Lux yet

[vikasmg]

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My wife purchased a V-Lux last week at the Washington Leica Store - the first one they sold. I tried importing her pictures into Lightroom but Lightroom won't recognize the V-Lus RAW format. I registered the camera and downloaded a new copy of Lightroom from the Leica site and still no joy. I finally wrote to Leicaand was informed that

>>The current version of Adobe Lightroom regrettably does not support the RAW format of the V-Lux (Typ114)

An update for Lightroom will come soon.<<

 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that it does happen soon, but in the meanwhile does anyone know of any other means of opening a V-Lux RAW file?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

- Vikas

[spylaw4]

Adobe Camera Raw 8.7 and DNG Converter 8.7 RC add support for some of the latest

Extract from a recent Leica rumours posting:

 

Leica products

By LR ADMIN | Published: OCTOBER 5, 2014

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Adobe released Camera Raw 8.7 and DNG Converter 8.7 RC (release candidate) with support for the following Leica related products:

 

Leica V-Lux (Typ 114)

Leica SUMMICRON-S 100 mm f/2 ASPH (Leica S)

SLR Magic 50mm T0.95 Hyperprime cine lens (Leica M)

The CC version can be downloaded here, the CS6 version is available here.

 

Posted in Leica S, Leica V-Lux | Tagged Adobe | Leave a comment

 

We can therefore assume that an LR update will follow soon. - Meanwhile why not just use jpegs/

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[Meadowspos]

My wife purchased a V-Lux last week at the Washington Leica Store - the first one they sold. I tried importing her pictures into Lightroom but Lightroom won't recognize the V-Lus RAW format. I registered the camera and downloaded a new copy of Lightroom from the Leica site and still no joy. I finally wrote to Leicaand was informed that

>>The current version of Adobe Lightroom regrettably does not support the RAW format of the V-Lux (Typ114)

An update for Lightroom will come soon.<<

 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that it does happen soon, but in the meanwhile does anyone know of any other means of opening a V-Lux RAW file?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

- Vikas

 

I have had exactly the same experience and can confirm that I had a similar reply from Leica-support.

 

In the meantime before another LR update becomes available I downloaded the Adobe digital negative converter [which appears to be a temporary file] and this will open the RWL files convert them to DNG for further processing in LR5.

 

Hope that this solves the immediate problem.

 

Dave Meadows

[vikasmg]

Thank you both. I've downloaded the ACR release candidate. Should tide me over for now!