It´s HERE! (Lightroom 2.2, that is...)

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Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2.2 Now Available

 

Just installed it on my PB. Yes, it does handle G1 raws directly; afraid I don´t own the D-lux4, but it´s on the list..... Haven´t had time to test details.

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Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2.2 Now Available

 

Just installed it on my PB. Yes, it does handle G1 raws directly; afraid I don´t own the D-lux4, but it´s on the list..... Haven´t had time to test details.

 

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

Re the D-lux4 etc: I quote from the LR blog (to whom thanks are due), and I recommend reading it for the full list of fixes/enhancements:

 

**With the release of Camera Raw 5.2 (and upcoming Lightroom 2.2 release) there is an important exception in our DNG file handling for the Panasonic DMC LX3, Panasonic DMC FX150, Panasonic DMC FZ28, Panasonic DMC-G1 and Leica D-LUX 4. In this release the native, proprietary files from these cameras can only be converted to linear DNG files. A linear DNG file has gone through a demosaic process that converts a single mosaic layer of red, green and blue channel information into three distinct layers , one for each channel. The resulting linear DNG file is approximately three times the size of a mosaic DNG file or the original proprietary file format.

 

This exception is a temporary solution to ensure that Panasonic and Leica's intended image rendering from their proprietary raw file format is applied to an image when converted DNG files are viewed in third party software titles. The same image rendering process is applied automatically in Camera Raw 5.2 and in Lightroom 2.2 when viewing the original proprietary raw file format.

 

In a future release Adobe plans to update the DNG specification to include an option to embed metadata-based representations of the lens compensations in the DNG file, allowing a mosaic DNG conversion. In the interim Adobe recommends only converting these files to DNG to allow compatibility with third party raw converters, previous versions of the Camera Raw plug-in or previous versions of Lightroom.

 

I'll install later today.

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Just hope that they have addressed the glitch with the Slideshow application.

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**With the release of Camera Raw 5.2 (and upcoming Lightroom 2.2 release) there is an important exception in our DNG file handling for the Panasonic DMC LX3, Panasonic DMC FX150, Panasonic DMC FZ28, Panasonic DMC-G1 and Leica D-LUX 4. In this release the native, proprietary files from these cameras can only be converted to linear DNG files. A linear DNG file has gone through a demosaic process that converts a single mosaic layer of red, green and blue channel information into three distinct layers , one for each channel. The resulting linear DNG file is approximately three times the size of a mosaic DNG file or the original proprietary file format.

 

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Yes, that´s what happens when exporting to DNG from LR 2.2; what you get is the large linear (49 MB) that the DNG Converter has given for a couple of weeks now.

 

But when importing and editing within LR, it works directly on the RW2 files, which are 14 MB each, so no conversion there; it renders the raw´s directly.

 

So the savings, both in time and disk space, are great.

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This is the reason of the DNG linear "solution":

 

The Online Photographer: Panasonic LX3 Barrel Distortion Controversy

 

The local adjustment tools are faster now. I had problems using them in LR 2.0 and 2.1... too slow...