Adobe released camera RAW 8.5 which adds support fo the E-M10 and a preliminary support for the GH4. Download here for CC and here for CS6.
For now you can only convert your GH4 RAW into DNG files to open the files. With the release of Lightroom 6 we should get “native” GH4 RAW file support.
via Photographybay.
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That’s pretty quick, props to those behind the scenes.
First, it’s a random guy’s hunch, and second, they’ll just be wanting more money.
-Lightroom user.
Why wait for Adobe when DXO Optics supports the GH4 (and has for a long time) in addition to having lens profiles which Adobe will probably never have…
Because DXO Optics Pro works wery slow and is very dificult to edit 1000+ images. Do’t get me wrong, it is a very good program, but not for bench process.
Slow processing times for the RAW files is a trade off for the much better noise reduction of the Prime engine which denoises far better than any other denoising software on the market. On my i5 based laptop it takes ~2 mins per file – go make yourself a coffee or something.
And DXO is not for editing, it is for RAW conversion, DXO have even built integration with Lightroom into the latest release so you can do your edits there.
That LR integration is interesting, I wonder how it works then.
I guess it’ll pass a ‘backed’ TGA image to LR for editing.
This way I’m left with AdobeRGB (I guess) color space instead of ProPhoto ‘unlimited’ that RAW files contain, plus editing cooked image (to some part) in LR is different than editing RAW (color profiles, lens corrections and such are already applied).
I believe there are some nice denoise plugins for LR avaiable as well (and tuning denoising in LR is unlimited) so not sure this is most important factor – the color rendering/image output that CameraRaw will provide is what matters the most. And is 2nd best only to native OlympusViewer – that does absolute magic but sadly one can’t switch the noise reduction off (even when it’s off, is toooo strong and you end up with oil sketch).
You can define and load any colour space you like for export from DXO – personally I am fine with AdobeRGB as it is more than any monitor can display. If you need to do prints or whatever just import your colour profile into DXO and it will attach it to the DNG on export
The new DXO is awesome! I’ve never seen anything like their Prime Noise Reduction. And the Smart Lighting feature works really well too.
(along with all their indispensable lens corrections).
2 minutes per file? That’s… even in a deliberate, specialised product shoot I can easily rack a hundred or so photos. I’m not waiting 4 hours for my images to process!
Has it already been a year since Lightroom 5 came out? Dang!
Any new tools in the v6. release?
Probably more bloated fluff. I only upgraded from version 4 to gain support for my Lumix GM1, I haven’t found much use for any of the new features.
Has it improved significantly enough to justify leaving behind Windows XP?
You need a reason to get off XP – how about the fact it doesn’t get security patches anymore…your system is probably already part of a botnet
Oh man, I don’t know what to say… if money i an issue and I could understand not wanting to move on from XP, But you really should. I’s suggest to try Lightzone, GIMP, Darktable, or any other onensource you can find, find any combo you are happy with and move on to far more secure Ubuntu.
I need this so badly. The GH4 RAW files are piling up. CC subscription continues to be worth it.
Usually with Lightroom they release a free-to-use beta period first until the final is released, for major version releases with new features that is.
I can only hope they’ll finally get rid of the modal workflow. This is one of the things about LR that drives me crazy and keeps me using Aperture.