As you may know Adobe just launched the Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidates which supports many new cameras but not the X PRO 1. Don’t worry! They just added a note too:
“The Lightroom and Camera Raw team is well aware of the new X-Pro1 camera from FUJIFILM. We are currently developing raw support for the X-Pro1 and look forward to providing it as soon as support is complete. Thanks for your patience on this topic.”
Let’s hope it doens’t take that long!
via ThomasFitzgerald
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I have decided to put off buying an xpro1 for now and continue with my 450d and film cameras. My reasoning is that I would like to see if Lightroom support really happens. I would like more of the bugs ironed out . I have used the xpro1 twice now and the auto focus wasn’t too bad but the funny lag on the Evf was mildly off putting. Also Leica and hassleblad may come out with something cool soon. People take v good shots with the 450d so I am in no rush.
that comment was on RC1 and since then there was no update to it and RC2 release notes don’t include anything about X-Pro1. They just released final version of ACR and X-Pro1 isn’t supported. Adobe releases ACR updates only few times so I’d say we won’t see X-Pro1 support any time soon
This is completely a guess, as I don’t know anything about the way that camera companies usually work with Adobe and Apple. Since the Fuji uses such a different sensor, I wonder if they consider the software that converts RAW as proprietary, and are not releasing it to third parties, in order to try and protect their technology. This would mean Adobe, etc. would have to generate the formulae needed to extract data off the sensor, which will involve more time (and cost)—but like I said, this is complete speculation on my part.
Just a way for Adobe to force some people to upgrade to CS6 and have ACR support for the camera.
The alternative will be to convert the RAF files to DNG and still be able to use CS5 (we hope it continues to work).