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Some news from the site and from the digital photography world.
Adobe has released Camera Raw 5.2, the new version of its RAW conversion plugin for Photoshop CS4 (only, CS3 is not supported) for Windows and Mac.
Changes:
- added support for new cameras, including Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Panasonic DMC-G1;
- function to store all adjustments applied to an image to be able to apply them to other images;
- the Adjustment Tool seen in the latest Lightroom release;
- setting of output sharpening as in Lightroom;
- new colour profiles
Download link: Windows here, Mac here.
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
A Reuters article (link here) today announces that Samsung Techwin (owned by the more popular Samsung Electronics) is going to spin off the camera business, since it is not performing well, under high costs pressure and heavy competition in the digital arena.
We remember that some years ago Minolta sold its camera business to Sony. Tough competition....
Apple has released an update to the "Digital Camera Raw Compatibility" software to version 2.3. This update is applicable to iPhoto '08 and Aperture and adds RAW format support for Canon EOS 50D, Nikon D90, Sony A900 and compact Nikon P6000. Besides that, Apple declares that the update improve stability of RAW conversion, it's not specified to what aspect specifically.
Link to download the update is here.
Lightroom 2.1 has been released after some week of a 2.1 Release Candidate version. Also Adobe Camera Raw for Photoshop has been updated.
This update just adds support for some new cameras and fixes a lot of stability and performance bugs.
Lightroom 2.0 infact was launched with quite a lot of problems for some type of hardware (like for PC with some type of graphic cards as well for Vista 64 bits).
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
Photoshop CS4 and its "brothers" in the Creative Suite 4 product family is available, though not yet for all supported languages.
The new version offers improved performance, new tabbed interface, the new non destructive tools available in Lightroom v2 (like local corrections), smart resize that can preserve objects (see more information on the CS4 announcement news here).
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
Last Wednesday (October 15th 2008), Phase One, that also produces medium format Ddigital camera bodies, has released the version 4 PRO of its professional RAW editing software: Capture ONE 4 PRO.
The new version includes the following main features or enhancements:
- lens correction tool to reduce chromatic aberrations and fringing, as well as distorsions and vignetting;
- new skin tone tool useful to set color balance for skin;
- improved Styles palette and Color Editor for easier fine tuning of colors and with possibility of saving presents.
Discover the differences between Capture ONE basic and PRO and a brief comparison with Lightroom and Photoshop in our article here.
- Referenced brands in this article: Phase One