Lightroom 3.5 to support Oly, Pany, Sony cameras

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Sony's NEX-C3 is among the cameras supported by Lightroom 3.5, now a release candidate.

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

By now it's a familiar pattern: Camera makers release new models that can shoot photos in the high-quality but labor-intensive raw image format, and Adobe Systems periodically catches up with a release to support those proprietary formats.

So it's no surprise to owners of Olympus' E-P3, E-PL3, Panasonic's G3 and GF3, and Sony's Alpha NEX-C3 and SLT-A35 that the release candidate for Lightroom 3.5 adds support for their cameras. The closely related Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in 6.5 release candidate, also issued, follows suit; usually it's a few weeks before the test versions are replaced by final versions.

But the vastly larger number of existing Lightroom customers who have older cameras should pay attention to this release, too, because it attempts to fix a lot of bugs. Tom Hogarty, Lightroom's product manager, details them on his blog about Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 today, but here are some that I found notable:

• Using the arrow keys to modify image adjustment settings lacked responsiveness

• Lightroom 3.2 introduced preview cache inefficiencies.

• Develop load time performance was inconsistent.

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Stephen Shankland 23 Aug, 2011

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Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20096376-264/lightroom-3.5-to-support-oly-pany-sony-cameras/?part=test-cnet&subj=software&tag=title
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