9 June 2009
Adobe has released its Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate, available immediately as a free download.
Available from Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com <http://labs.adobe.com> . The 'elease candidate'label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all customers.
The Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate extends raw file support to an additional 26 camera and camera back models including the Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i), Nikon D5000, and 18 Hasselblad models. The full list of newly supported cameras and camera backs is below.
The camera raw functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access to supported raw image formats produced by many leading professional and mid-range digital cameras. Working with these 'igital negatives'provides photographers with greater artistic control and flexibility while maintaining the original raw files. Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw supports the same functionality for TIFF and JPEG files.
The Camera Raw team would like the community to help verify the quality of the Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate through normal usage to ensure that the application is tested on a wide variety of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.