ACR 8.8 Available

[Mike Farley]

If you have Photoshop CS6 or CC, there is an new version of ACR out. As well as support for new cameras, profiles for a number of lenses has been added*. There are a couple of oddities about the announcement. With the launch of Lightroom 6 imminent, the comment at the end of this article at DPReview about Lightroom users needing to use the DNG converter suggests that ACR 8.8 will not be issued for LR5. If this is indeed the case, so far as I am aware it would be the first time that Adobe has not maintained compatibility between its two main photo imaging applications. Neither is Photoshop Elements mentioned by DPReview, although ACR 8.8 has also been released for version 13.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/947670 ... -available

* New lens profiles included are for the Sigma Quattro DP1 and DP2 cameras which have fixed lenses. This probably does not mean that Adobe will be adding Raw conversion for the Quattro cameras as the sensor design is radically different from the Bayer sensors used for most cameras. (Fuji has its own non Bayer colour filter array, but the principle is similar.) There is also a profile for the earlier Sigma DP1 Merrill which has been around for some time, but Raw conversion has never materialised for the Merrill cameras. Creating a lens profile is much easier than the complex calculations required for Raw conversion.