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Sigma SD1 Merrill

Apr 15, 2012 1:36 AM

Tags: #sigma #sd1 #merrill

When will support for the Sigma SD1 Merrill be added Lightroom 4?

1679 Views 3 Replies Latest reply: J Clow, Apr 15, 2012 4:53 PM

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1. Cornelia-I,

Apr 15, 2012 2:06 AM in reply to Neosea

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Hi Neosea,

On a user-to-user forum nobody can give you a pertinent answer regarding date.

The obvious (and hardly useful...) answer is: either with version LR4.1 or 4.2

New camera models and their raw formats are always introduced with dot-releases.
For 4.1 a Release Candidate is already out, so it may be too short a leadtime to introduce more new cameras, but only the final will tell definitely.
Sometimes you can get along with mimicking the new files as ones of its immediate predecessor - I used this following Rob Cole and his import plugin two years ago for the Canon G12 for two months.

Cornelia

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2. Neosea,

Apr 15, 2012 2:09 AM in reply to Cornelia-I

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Thank you for your reply Cornelia

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3. J Clow,

Apr 15, 2012 4:53 PM in reply to Neosea

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I'm sorry to tell you that it might not be that rosy.

Because the SD1 uses a foven sensor, the raw files are structured differently from other cameras, and have to be processed by Lightroom in a different way. This means that it will take them much longer to release raw support for the SD1 (if they ever do). I highly doubt taht it'll make the 4.1 release, it might be on 4.2, might be later.

sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

John

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