When will Lr 5 support the new Canon 7D Mark II?

You could use the free Adobe DNG Converter 8.7RC to convert your raws to DNG, which you can then import to your current LR version.

Hi Jim,

Camera RAW 8.7 RC doesn't support the EOS 7D Mark II yet ...

There may be more info at: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/why_doesnt_my_version_of_photoshop_o r_lightroom_support_my_camera-17cz5b

You'll know when it happens, not before - Adobe never officially pre-announces support - but Raw Therapee does a very good job of converting 7D Mk II files, even though it's not officially supported there yet.

BKKDon wrote:

 

Hi Jim,

 

Camera RAW 8.7 RC doesn't support the EOS 7D Mark II yet ...

 

Oops....yes of course. Brain still in D750 mode I guess!

Thanks for the catch.....

Oh, we'll be seeing plenty of this over the 7D Mk II, Jim - evidently in the UK it's the most pre-ordered Canon body ever.

And - as with the D750 and the D810 before it - it will appear to be been bought exclusively by people who don't know how to do a site search here; who don't know how to use Google to check for Lightroom camera support; and who think that all Raw files from a given manufacturer are exactly the same...

I have just downloaded the DNG convertor as per your suggestion but it opened once and could not see the files.

when I re-booted the desktop and tried again all the buttons were transparent and despite attempts to re-install this remains the case.

Furthermore, there doesn't appear to be any way to un-install the programme. there is no un-installer in the software and windows 7 add/remove programmes doesn't list it so it would appear that I'm stuck with it, unless you know a way to get it off my pc.

Ian Lyons indicated the other day that the camera will be supported in the Camera Raw 8.7 final release as well as the next Lightroom update. But he wouldn't give any release dates.

I got 7D 2 too, hope Lr5 supports it asap.

For the moment i use the follow solution :

Import RAW in Canon Digital Photo Proffessional  or another convertor , Export in batch and convert your RAW's in TIFF  . Open Lightroom and Import the TIFF's as " Apply " ( not convert as DNG )  . You can edit your pictures in Lightroom !

Kind regards ,

Pierre Nowosad

http://www.birdsinflight.be

WAIT for RAW support? I have work to do with this camera this week. No way I'm shooting this thing as JPG.

seanmclean_sc wrote:

 

WAIT for RAW support? I have work to do with this camera this week. No way I'm shooting this thing as JPG.

For those of you who don't bother to check software support before purchasing and committing work to a particular piece of gear, your best option is to shoot Raw+JPEG.  You will have instant access to JPEG, temporary access to Raw via DPP and Lightroom support shortly.

The next update for Lightroom is due soon and should have your Raw file support.

I appreciate your response. I don't agree and that's OK. That's where I'll let go of the topic.

seanmclean_sc wrote:

 

WAIT for RAW support? I have work to do with this camera this week. No way I'm shooting this thing as JPG.

So you're a pro?

Then it's part of your job to know how this stuff works.

Nothing about this situation is new; or unique to Adobe; or unique to the 7D Mk II (and yes, I'm an owner too - I'm waiting for support from Lr and Capture One and Photo Ninja and DxO Optics Pro), but I also know that - as it has always been - the absence of converter support is a risk that early adopters face.

If support is so "essential", don't buy the camera until after support has been delivered - it's that easy. And if you've backed yourself into a corner and have only a 7D Mk II to shoot with this weekend - well, that ain't Adobe's fault, is it?

A pro should know better than that, too.

so it's personal shots. nice. bye.

seanmclean_sc wrote:

 

I don't agree

I'm not sure which part you don't agree with.

Adobe software does not support raws from 7D Mark II yet.

Which means, for now, you have to:

* work with cooked tiffs or jpegs in Lightroom (or ACR..).

You can get the jpegs from your camera, or get raw-converted tiffs from DPP.

That's pretty much it for now.

When 7D Mark II support is released (soon), then you can process the raws in Adobe software.

Do you disagree?

Rob

The best option may be to use another camera model that is supported.

With the D750, I've been shooting RAW and using Nikon's View NX2 app to burn jpg after a quick exposure / white balance check and importing that into Lightroom.

I've been making adjustments as I normally do in LR, but I was wondering if anyone has determined the best way to import the RAW's and replace those JPG source files once LR gets support for the 750 raw format. I'd like to keep adjustments, stars/color codes, etc and just map them onto matching filenames (short the different .jpg .nef extension)

Anyone done this before?

tw12lveam wrote:

 

I was wondering if anyone has determined the best way to import the RAW's and replace those JPG source files once LR gets support for the 750 raw format. I'd like to keep adjustments, stars/color codes, etc and just map them onto matching filenames (short the different .jpg .nef extension)

RawPlusJpeg (a free plugin I wrote) has features to automate/streamline that stuff..

robcole.com - RawPlusJpeg

Hey, that's pretty cool Rob. Thanks!

I don't do "harsh" here, Rob - but I reserve the right to be blunt where it's warranted.

I'm sick to the back teeth of this "whatever it is, it's always someone else's fault..." attitude that frequently pervades these threads: never mind that the problem is entirely foreseeable, and its emergence is entirely down to a given individual's laziness, carelessness, ignorance of the facts, lack of foresight - any or all of which might apply in a given case.

Taking personal responsibility for bad decisions, owning them and learning from them, is actually a good, healthy thing to do, but we see precious little of it in these discussions: instead, someone screws up, and instead of graciously accepting that fact, their overblown sense of personal entitlement kicks in, and they expect the entire planet to shift on its axis in order to sort out an issue entirely of their own making, as if it's something they have a God-given right to expect.

I'm still not being harsh, but man! I'm tired of this attitude. 

And - let's be honest - I'm just saying here what a lot of people think...

..., but man!I'm tired of this attitude.

 

And - let's be honest - I'm just saying here what a lot of people think...

well said...

and I would add a 'request' to all the early-camera-adopters who come here looking for an answer to their problem:

Go to your camera manufacturer and complain with them about the fact that in late 2014 they still do not give us users the option of a open, publicly-documented RAW-file format! They already give us one open, publicly-documented file format, called JPEG....so why do they resist on their proprietary RAW file formats?

Why not adding a few codelines to the firmware to add the option of writing a DNG? So the user can choose if he/she wants a proprietary raw file (that can be processed on day 1 with the manufacturers own software) or if he/she prefers an open file format that is going to be usable also in the future.

Fair enough Keith - I get the sentiment..

I use Irfanview to view my Raw files and If I want to do a Tiff of one I want to work on I export it

Also there is a batch processor  so you can just batch them all out as tiff and import to LR.

If you want thumbnails it will show all you images as thumbnails so you can quickly look at the images.

Irfanview is a free program

www.irfanview.com    get the plugins

Is irfanview just extracting preview, or does it have a raw converter too?

IrfanView can extract previews, but it also has a CRW plug-in that will use whatever Canon DLLs are installed on the system, if any, to do actual Canon raw conversion.  You have to install a Zoom Browser or other Canon product that will put new enough DLLs on the system for the particular camera, and of course if someone has the install disks for their camera they probably also have Canon’s own DPP software, so then it is just a preference of whether to use Canon software or other software using Canon DLLs.

Whether the poster has new enough DLLs or is seeing camera-embedded previews remains a question.