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Camera Raw 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 now available!

Adobe has released both Camera Raw 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 today, fixing some bugs and adding support for some new cameras:

• Nikon D300s
• Nikon D3000
• Olympus E-P1 (Pen)
• Panasonic DMC-FZ35*
• Panasonic DMC-GF1

The other release notes can be read by clicking the read more link. The update can be gotten form the Adobe download section, or by going to Help > Update within either Photoshop CS4 or Lightroom 2 (depending on which you want to upgrade).

Release Notes

• Camera Raw 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 include a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Bayer sensor cameras with unequal green response. Olympus, Panasonic and Sony are among the more popular camera manufacturers affected by this change. The demosaic correction provides a subtle visual improvement to the processing of those raw files.

• Lightroom 2.5 corrects for the following problem in Lightroom 2.4. Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display the import dialog when a memory card was detected regardless of the preference setting "Show import dialog when a memory card is detected."

* Note that in Europe and Japan this model is marketed as the DMC-FZ38. Unfortunately, due to a metadata difference between these cameras, files from the DMC-FZ38 will not be supported until the next Camera Raw and Lightroom updates.