ACR 2.4

Brian wrote:

Although I’ve the latest version (3.4) of Camera Raw installed I only have the option of ACR 2.4 as a camera profile. I assume it’s because my camera’s profile hasn’t been updated (EOS 300D) since the original version, but could someone plaease confirm this

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Correct.

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Barry Pearson
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/
http://www.birdsandanimals.info/

Brian wrote:

Although I’ve the latest version (3.4) of Camera Raw installed I only have the option of ACR 2.4 as a camera profile. I assume it’s because my camera’s profile hasn’t been updated (EOS 300D) since the original version, but could someone plaease confirm this

Confirmed.

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On 12 May 2006 12:34:36 -0700, "Barry Pearson" mentioned:

Correct.

Thanks

Brian
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"Barry Pearson" wrote:

Brian wrote:

Although I’ve the latest version (3.4) of Camera Raw installed I only have the option of ACR 2.4 as a camera profile. I assume it’s because my camera’s profile hasn’t been updated (EOS 300D) since the original version, but could someone plaease confirm this

[snip]

Correct.

Barry Pearson

I have a 20D and I also have ACR 3.4 installed and like Brian, I only get the choice of ACR 2.4 as a camera profile. According to Adobe’s ACR 3.4 documentation
( http://www.adobe.com/special/photoshop/camera_raw/Camera_Raw _3.4 _ReadMe.pdf) both the 20D and 300D are supported in ACR 3.4. If you’re saying that neither of these cameras allows the choice of an ACR 3.4 profile, then were does Adobe list the cameras that actually can use ACR 3.4?

Mardon wrote:
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I have a 20D and I also have ACR 3.4 installed and like Brian, I only get the choice of ACR 2.4 as a camera profile.

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you’re saying that neither of these cameras allows the choice of an ACR 3.4 profile, then were does Adobe list the cameras that actually can use ACR 3.4?

All cameras supported in earlier versions of ACR are supported in 3.4. Support has never been removed for any camera, as far as I know.

What happens is that when a camera is supported by ACR, it has to have a profile built in. The version of that profile is typically that of the first version of ACR that supported it. But if Adobe decide later that they can improve the profile, they will add that new profile to a future ACR, and the new profile will have the new version number.

But … Adobe still make the old profile available to people who want it. Perhaps people want to be able to reprocess old images that they have already processed with the old profile, and don’t want to use the new profile. Perhaps they simply prefer the old profile! So Adobe make both profiles available via the drop-down menu.

If your camera only has one version there, it simply means that Adobe are currently satisfied with the first profile they released for the camera, and haven’t provided a new version. Don’t worry about it – most cameras only have one profile.

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Barry Pearson
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/
http://www.birdsandanimals.info/

"Barry Pearson" wrote:

All cameras supported in earlier versions of ACR are supported in 3.4. Support has never been removed for any camera, as far as I know.

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Thank you Barry for your helpful explanation.