Photoshop supports 5D Mark II, camera profiles

Adobe Systems on Monday updated its raw-image processing software for Photoshop CS4 with support for Canon's higher-end EOS 5D Mark II camera and building in support for the camera profiles that can give images more realistic colors.

Raw image files from Canon's EOS 5D Mark II now is supported by Adobe Photoshop.

(Credit: Canon)

The camera profiles, which I strongly recommend people employ, let you change image tones and colors to better match camera settings such as neutral, portrait, and landscape. They'd been released on the Adobe Labs site, but now are officially built into the Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 software and an accompanying utility, DNG Converter for changing cameras' proprietary raw files into Adobe's Digital Negative format.

The support for Canon's new 5D Mark II SLR is arriving just in the nick of time for the camera itself. Photographer and blogger Rob Galbraith, citing the company, Canon will begin shipping the new cameras to U.S. dealers on Tuesday. The $2,700, 21-megapixel camera, with a full-frame sensor the size of a frame film and a 1080p high-definition video mode, will help Canon counter Nikon's increasingly competitive models, and it's a hotly anticipated model.

The new raw software also supports several higher-end compact cameras: Canon PowerShot G10, Panasonic DMC-G1, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150, Panasonic DMC-FZ28, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, and Leica D-LUX 4, Adobe said. Additionally, people can save adjustment settings for future use.

The software (for Mac OS X or Windows) can be downloaded from Adobe's Web site.

[Hep Cat]

Um. Thanks to Adobe for getting these RAW profiles sorted out. Obviously, the few thousand people with this camera take precedence over other cusotmers.

Now, can they geniuses at Adobe start working ON THE ********* PERFORMANCE ISSUES IN AFTER EFFECTS FOR THE MAC?

Same processor, same equipment. Crap performance on the Mac. Thanks, Adobe! We see what you're doing, and a few of your employees do, too.

[planetMitch]

thanks for the info on photoshop updates - we'll be adding a link to this from the 5d mk ii wiki http://planet5d.com so all of our users are aware of this.

[canberra_photographer]

"Raw image files from Canon's EOS 5D Mark Mark II now is supported by Adobe Photoshop."

I see english isn't a job requirement, that should be "...Mark II are now supported"

[Travis Ernst]

$2700 is BODY ONLY unless there are some shops going broke selling the kit with the 28-105 (about a grand for that L series lens) for a couple hundred more. I thought they were going for about 5 or 600 more for the "kits".

Enjoy it if you buy the 5D mk II, she looks great. Good to know this body can take the EF and EF-S lenses.

[Just_Shoot_It]

"2700 is BODY ONLY unless there are some shops going broke selling the kit with the 28-105 (about a grand for that L series lens) for a couple hundred more. I thought they were going for about 5 or 600 more for the "kits".

Enjoy it if you buy the 5D mk II, she looks great. Good to know this body can take the EF and EF-S lenses"

The lens that comes with the $3499 kit version is the Canon 24-105 f/4L. The 28-105 is a $200 lens. The 5D Mk II does not work with EF-S lenses. EF-S lenses have a different, shallower mount that is designed for Canon's APS-C digital cameras, like the XSi, 40D, 50D.