Digital camera raw file support
The camera raw functionality in Adobe® Photoshop® software provides fast and easy access to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original raw files.
The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in became the latest must-have tool for professional photographers when it was released in February 2003. This powerful plug-in has been frequently updated to support more cameras and include more features, and is available as part of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software is built upon the same powerful raw processing technology that is available in the camera raw plug-in.
The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in (2.3 or later) now also supports raw files in the Digital Negative (DNG) format. Find out more about the benefits of DNG, a publicly documented raw file format recently announced by Adobe.
To learn more about Camera Raw, read these primers:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
From raw processing to final presentation, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 handles your digital photographs in a comprehensive application. Import, manage, and showcase large photo collections or develop a single image. Together with Photoshop CS4 for pixel-level retouching and compositing, Lightroom 2 completes the professional photography workflow.
Supported cameras in Camera Raw and Lightroom
Camera Raw 5.2
Lightroom 2.1
(Lightroom has not been updated with the new camera support listed below. Lightroom will be updated in December to Lightroom 2.2 with new camera support)
Newly supported cameras for Camera Raw 5
Support for the following cameras has been added from Camera Raw 5.1 to 5.2
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon PowerShot G10
- Panasonic DMC-G1 **
- Panasonic DMC-FX150 **
- Panasonic DMC-FZ28 **
- Panasonic DMC-LX3 **
- Leica D-LUX 4 **
Supported cameras for Camera Raw 5 and Lightroom 2
Support for the following cameras is included in Camera Raw 5 and Lightroom 2. Camera Raw 5 and later is not compatible with Photoshop CS3.
- Canon
- EOS-1D
- EOS-1Ds
- EOS-1D Mark II
- EOS-1D Mark II N
- EOS-1Ds Mark II
- EOS-1D Mark III
- EOS-1Ds Mark III
- EOS 5D
- EOS 5D Mark II
- EOS 10D
- EOS 20D
- EOS 20Da
- EOS 30D
- EOS 40D
- EOS 50D
- EOS D30
- EOS D60
- EOS 300D (Digital Rebel/Kiss Digital)
- EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT/EOS Kiss Digital N)
- EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi/EOS Kiss Digital X)
- EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi/EOS Kiss X2)
- EOS 1000D (Digital Rebel XS/EOS Kiss F)
- PowerShot 600
- PowerShot A5
- PowerShot A50
- PowerShot S30
- PowerShot S40
- PowerShot S45
- PowerShot S50
- PowerShot S60
- PowerShot S70
- PowerShot G1
- PowerShot G2
- PowerShot G3
- PowerShot G5
- PowerShot G6
- PowerShot G9
- PowerShot G10
- PowerShot Pro70
- PowerShot Pro90 IS
- PowerShot Pro1
- Contax
- N Digital
- Epson
- R-D1
- R-D1s
- Fujifilm
- FinePix E900
- FinePix F700
- FinePix IS-1
- FinePix IS Pro
- FinePix S100FS
- FinePix S2 Pro
- FinePix S20 Pro
- FinePix S3 Pro
- FinePix S5 Pro
- FinePix S5000 Z
- FinePix S5200/5600
- FinePix S6000fd/S6500fd
- FinePix S7000 Z
- FinePix S9000/9500
- FinePix S9100/9600
- Kodak
- DCS 14n
- DCS Pro 14nx
- DCS720x
- DCS760
- DCS Pro SLR/n
- EasyShare P712
- EasyShare P850
- EasyShare P880
- EasyShare Z1015 IS
- Konica Minolta
- DiMAGE A1
- DiMAGE A2
- DiMAGE A200
- DiMAGE 5
- DiMAGE 7
- DiMAGE 7i
- DiMAGE 7Hi
- Maxxum 7D / DYNAX 7D
- ALPHA SWEET DIGITAL (Japan)
- ALPHA-5 DIGITAL (China)
- MAXXUM 5D (USA)
- DYNAX 5D (Europe)
- Leaf
- AFi II 6
- AFi II 7
- Aptus II 6
- Aptus II 7
- Aptus 17
- Aptus 22
- Aptus 54s
- Aptus 65
- Aptus 65s
- Aptus 75
- Aptus 75s
- Valeo 6
- Valeo 11
- Valeo 17
- Valeo 22
- Leica
- DIGILUX 2
- DIGILUX 3
- D-LUX 2
- D-LUX 3
- V-LUX 1
- D-LUX 4 **
- Mamiya
- ZD
- Nikon*
- D1
- D1H
- D1X
- D100
- D200
- D2H
- D2Hs
- D2X
- D2Xs
- D3
- D300
- D40
- D40x
- D50
- D60
- D70
- D700
- D70s
- D80
- D90
- Coolpix 5000
- Coolpix 5400
- Coolpix 5700
- Coolpix 8400
- Coolpix 8700
- Coolpix 8800
- Coolpix P6000
- Olympus
- E-1
- E-3
- E-10
- E-20
- E-410
- E-420
- E-520
- EVOLT E-300
- EVOLT E-330
- EVOLT E-400
- EVOLT E-410
- EVOLT E-500
- EVOLT E-510
- C-5050 Zoom
- C-5060 Zoom
- C-7070 Wide Zoom
- C-8080 Wide Zoom
- SP-310
- SP-320
- SP-350
- SP-500 UZ
- SP-510 UZ
- SP-550 UZ
- SP-560 UZ
- SP-565 UZ
- SP-570 UZ
- Panasonic
- DMC-FX150 **
- DMC-FZ8
- DMC-FZ18
- DMC-FZ28 **
- DMC-FZ30
- DMC-FZ50
- DMC-G1 **
- DMC-L1
- DMC-LC1
- DMC-L10
- DMC-LX1
- DMC-LX2
- DMC-LX3 **
- Pentax
- *ist D
- *ist DL
- *ist DL2
- *ist DS
- *ist DS2
- K10D (PEF)
- K100D
- K100D Super
- K110D
- K20D (PEF)
- K200D (PEF)
- K2000 (K-m)
- Phase One
- H 20
- H 25
- P 20
- P 20+
- P 21
- P 21+
- P 25
- P 25+
- P 30
- P 30+
- P 45
- P 45+
- Samsung
- GX-1S
- GX-1L
- Sigma
- DP1
- SD9
- SD10
- SD14
- Sony
- A100
- A200
- A300
- A350
- A700
- A900
- DSC-F828
- DSC-R1
- DSC-V3
DNG native cameras
The following cameras can natively capture DNG format raw files and thus are compatible with Camera Raw version 2.4 and later.
- Casio
- EXILIM EX-F1
- EXILIM EX-FH20
- Hasselblad
- H2D
- Leica
- Digital-Modul-R
- M8
- Pentax
- K10D
- K20D
- K200D
- Ricoh
- GR Digital
- GR Digital II
- GX100
- GX200
- Samsung
- GX-10
- GX-20
- Pro 815
*The file encryption found in some Nikon raw formats has caused some users to question the level of cooperation between Nikon and Adobe in providing solutions for raw processing. Get more information about Nikon's and Adobe's joint commitment to the common needs of customers.
** With the release of Camera Raw 5.2 (and upcoming Lightroom 2.2 release) there is an important exception in our DNG file handling for the Panasonic DMC LX3, Panasonic DMC FX150, Panasonic DMC FZ28, Panasonic DMC-G1 and Leica D-LUX 4. For those choosing to convert these native, proprietary files to the DNG file format, a linear DNG format is the only conversion option available at this time. A linear DNG file has gone through a demosaic process that converts a single mosaic layer of red, green and blue channel information into three distinct layers, one for each channel. The resulting linear DNG file is approximately three times the size of a mosaic DNG file or the original proprietary file format.
This exception is a temporary solution to ensure that Panasonic and Leica's intended image rendering from their proprietary raw file format is applied to an image when converted DNG files are viewed in third party software titles. The same image rendering process is applied automatically in Camera Raw 5.2 and in Lightroom 2.2 when viewing the original proprietary raw file format.
In a future release Adobe plans to update the DNG specification to include an option to embed metadata-based representations of the lens compensations in the DNG file, allowing a mosaic DNG conversion. In the interim Adobe recommends only converting these files to DNG to allow compatibility with third party raw converters, previous versions of the Camera Raw plug-in or previous versions of Lightroom.
Note: Adobe is often able to provide preliminary support for raw files from new camera models not listed above. Camera Raw and Lightroom will open and edit these files, but profiling and testing is not complete.
