P: Sigma SD1 - when will the Merrill sensors be supported, please!

Can I add my plea to Adobe for support for the (in my case) DP2 Merrill? It produces fantastic results and I am considering making more use of the Sigma camera and lens family generally but I am put off by Sigma PhotoPro and the slow hassle of converting to TIFF's for editing in Photoshop/Lightroom.
Sigma have told me that they have given Adobe all the necessary data - come on Adobe, what's the prob?
If Adobe absolutely refuse, I suppose that we will have to bear with PhotoPro and harass Sigma to improve PhotoPro. This is Adobe losing out on an opportunity.
Is there a third party raw conversion programme which is a viable alternative?

The Sigma cameras, particularly the Merrill cameras, are not currently supported by Lightroom.

As a person who shoots with a Sigma DP1M, it's annoying not to have support for this camera. The Merrill cameras have been on the market for a long time now. Support for these cameras is long overdue.

Could Adobe consider half-baked support to the extent that at least the asset management capability of Lightroom would work.. ie. basically be able to only preview thumbnails (from embedded jpegs) and read the exif? That at least should be easy..

Sigma need to get free rotation, cropping and free resizing - and a lot of stability into SPP - if Adobe are determined not to support the new generation of Foveon sensors.

But I find it staggering that Adobe is prepared to let two generations of system fall by the wayside, when high-end MF backs which sell fewer units and ship with directly competing software are supported. Is Foveon that much of a challenge?

I am one of the most respected pro photographers in Germany.I witnessed the unbelivable progress in ACRs denoising algorhythms in 2008 (C3/CS4) thanks to Eric and his team.Same for the CA removal, where ACR is unsurpassed, even by the manufacturers own bundeled software (Hasselblad Phocus+ Capture one for example).
I witnessed what ACR is capable of with a Sigma SD14 file (most amazing colors, yet still soft and non digital looking).
And now the most amazing tool ( refer to Llloyd cambers), the DP Merrills and quattros are abandoned.

Please Eric, please, let this finally become a priority at Adobe.Are You guys in contact with the Yamaki family?

Sorry, Richard.  No direct support planned for the Quattro models, either, at present.

We have the quattro now - a camera which can get closer to the ISO limits of mainstream bodies, is edging closer to the write-speeds and shot times, and can deliver the same mind-blowing detail at 100% that the Merrills can.

Will the quattro get support, even if the Merrills don't? The raw files are 50-70MB still (from a 19.6Mp spatial resolution) and now 14-bit per channel (not sure if they pad that to 16-bit for the container). It is a fantastic camera. Sigma needs support from Adobe - their cameras are not finding buyers because the workflow is so different. There's D810 support barely a week after the camera lands - how many people need to either ditch Adobe products, or offer to buy them, before Sigma's modern bodies get some support?

C ́mon Eric, this MUST be a nice challenge for You

Unfortunately not soon. The best technical approach in the meantime would be to do the initial raw conversion in Sigma's software and save the result as a 16-bit TIFF, which you can then further develop in ACR / Lr. I know this workflow is not ideal, but it's what we have at present.

Any news on this ?