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December 9, 2016
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CS4 Camera Raw Support for Sony A7R2?

  • December 9, 2016
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I have a Sony A7R2 and am using Photoshop and Bridge CS4, but my raw files (.ARW) cannot be shown as a thumbnail preview or opened in Photoshop. Can I install a driver so that I can use CS4? All the links I've found seem to want me to purchase the updated software to support the camera driver. Help?

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    Correct answer Terri Stevens

    I am afraid you are out of luck with your camera as it is much newer than the CS4 software you are using. If you really want to use Camera Raw files then you have a few alternatives

    1) Subscribe to Creative Cloud Photography Plan at $10/month

    2) Buy a copy of Photoshop CS6 as it will recognise your camera, but at $999 it might be rather an expensive solution-and actually not advised

    3) Use the free Adobe DNG converter. This will recognise the camera output and convert the raw files losslessly into digital negatives that Photoshop can open.

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Windows https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Macintosh

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    OnTheOutsideAuthor
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    December 10, 2016

    Thank you both for the helpful information. I updated the camera raw using the link R_Kelly sent and immediately the preview images show up in Bridge and open with Camera Raw. Thank you! And thank you Terri for all the scrrenshots and info for another workaround! So helpful!

    Success!

    Terri Stevens
    Terri Stevens
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    December 10, 2016

    very glad to hear that it is now working for you. There is not any great disadvantages to using the converter apart from the fact it takes a little time to work. On my system it did 3 conversions in batch mode in 45 seconds, so 15 minutes to do 60 exposures which isn't too bad.

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    OnTheOutsideAuthor
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    December 9, 2016

    I followed the steps above, downloaded DNG Converter 9.1.1 which supports the Sony A7R2 and when I try to open the DNG files it states "Cannot open file. Not the right kind of document"  Any idea what is going on? Also, no thumbnail preview shows up in Bridge.

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    Anonymous
    December 10, 2016

    seems common some cameras don't work with some software

    Terri Stevens
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    Legend
    December 9, 2016

    I am afraid you are out of luck with your camera as it is much newer than the CS4 software you are using. If you really want to use Camera Raw files then you have a few alternatives

    1) Subscribe to Creative Cloud Photography Plan at $10/month

    2) Buy a copy of Photoshop CS6 as it will recognise your camera, but at $999 it might be rather an expensive solution-and actually not advised

    3) Use the free Adobe DNG converter. This will recognise the camera output and convert the raw files losslessly into digital negatives that Photoshop can open.

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Windows https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

    Adobe - Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter : For Macintosh

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    OnTheOutsideAuthor
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    December 9, 2016

    This is all very helpful, thank you. Do you know if I use the DNG converter, will I see thumbnail previews when browsing in Bridge?

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    War UnicornCommunity Expert
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    December 9, 2016

    OnTheOutside wrote:

    This is all very helpful, thank you. Do you know if I use the DNG converter, will I see thumbnail previews when browsing in Bridge?

    Yep.

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