P: New Camera Raw File Support - Requests & Information

A new camera from a major manufacturer is usually supported in the version of Camera Raw/Lightroom following the release of the camera. LR releases about every eight weeks, so we might expect to see LR 12.5 around August 8 - 15.  

In the US, B&H, Adorama, and Amazon won't start shipping the a6700 until August 3, so it's very possible that Adobe won't have a production camera in time for LR 12.5.  In that case, support will be delayed for another two months.

(I have no inside information.)

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

@bobb82368016, Adobe retired the name "Lightroom CC" years ago and there are now multiple programs called "Lightroom". Do the menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the first line here, so we know the precise version of Lightroom you're running.

LR usually supports a new camera from a major manufacturer in the release following the availability of the camera, sometimes the next release after that.  LR releases every 8-9 weeks on average, so we might expect to see LR 12.2 this week or next. 

The S5 II was announced 1/18/23, but Panasonic announced they expected delays in fullfilling early orders.  Hopefully Adobe got theirs in time to meet the LR 12.2 release schedule.   But if not, Adobe recently announced that Camera Raw and the DNG Converter would be released about every 4 weeks. So if the S5 II doesn't make it into LR 12.2, you could likely use the DNG Converter released a month later to convert the S5 II's raws to DNG before importing into LR, and then a month after that LR 12.3 would include direct support.

Of course, if Panasonic supported the industry-standard DNG format, you would get immediate support in LR, as Thedigitaldog pointed out.

I can't open my raw RW2 of my S5ii panasonic with the latest lightroom version

By @default2vpgfa8pre8o

This is a recently released camera, and not yet supported by Lightroom.

It will most likely be supported in an update in the near future. Impossible to say when, because Adobe does not announce updates in advance.

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post if it helps you get responses.

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The updates come every two to three months.  They are not scheduled or announced.

The answer is in this thread many times right above your post. The reason it is not supported yet is that Panasonic uses a propretary raw format and Adobe (and other raw engines) first have to buy the camera and profile waht it does in different light conditions before it can be supported. Were they to use an open raw forat such as dng or were they to share prerelease versions with raw converter makers, this wouldn't happen every time a new camera is released. You will have to wait until the next version of Lightroom (probably a few weeks out if history is an indicator) before you will see support for raw files from the new camera. In the mean time, convert to tiff using the camera maker's software but keep the raw files for future processing.