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Garfield_Arbuckle
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November 22, 2018
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Adobe Camera Raw 11.0 on El Capitan

  • November 22, 2018
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Dear all,

I bought a new canon eos R and wanted to import my photos into Lightroom.

However I discovered I needed Camera Raw 11.0 so I wanted to upgrade my Camera Raw version.

Then I found out that Camera Raw 11.0 is not supported on OS X El Capitan. This is a massive problem for me as I'm unable to upgrade past El Capitan.

Is anyone having the same issue. I don't consider it to be normal that I would need to buy a new computer just for an update to the Raw processing capabilities.

I understand Adobe doesn't want to support older OS X versions with new features within LR etc however buying a new camera to then having to buy a new laptop because the raw files aren't supported is ridiculous.

I hope there is a solution for this as I'm now unable to see the pictures of my brand new camera .

Thanks

Stijn

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    Zealous_fighter6C12
    New Participant
    October 19, 2020

    You can use Canon Digital professional 4 or later to do adjustments on your CR3 and generate a new JPG or Tiff or transfer to photoshop directly to adjust furthermore. But you don't have the same sophisticated tools as in Photoshop. 

    mariana_fayek94985833
    mariana_fayek94985833
    New Participant
    August 3, 2019

    I have the same issue Mac 10.11 El Capitan, incapable of downloading Sierra/ Mac 10.12. The DNG converter isn't supported by this OS. And I just got my new Canon EOS R and am devastated. No way can I buy a new computer right now. I don't know what to do.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Brainiac
    October 19, 2020

    Adobe DNG (free) will not support your OS?

     

    Perhaps another RAW to DNG converter. For example Iridient C-Transformer. Not free, but you can demo it to try out before deciding to purchase. Looks like it supports the R, looks like it requires MACOS 10.7 or newer

     

    https://www.iridientdigital.com/products/ctransformer_download.html

     

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Brainiac
    November 22, 2018

    On your laptop visit the Apple/iTunes store (or whatever it is now called) and search for a RAW converter or perhaps RAW editor that works on your OS. Might have to convert to TIFF, might not be DNG capable??

    JohanElzenga
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    November 23, 2018

      wrote

    On your laptop visit the Apple/iTunes store (or whatever it is now called) and search for a RAW converter or perhaps RAW editor that works on your OS. Might have to convert to TIFF, might not be DNG capable??

    Converting to DNG in another raw converter will almost certainly mean that this DNG is linear RGB, not raw. You might as well convert to TIFF then.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    JohanElzenga
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    November 22, 2018

    Download the free Adobe DNG Converter and convert your raw images to DNG. That will be supported by older versions of Camera Raw and/or Lightroom.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    Garfield_ArbuckleAuthor
    New Participant
    November 22, 2018

    Thanks Johan,

    Will I lose anything during the conversion? Like EXIF data or something else?

    Still hoping on native support as this is quite a cumbersome solution. Nevertheless thank you for the workaround.

    Stijn

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    dj_paige
    Brainiac
    November 22, 2018

    If Lightroom or ACR doesn't work with your operating system, then the DNG converter will be your only solution. There is no solution that is not "a cumbersome solution" except to upgrade your operating system.

    You don't lose anything in the conversion to DNG.

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