Lightroom CC 2015.5 and Lightroom 6.5 have been released today, with panorama improvements and bug fixes, as well as the usual new camera/lens support and bug fixes. (For the update links, skip to the end of the post.)
24 hours on, some Mac users are reporting a permissions error message when launching Lightroom. When following the instructions in the tech note, ensure that you “Apply to enclosed items“.
There’s also a bug with lens metadata not being added to the catalog on import. A fix is forthcoming and you won’t lose any data.
So what’s new?
Dust or sensor spots appear in the same place on every image, and retouching them individually can take a long time on a huge panorama. Until this release, any spot removal already applied to the source photos was ignored when merging. No more! Now you can fix your dust spots on one photo, sync the corrections to the other photos, and they’ll be applied during the merge process.
One thing to note is that these spot corrections are ‘baked in’ to the resulting merged image data, so you can’t go back and edit them in the finished panorama. Other spots that only need to be removed on a single image are best left until the finished merged image is available.
Other smaller updates are listed with the bug fixes at the bottom of the post.
New camera support:
- Canon EOS1D X Mark II
- Canon EOS 80D
- Canon EOS 1300D (Rebel T6, Kiss X80)
- Nikon D5
- Nikon D500
- Olympus PEN-F
- Olympus SH3
- Panasonic DMC-CM10
- Panasonic DMC-GF8
- Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (DMC-ZS110, DMC-TZ100, DMC-TZ101, DMC-TZ110, DMC-TX1)
- Samsung NX3300
- Sony Alpha a6300 (ILCE6300)
- Yuneec CGO4
- Click to view the full list of supported cameras
Tethering for new cameras:
- No new tethering in this release.
- Click to view the full list of cameras supported for tethering.
- Note that tethering Leica cameras on Mac 10.11 El Capitan is still not working – it’s waiting on an update from Leica.
New lens profiles:
Android
- Huawei Nexus 6P
- LG nexus 5X
Canon EF Mount
- SIGMA 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM A016
Canon EF-M Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Fujifilm X Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Nikon F Mount
- Nikon AFP DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.55.6G VR
- Nikon AFP DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.55.6G
- Nikon AFS NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR
- Nikon AFS ZoomNIKKOR 28-70mm f/2.8D IFED
Olympus Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Bower 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC DN C016
Panasonic Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
Pentax K Mount
- HD PENTAXDA 55-300mm F45.8 ED WR
Samsung NX Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Bower 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
SIGMA Mount
- SIGMA 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM A016
Sony E Mount
- Bower 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Rokinon 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- Samyang 16mm f2 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 21mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC CS
- Samyang 300mm f/6.3 ED UMC CS
- SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC DN C016
Sony FE Mount
- Rokinon 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC
- Samyang 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
- Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM
- Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM
Click here for the full list of available Adobe Lens Profiles
Further user-created profiles can be downloaded using the Lens Profile Downloader (scroll down slightly, it’s at the end of the Resources section on that link)
Loads of bug fixes:
There are a number of bug fixes. These are the main ones:
- Mobile sync is now faster thanks to a number of sync-related bug fixes.
- Fixed – Sync wasn’t automatically being logged in on first launch.
Import
- Fixed – Rename failed if raw+jpeg pairs were copied to a second location.
- Fixed – The tethering toolbar wouldn’t move.
- Fixed – Import didn’t work if you weren’t signed in.
- Crashes when tethered to Canon cameras (5dm3, 5ds, 1dsm3)
- Can’t import DNG files from Parrot Bebop drone
Library
- Fixed – Scrolling through photos with the mouse in Loupe view was broken.
- Fixed – The video cache was not correctly limited to the size set in Preferences.
- Fixed – Certain dates couldn’t be entered in Edit Capture Time dialog.
- Fixed – Videos wouldn’t play on some systems.
Develop
Photo Merge
- Improvement – Boundary Warp in Panorama Merge is improved.
- Fixed – Auto checkbox in Panorama Merge is removed as it always selected Spherical.
- Fixed – Merge failed when source photos were virtual copies.
Export
Slideshow
- Fixed – Slideshow was displaying low resolution.
- Fixed – Impromptu slideshow gave error message “video support is disabled”.
- Fixed – Slideshow module wouldn’t work on some systems.
Book
Other
- After export shortcut CTRL+ALT+S not working in Develop
- Crashes when tethered to Canon cameras (5dm3, 5ds, 1dsm3)
- SDK broken edit_field’s validate function, disabling existing plugins
- Months in non-English configurations show in English
- Secondary Window blocks mouse clicks even when closed after switching desktop spaces
If you find another bug, click here to report it.
How do I update?
To update, go to Help menu > Updates or click the Update button in the CC app. The update servers take a while to push the updates around the world, to avoid crashing the servers, but if you’re in a hurry to update, here are the direct links to the patches: Windows – Mac