I am having trouble downloading to lightroom from my 5d mark iv, I downloaded the software

[frieling]

I downloaded the software and restarted my computer but my 5d mark iv will not download to Lightroom, I see the images when I press import but after it looks like it is downloading it tells me it can not download to lightroom, thoughts.

[jrhoffman75]

If you are shooting RAW it's probably because LR hasn't been updated yet for the 5D Mark IV. 

Install EOS Utility and see if that downloads OK. 

[kvbarkley]

You will have to use DPP until Lightroom is updated.

[RobertTheFat]

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@kvbarkley wrote:

You will have to use DPP until Lightroom is updated.

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Version 4 of DPP is maddeningly slow, and its GUI has some clumsy aspects. But it stores its (nondestructive) changes directly in the .CR2 file, which I consider to be a critical advantage over Lightroom. Ernie Biggs will probably ridicule me for saying that (he usually does), but there it is.

Ehhhh... "Ridicule" is too strong a word. But he'll have something to say in LR's defense. 

[frieling]

Thanks for the responses

[kvbarkley]

DPP does have one thing going for it, at this writing, it is the only option for 5d mark IV raw files.

[RobertTheFat]

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@kvbarkley wrote:

DPP does have one thing going for it, at this writing, it is the only option for 5d mark IV raw files.

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And when LR does catch up, you'd better be using the rental version.

[ebiggs1]

B from B,

"Ehhhh... "Ridicule" is too strong a word."

It seems several of you like to use, "too strong a word".  Must be a character flaw in your upbringing. But at any rate Lightroom needs no update it will handle the Mk IV.  It is ACR that requires the update.  A new ACR will work with LR CC and LR6 but probably not any previous version of LR.  BTW, it will not work with CS6 (PS).

This is Canon's fault. Not Adobe's!  Canon seems to think they need to make tiny changes to each CR2 of each new model. No other format does this, not tiff nor jpg. It is ridiculous. This nonsense extends to all 3rd party converters not just Adobe.

[kvbarkley]

It is not the CR2 format itself. Each camera needs to be profiled - In fact there is software around to let you do this for your own personal camera. Because of variations in the bayer array and filters you cannot just assume that the colors will be correct for any given camera even though the file format is the same.

There was a good luminous landscape article on this, but since it is now behind a paywall I cannot link to it.

I did find this on DPReview:

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6497352654/get-more-accurate-color-with-camera-calibration-

[ebiggs1]

I am not saying there isn't a technical reason for each camera's RAW file to be different and unreadable, maybe there is.  I am saying from years of experience with this stuff, there isn't a good reason for it. I don't buy the profile difference which they likely do but don't need to.

The fact you can create camera profiles any way you want sorta substantiates that.  Doesn't it?  It is also sorta silly that the extension remains CR2 but is unreadable.  What's up with that?  I haven't tried but DNG probably reads a Mk IV RAW file.

Adobe, usually, releases updates to ACR about 90 days apart.  Maybe four per year so that keeps them a little behind the curve.

But what do I know?  Not much.