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Adobe Lightroom 1.2 Released

To my surprise I opened Lightroom last night only to be notified that version 1.2 was now available. Version 1.1 was only released a little while ago. I had a quick look through the release notes. There does not appear to be any feature enhancement just a number of bug fixes.

There is however support for some additional camera RAW files, including the Olympus E-510. Which suits me as this is now what I am using most of the time. Although, version 1.1 which officially supported the Olympus E-410 also worked with the E-510 (but very slooowly).

My first impression by processing around 30 images today is that it seems to be a little faster than version 1.1 with the E-510 RAW's but not as fast as it handles the Olympus E-300 RAW files and certainly not as fast as I would like it to be. Before you ask I am running a 3.2Gig Pentium processor with 2Gig RAM, which should be more than adequate for Lightroom.

For those who don't know Lightroom is a RAW processor and Digital Asset Management Tool.