I recently purchased a Canon 4'D and tried to import some files into Lightroom. I got the following error message - "The following files were not imported. The files use an unsupported color mode." My camera color space is set to sRGB. I am a serious amature at both photography and digital imaging software. Can anyone tell me why I am getting this message? Thanks for your help.
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Unsupported Color Mode
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JSB, computer? OS? LR version? File import type?
All of these are important background for a sensible answer.
All of these are important background for a sensible answer.
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Welcome to the forum JSB!
Best guess - which version of LR are you using? You'd need at least 1.2 for standard 4'd raw, or 1.3.1 for sRAW. They're free updates. 1.4 is a fairly solid update (except for a DNG bug for Windows which is causing trouble)
Best guess - which version of LR are you using? You'd need at least 1.2 for standard 4'd raw, or 1.3.1 for sRAW. They're free updates. 1.4 is a fairly solid update (except for a DNG bug for Windows which is causing trouble)
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Great news JSB!
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how to install the new download
I'm a newbie to LR and have 1.'. Found this post and see I need to download 1.1, which is on my desktop; I've followed the install instructions. I don't know how to "get" it into lightroom. LR still won't recognize my raw images. Can you help? thank you!
Mac OSX 1'.4.11
I'm a newbie to LR and have 1.'. Found this post and see I need to download 1.1, which is on my desktop; I've followed the install instructions. I don't know how to "get" it into lightroom. LR still won't recognize my raw images. Can you help? thank you!
Mac OSX 1'.4.11
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I'd suggest you start by downloading 1.4.1 from Adobe; your 1.' serial number will work with it. I don't remember exactly when the 4'D came out and which versions of Lightroom support it, but you might as well start with the most recent 1.x version.
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