Lightroom Classic 10.2 has been released today. As well as some performance improvements, bug fixes and new camera/lens support, the engineering team have spent this release cycle focusing specifically on performance, plus bugs from 10.0 and improved Big Sur compatibility. The entire Lightroom Cloud ecosystem has also been updated.
We will keep this blog updated as any new issues are discovered.
Performance improvements
This release has addressed a number of performance issues that came for a variety of users in 10.0 and 10.1. GPU usage and general performance bugs have been corrected. Our testing has been very positive on the success of the changes, and Adobe have taken longer than usual to correct as many known issues as possible.
As well as the GPU and behind the scenes performance fixes, improvements have also been made in:
- General: speed of checking if folders and photos are available.
- Library: Quick Develop speed improved, also on macOS switching images in Loupe and Compare is improved. Again on macOS Grid scrolling is smoother.
- Develop: Copy, Paste and Sync has been improved.
BETA – Nikon Tether Live View support
The live preview that was added for Canon in 10.0 is now also available for many Nikon cameras. It’s currently a beta feature, and doesn’t yet include the Nikon Z-series.
To use it, enable the Live View button. The Focus buttons allow you to manually adjust the focus by large or small amounts, as long as the camera is set to Auto Focus mode and Live View is enabled.
Super Resolution Import Only
You may have seen our Facebook post about the new Super Resolution feature that was added to Adobe Camera Raw last week. It’s not available in Lightroom yet, but Lightroom can now import the super-res DNG files created by Camera Raw. Full conversion will be added to Lightroom in a future release.
New camera support:
- Hasselblad DJI Mavic 2 Pro (Hasselblad L1D-20c)
- Fuji
- Fujifilm GFX 100 1R
- Fujifilm GFX 100S
- Fujifilm X-E4
- Phase One IQ4 150MP Achromatic (S14 and S14+ raw compression modes unsupported)
- Samsung
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Rear Wide Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Rear Wide Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Rear Wide Camera
- Sony Alpha 1 (ILCE-1)
- Click to view the full list of supported cameras
Tethering for new cameras:
- Canon
- EOS R6
- EOS R5
- EOS Kiss X10i
- EOS Rebel T8i
- EOS 850D
- EOS Ra
- Nikon
- Z5
- Z6 II
- Z7 II
- Click to view the full list of cameras supported for tethering
New lens correction support:
- Canon EF
- Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Series II
- Tokina atx-i 11-20mm F2.8 CF
- Canon RF
- Samyang AF 85mm F1.4 RF
- Leica M
- Voigtlander VN50mm f/1.5 Nokton Aspherical II MC
- Voigtlander VN50mm f/1.5 Nokton Aspherical II SC
- Nikon F
- Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 Series II
- Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Series II
- Tokina atx-i 11-20mm F2.8 CF
- Olympus MFT
- Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Series II
- Voigtlander MFT 29mm f0.8 Super Nokton Aspherical
- Samsung
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Front Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Rear Telephoto Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Rear Wide Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Front Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Rear Telephoto Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21+ Rear Wide Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Front Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Rear Telephoto Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Rear Wide Camera
- Sigma L
- SIGMA 24mm F3.5 DG DN C021
- SIGMA 35mm F2 DG DN C020
- SIGMA 65mm F2 DG DN C020
- SIGMA 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO A020
- SIGMA 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO A020 + TC-1411
- SIGMA 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO A020 + TC-2011
- Sony E
- TAMRON 17-70mm F/2.8 Di III-A VC RXD B070
- Sony FE
- Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Series I|
- Samyang AF 75mm F1.8
- SIGMA 24mm F3.5 DG DN C021
- SIGMA 35mm F2 DG DN C020
- SIGMA 65mm F2 DG DN C020
- SIGMA 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO A020
- Sony FE 35mm F1.4 GM
- Tokina atx-m 85mm F1.8 FE
Click here for the full list of available Adobe Lens Profiles
Bug fixes:
There are lots of bug fixes, but Adobe only publishes the ones that were reported by users:
- Slow UI when using Mac and Custom Display Profile
- Mac Crashes (Kernel Panic)
- Mac Crashes – GPU
- Various issues on Windows and Mac that were solved by disabling GPU are thought to be fixed, so you can try turning GPU back on in preferences if you turned it off.
- Library zoomed view shows wrong color
- Presets containing Radial and Brush adjustments broken on some portrait images
- Launching Lightroom resets shared media cache location for Pr, Ae, Au and Me
- “Open as layers in Photoshop” function broken after update
- Using «Tab» key skips highlights slider in brush panel
- Copy/Sync Crop and Spot Removal wrong results at portrait photos
- Save Metadata To File doesn’t change metadata status, Read Metadata From File doesn’t always work
- Image preview with grain are bad unless zoomed in when using smart previews
- Truncated fields and font glitches in Metadata panel
- White balance doesn’t copy correctly with preset and custom camera profile
- SDK: photo:getRawMetadata (“stackPositionInFolder”) returns a string, not a number
- “None” doesn’t appear in Library Filter bar Keyword column until restart
- Rendering problem with saturated colors using Graphics Processor
If you find another bug, click here to learn how to report it to Adobe.
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 overloading the servers. You can also open the Creative Cloud app, click Update on the left, then click the … icon (top right) and Check for Updates to give it a nudge.
Lightroom Classic book
The eBooks for Adobe Lightroom Classic – The Missing FAQ are already updated for these changes, and can be downloaded immediately after purchasing. If you already have a current Lightroom Classic Premium Membership, the updated eBooks are available for download in your Members Area.
Sorry to see that the new Enhance tool in ACR 13.2 didn’t make it to LR. One big thing included is the new Apple ProRaw profile which is a big deal for those who shoot with the iPhone 12 Pro & Max.
Agreed. Adobe official comment on Enhance:
Super Resolution is now shipping in Camera Raw 13.2 and will be coming soon to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.
what about the extreme lagging of the previous 10 versions ?
Seems to be fixed!
This indicates teathering for Canon R1.
does she know something we don’t???
Sorry! My typo. Canon Ra!
Has anybody tested the tethering on a Nikon Z6II? It doesn’t work for me, it works fine with the Z6. LR cannot find the Z6II camera.
The Adobe website is ambiguous: does “MacOS only” mean that only MacOS supports the tethering or that only MacOS users need version 10.2??
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html?mv=affiliate&mv2=red
Tethering for the indicated cameras is available on macOS, but all are encouraged to update to 10.2 (for all the other reasons mentioned in the blog)
Thank you again for all you do. I hope you realize how important you and Paul are to me and I suspect all of us are. The LRQ in my go-to.
I second that. Awesome resource!
Ditto all the way! LRQ has been my LR rock! Thanks for all your testing, info sharing, and on and on….
Thank you, much appreciated!
Hi Victoria. What’s also new in Lightroom Classic is that you can actually import “Super resolution files” you created in Camera Raw. This wasn’t possible before the upgrade.
// Jani Westman
Oh well spotted, I’ll add that to the main post.
Thanks Victoria. I’m wondering when tethering will be introduced for the Canon EOS90D. Is this Canon’s decision or Adobe’s? Or perhaps both?
Have you tried it? I’m wondering if they’ve just forgotten to put it on the list.
Having LRC 10.0 currently, I guess this would be a good time to update.
Yeah, it’s looking pretty good. If there were any significant issues, I’d expect to be seeing reports by now, but there’s only minor glitches so far.
LRC 10.0 on Big Sur 11.0
Please add a warning note that grain effect is not rendered properly in Develop mode in 10.2 release. And of course Adobe is rushing to correct it with a hotfix 10.2.1 release as a normal company (raking in bags of money) will do in this situation…. in a parallel universe though.
The issue has been logged and acknowledged by Adobe, here’s the thread to add comments to:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-102-grain-effects-render-incorrectly-in-develop-module/60511d813facef17f7f33996
I presume the bugs and crashes associated with MacOS High Sierra have been overcome and there is no reason not to up-date
Not to update what exactly? Lightroom Classic 10.2 has overcome a lot of the issues we saw in 10.x. However, High Sierra isn’t supported with 10.x, Mojave is the oldest OS that is supported.
Thanks
With LrC 10.2, I still get the “Unexpected error opening catalog” that I got in 10.1.1, although 10.1 works fine. I operate a 2017 iMac running Big Sur 11.3. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Hi Scott
I see you posted this on the Adobe Photoshop Forum, which is a good move. It seems others have experienced the same, your post will likely get merged:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-errors-when-trying-to-open-a-catalog/60903921a8e98c342a7aa419
The more occurrences and evidence, the better it helps Adobe sort it. Meantime roll back to 10.1 is a sensible move.
Thank you Paul. They did merge my post to https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-102-message-the-catalog-could-not-be-opened-due-to-an-unexpected-error/6053bbc46a47e07e023ea606?page=2, where an Admin, #Rikk, is moderating.
That thread goes back at least a month. we’ll see where it goes.
That’s good. Rikk is a top Adobe guy, also the thread is marked as ‘Acknowledged’, shows it’s been reproduced (by Adobe) and a solution is underway.
Here’s something that’s new in 10.2. Reverting back to 10.1 makes this issue go away. This bug is specific to Mac users.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-loses-connection-with-files-after-folder-is-renamed/606b4850995306385df2af0e?commentId=60a43e94f529971d2cb7a5f1&replyId=60a45a76d2798b5098935a3a