How to open NEW RAW FILES with OLD LIGHTROOM

This week I show you how to edit new RAW files with an old version of lightroom.

So if you're using lightroom 5.6 or older this is how you get your raw files working in that version of the adobe editing suit.

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[formicapple]

Mate, you have just made my Mrs start to talk to me! Persuaded her to get a Nikon z50 and lenses for only to find her Lightroom version can not read them. Mrs is a happy bunny. I.m eating her food again.

[damo.hutchinson]

Thank you. I am downloading Adobe DNG converter as we speak as I have been struggling with CR3 RAW files file type in the new Canon mirrorless R series.

[VNCPhotography]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have been having this issue for YEARS and you solved it in minutes. Next time you're in Atlanta, I owe you lunch.

[RobertoRaymon]

You're a lifesaver because the DNG version 13 is for Windows 10 only. This version you tagged works for Windows 8! 👍🏾

[agustinkafka]

Great video! Now, sadly my Os system is too old for the converter itself. Do you know any other converter I can use?

[amaya]

Thanks to a roof leak I lost my old camera, so I had to get a new updated camera...which gave me this error in lightroom 5.7! Thank you so much for this, now I'm able to process my friend's baby shower pics!

[cristo]

i can understand that this video was made 3 years ago. I was using this software for windows 10, but now than i upgraded to windows 11, the programm cannot read my arw files at all..Thanks for the video though!

[porty]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS IMFO. I JUST RAN INTO THIS PROBLEM TODAY. I have an OLD MAC THAT CANNOT UPDATE ADOBE LIGHTROOM

[suzannesomewhere]

Thankyou sooo much for uploading this! It helped me a LOT!

[Steven-cmku]

Still not working for me. I have Lightroom 3.3. Did the dng download for my mac as instructed. Tried 6 different times with older download options but Lightroom still isn't recognizing. Guess it's time to invest in the subscription...

[shiftonephoto]

I hate the sub model... I do support the company, I've paid $700 in the past for photoshop and 100's to upgrade to new versions, as well as buying premiere, dreamweaver and Lightroom. Paying every month for this stuff just really annoys me. Also I jumped on CC Photoshop at a friends house to show him some stuff and half the keyboard commands are totally different which is the only way I use it, I don't hardly even know where the stuff is in the menus..

Regardless its clearly not going to change, and while the DNG is an option, it makes double the hard drive space unless you want to delete your raw files which I have a hard time doing, and if you are shooting a large event thats just even more time sitting around waiting before you can actually get work done. Just having a new camera with raw 3 now its like Adobe just has me by the balls its either take more time to get work done and use more hard drive space or pay them every month.

[nevillegoldsmith]

open with latest adobe raw edit, and save to tiff or jpg

[rebornxd]

Great video, but this did not work for the RAW files from my A74 to Photoshop Lightroom Classic. Any other advice?

[alexnilson]

will this cause the editing ability of the raw files to decrease? or will it still be the same quality

[themissalem]

Hi, Mike! I'm trying to solve a problem here but if no success. Watching your video made me think that maybe this is happening because I still use LR 5.7, and the photos I´m importing are from new devices. There are some photos that appear with an exclamation mark inside a black circle. LR says they are damaged, but when I check at windows explorer they show just fine. I guess mainly are WhatsApp photos, jpegs. I could see with mp4s files this problem doesn´t show this way. I'm guessing now if this could be happening because all file data is taken when we put a photo in WhatsApp. Have you ever faced this exclamation mark problem? Do you know how to solve it? Thanks! :)

[WatermanSurin]

I downloadedAdobe's DNG converter to convert my Sony's ARW files, but i am finding that the converter darkens the images like crazy. In camera, the photos were exposed properly, but when I brought the DNG files into lightroom, they were very dark. I had to increase the exposure slider by a whopping 2.4, and bring the shadows and blacks up by 61 and 49 respectively - to get an image that looked properly exposed....

[wolfrehm]

That was the way I did since I bought the Lumix FZ2000 as my old payed lightroom couldn‘t use the Panasonic RAW-Format.
A good hint, not to delete the original RAW-Files to use them in another software later. 😉👍🏻

[FranklinEspino]

As a hobbyist, I can't justify the subscription so I need to go thru this annoying step. At this point I'm used to it. It makes me select the good ones before converting and importing to Lightroom.

[ИскренВасилев-эр]

This truly helped me a lot. THANK YOU!

[ohitsdarren]

damn! this saved me! But I am currently facing an issue which is that after converting the raw files to DNG, the image darkens by a lot, is there a way to change that?