Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.9 arrives with new camera and lens support, loads of bug fixes: Digital Photography Review

Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.9 arrives with new camera and lens support, loads of bug fixes

Published Mar 8, 2017 | Brittany Hillen

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misterr8472

Please fix the performance issues...it's unbearable....

2 months agopermalink

dpreviewdisplayname

I am slightly loosing the joy of using Lightroom6 and am in a process of moving over to On1... LR still very slow even with updates and am also not a fan of the "subscription lifestyle" it just seems expensive for a few annual updates..

2 months agopermalink

colourgeek

As others have stated the dual screen MBP bug is not fixed with black side panels occurring for various reasons in the Dev module. Come on Adobe fix your faulty software. I just rolled back to the 2015.7 version by obligation.

2 months agopermalink

sjprg

As a programmer for many years, memory leaks denote a p**s poor programmer and poor QC. Inexcusable.

2 months agopermalink

Henry Alekna Photography

I can't seem to update mine from 2015.7, creative cloud doesn't show any updates available. I have 2015.8 on my road computer though.
Strange.

2 months ago*permalink

Gionni Dorelli

Load of bug fixes... there are a large load bugs indeed.

2 months agopermalink

Marksphoto

as part of a bug fix adobe must fix the aweful colors from it's raw converter, they haven't done that yet making lightroom useful for cataloguing only. Capture rules.

2 months agopermalink

dtibi

In LR the colors look more bad for entry level cameras, and much better for serious APSC and FF cameras. There is no such huge difference in C1. I think they are intentionally cheating.

2 months agopermalink

String

@ Marksphoto - Seriously? LR (and PS as they use the same RAW convertor) is useful for "cataloguing only" because of its "aweful colors". All those millions of users never use LR/PS for processing images... wow, you learn something new every day!

2 months agopermalink

Marksphoto

dtibi, where did u get that info, I get way better colors in capture from my ff canons... u better download the trial version and try it out for yourself, then compare and come back and thank me.

2 months agopermalink

Magnar W

You can't judge the quality of colors for a raw converter from default settings.

By default C1 shows more saturated colors and more sharpen than Lightroom, but this is just the default setting.

2 months agopermalink

Marksphoto

that's the brainwash adobe wants you to believe, u simply can't get the colors or the dimension that Capture can create as a converter... it's not only colors, it's overall look and feel that's different. I have used X-rite color checker with lightroom, the results are still inferior. There is nothing you can do in lightroom that will make the photo look as good as it comes out from Capture, period.

2 months agopermalink

dtibi

I compared some raws directly between FF and APSC raws in a real life situation, there was some bigger difference in LR, in Capture one they are more similar. But with some custom LR camera profile tweaking and processing the results can be very-very similar or near identical, of course without pixel peeping.
And yes, everybody is frustrated by the moment when you import the images to LR, and you lose that exposure, color, atmosphere what you get as JPEG (or the image on the back of camera or thumbnail preview in raws, whichever you prefer the most as default look)
I agree, I can't really tell why but I have overall better experience with c1 too, in terms of colors and tools for color corrections.

2 months ago*permalink

dtibi

Also i think the brainwash part is also kinda true.
The funniest thing was to own for a few months an old canon g12 and it had better dynamic range (more shadow detail, kinda less noise) at base ISO than any apsc before 2014.

2 months ago*permalink

dtibi

i tried some cameras because i buy stuff with some minor defects, i fix them, I play around with it, and when i get bored, i sell it. My next guest will be a 50D.

2 months ago*permalink

Marksphoto

it maybe true for Nikon raw conversions, I didn't find much difference, but with the canons, man oh man, I am a better photographer because of C1.

2 months agopermalink

Lawrie Robertson

This update seemed to create a new bug - the blackout of the two side panels in the Develop module in Mac Sierra OS. No predicting this. Only consistent fix is to click on the top green option for changing screen size or reload. This did not occur prior to installing 2015.9.

2 months agopermalink

jchapell

This exact issue actually began happening to me this week before the recent update..

2 months agopermalink

ZurichPhoto

Fixing Bugs? Next time how about squashing the 50lb Tarantula that's called operating speed and forces many LR users to buy other buy other programs just to cull their files. Just a thought -- and that one been shared for years by thousands of users. Prioirties?

2 months agopermalink

Bernie Ess

I updated my Adobe components to the mentioned versions (LR 2015.9, Adobe Raw 9.9 etc) and yet I cannot open the Fuji GFx Raw files downloaded from the new sample series published here on dpreview. Has anyone managed to open those?

2 months agopermalink

tonyreidsma

The curves adjustment via magic mouse on mac still isn't fixed.

2 months agopermalink

CameraCarl

But still no fix for the side panel black out issue that has been affecting Mac users for five months with versions LR CC 2015.9 and higher. The best we get is an annoying workaround or the suggestion that we roll back to CC 2015.7 or .8.
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-panels-black-issue.html

2 months agopermalink

stawarz

Still no fix for dropper/picker offset (off by half dropper icon width/height) on any tool such as white balance, etc.. when on a 4k/UHD display in Windows, sigh...

2 months agopermalink

Fujica

I wonder when we will be able to see LR 2017 / LR7.

Can't be long its the only software within the total CC suite that still carries the 2015 name.

Next to that we have LR 6.9 and ACR 9.9.

I really hope for a BIG update!

2 months agopermalink

sssanti

I hope Lightroom 7 is released soon. I should include a working photo book module with the ability to customize pages and layouts to fit any photo book supplier.
The current exclusivity with Blurb does not make any sense.

2 months ago*permalink

David Franklin

I hope that the otherwise innocuous bullet point near the end of the list - fixing the "memory leak" - is really the important fix I hope it is. Using Lightroom on my very, very highly specified and powerful new PC has been tortuous, with the program bogging down to 1990-like computing speed, moving as through molasses with the display taking forever to refresh the images after making adjustments. Yes, I know, use the new fast graphics processor, or don't use it, never mind: nothing works short of turning the program off and back on again, a pathetic "cure." Here's hoping!

2 months agopermalink

ThomJ

It's been getting increasingly and frustratingly slow with each update for the past year, so, fingers crossed they've finally fixed this issue!

2 months agopermalink

yoyogross

agreed lr is the biggest resource hog on my system and its not top of the line but its a i7 4790 16 gb ram gtx 960 256 gb ssd a couple of hdd
windows 10 with all of microsofts background c()^&%*&%
turned off in the registry

yes to all the people who are gonna say increase your cache to 70 gb and yes i turned off gpu proccesing since im on a 1080p screen and yes i use smart preveiws and render 1to1 preveiws\

but its still slow a f----

2 months agopermalink

D500 001

Tried and true software since when did it begin? Still two dozen bug fixes. It's a good thing Adobe doesn't wire homes for a living.

2 months agopermalink

CheersUK

Armchair programmers, best programmers.

2 months agopermalink

D500 001

As if there isn't a legitimate beef with Adobe rolling out junk to the consumer and using them as testers. Consumers pays for a product and should get a product that is up to snuff. It is their professional duty to get the product right.

2 months agopermalink

CheersUK

You have never programmed, have you?

2 months agopermalink

D500 001

How old or young are you cheers? Explain to us why a group of consumers should purchase a product and have to assist in making the product usable. Should consumers work out the bugs of a heart transplant, the internal combustion engine of their auto, the wiring in their home and a myriad of the consumer goods? Adobe has come up short time after time, accept that fact or not.

2 months agopermalink

Anaxagoras

You say: "It's a good thing Adobe doesn't wire homes for a living."

Home rewire: two skilled electricians for about a week. Shouldn't be too difficult to get it right.

Adobe Lightroom: about 190 highly skilled IT professionals working continuously year round. I think one or two errors might creep in.

2 months agopermalink

CameraLabTester

"Loads of BUG fixes."

Made my coffee come out my nose...

Have a happy day to all!

2 months agopermalink

Cameracist

Made coffee come out of my nose as well, but I'm a little bit worried... I wasn't drinking any.

2 months agopermalink

jwalker019

Still on v2015.x . . . where's 2017?!

Just sayin' ;)

2 months agopermalink

thx1138

More to the point the processing engine is 5 years old and it is clearly being bettered by the likes of DPP (Canon), DxO and C1 Pro 10. I was shocked to see how much better DPP and DxO 11 did at extracting fine detail than LR for my 5DsR and the superior lens profiles and it seems deconvolution used to correct aberrations improved edge and corner performance too a lot more.

2 months agopermalink

RPJG

thx1138, can you post some examples? That would be interesting to see.

2 months agopermalink

photo_rb

They must be rolling this out gradually because I can't get the update to show on my system...the Photoshop/Camera Raw update was there yesterday but so far no Lightroom.

2 months agopermalink

digidog

Log out of your CC subscription, then back in, it forces an update. Or in Creative Cloud App, [Cmd/Ctrl]+[Opt/Alt]+[ R ] to refresh that app.

2 months agopermalink

photo_rb

Thanks but no luck. I may try restarting my Mac but is it possible this is because I am in Canada?

2 months agopermalink

martincan

You can download the update manually from
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-downloads.html
Expand the Lightroom 6 section and it shows the base installer and all updates that you can download.
I can't understand why Adobe tries to hide manual downloads of their updates, but there are a lot of things about Adobe that don't make sense to me.

2 months agopermalink

paul simon king

I specs its so their servers don't crash

Annoying though as my standalone LR never picks up upgrades, not before 3-6 months at any rate

2 months agopermalink

willyucan

I hope they fixed the adjustment panel "black out" issue when switching modules. I was forced to revert back to a previous version because that bug makes LR completely unusable. it's not specifically mentioned but I still have my hope up...

reference to the issue: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2256515

2 months ago*permalink

Mariusz of PL

Still no DEHAZE mode in stand-alone version.

2 months agopermalink

left eye

...there is a plugin which unlocks the capability already built into LR standalone.

It works very well, see this...

https://cutthruthefog.wordpress.com/lightroom-6-dehaze/

2 months ago*permalink

left eye

DeHaze download for standalone LR6 here...

https://cutthruthefog.wordpress.com/lrhaze-version-history/

2 months agopermalink

hikerdoc

Correct. As they clearly stated at release of stand alone version, new features would be available with CC, but not with stand alone version until the next major update. They have provided you with the options you selected, and none of the flexibility you did not want.

2 months agopermalink

toni2

@hikerdoc 'flexibility'? Call it force you to buy the CC version.
Speak clearly, not as you were a marketing man.

2 months ago*permalink

Dr_Jon

i assume my work-around will still function:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/55998101

2 months agopermalink

yoyogross

@drjon yes it does

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