Except the plugin is different(I suspect you're confising plugin and camera profiles). There's a fair bit of internal differences between ACR 2 and ACR 3, and while camera profiles are common to both, actually adding the recognition portion of the code and testing it will be different (There's two parts to adding support for a camera, one is the profile and the other is to modify the file type recognition, the latter is the issue).
There's no economic justification for Adobe to continue to support long-discontinued software like Photoshop CS and Elements 2, neither of which has been available from Adobe for 2 years. And since they'd have to setup a group to QC the updates, this is a cost issue where Adobe will have no income to justify the costs. -Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > On this one, I suspect there's a bit of profit motive involved. The new > camera specs and their RAW file parameters are identical whether it's > ACR 3 or ACR 2. If you write a plug-in for one, I'm sure it's easy to > transport it to the other. I use both a lot. ACR 3 adds a few > features. In every other way, they're identical. But I'm not > complaining. Profit is important. Keeps our favorite software provider > in business. > Paul > On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Thibouille wrote: >> >>>> Adding new cameras to the Camera Raw 2.x plugin would mean >>>> maintaining a second parallel development effort, which would be too >>>> costly. ... >>> They might have without too much trouble IMO ... >> Trust me. I worked with the folks at Adobe extensively, once knew >> lots of folks in their development groups very well personally. There >> are no resources to maintain a parallel development effort on Camera >> Raw, it would have cost a lot of money and time just to set it up. >> >>> Fair enough. I'd just don't want anyone (Adobe or any other) to sell >>> me a product which is low cost because support is essentially absent. >> That's not the way they work. Adobe has always been very good on >> support. >> >> Godfrey >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
