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Suhit Gupta
07-19-2006, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/200607/071906Lightroom.pdf' target='_blank'>http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/200607/071906Lightroom.pdf</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the public beta of Adobe® Lightroom™ software for the Windows platform, a digital imaging workflow solution for professional photographers. Now available for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Adobe Lightroom beta is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Windows-based photographers now have the opportunity to assist with the development of Lightroom by testing this new beta download and submitting feedback to the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom">Adobe Labs forums</a>."</i><br /><br />Warning - link is to a PDF file. A radical new user interface and high quality RAW processing features are the big news items here. The latest camera models supported by this beta now include Cannon EOS 30D, Epson R-D1s, Leaf Aptus 65 and Aptus 75, Olympus EVOLT E-330 and SP-320, Pentax *ist DL2 and Samsung GX-1S. Lightroom beta 1.0 for Windows is available for free download from the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom">Adobe Labs Web site</a>.

Jason Dunn
07-19-2006, 10:10 PM
Well, the Adobe site is pretty slow right now, but I'm downloading the 113 MB version and getting 900 KB/s, so they have a decent amount of bandwidth for serving this up. I'm looking forward to it!