Fuji RAW - What do I need to know for Adobe/Lightroom?

Currently, I'm editing on Lightroom 4 with the occasional import into Photoshop CS3. I'm planning on jumping onto the Fuji ship in order to downsize my gear. What should I know about processing? I'm guessing Adobe can't handle the Raw files from the XPro2 yet?

I have been using LR5 ever since Fuji started making these great cameras. I have always used RAW with out a problem.If you will be using XPro2 it would be available shortly.

Lightroom CC has support for X-pro2 raf files. Other than that there is little to know.

Nathan wrote in post #17926975
Currently, I'm editing on Lightroom 4 with the occasional import into Photoshop CS3.

I think the newest Fuji X system camera Lightroom 4 supports is the X100S.

Could there be backwards compatibility?

Nathan wrote in post #17927138
Could there be backwards compatibility?

I'm not a Lightroom expert, but I don't believe so. I think you would need to convert the files to DNG (Adobe has a free converter). There's been a lot of improvements in Lightroom since 4, I think it would be worth the upgrade.

LR 6 has improvements in de-mosaicing x-trans files.

If you are are actually going to use Photoshop, then the CC photographic suite has a great price point. You can always run the latest raw converter to convert into DNG and go from there, but you lose a lot of convenience by doing this.

X-Pro2 is only supported by the latest Lightroom release and yes, it is already supported.

I'm running one installation of CC (LR + PS) on two machines and a standard license LR 6.4 on two more machines. But I don't own an X-Pro2, "only" X-E2, X-T1 and X100T.

I have LR5 in a box, but my macbook doesn't have the OS to run it. Someone corrected my thinking in a recent thread somewhere... before I wasn't able to upgrade to anything beyond Snow Leopard. I think the late 2008 might be able to now, but I have to check. Before, it rejected an attempt to upgrade to Mountain Lion and I think I need at least that for LR5

Ive got LR 6 on my MacBook so no comparability issues on that front. You will likely need to upgrade to LR6 for xpro2 raws. I had to do that fir a7rii raws. Adobe don't generally make old versions compatible so that people keep buying the latest versions

Edit - just realised you have an older Mac so ignore my comment above about the macbook

The LR camera profiles are pretty good if you want to emulate some of the Fuji in-camera profiles like Classic Chrome, Provia, etc. with your RAW files too. The only big difference I've noticed is with my sharpening settings, where I use very different LR defaults between Canon and Fuji RAW files.

Nathan wrote in post #17927468
I have LR5 in a box, but my macbook doesn't have the OS to run it. Someone corrected my thinking in a recent thread somewhere... before I wasn't able to upgrade to anything beyond Snow Leopard. I think the late 2008 might be able to now, but I have to check. Before, it rejected an attempt to upgrade to Mountain Lion and I think I need at least that for LR5

It all comes down to the specific processor you have in your machine and whether or not it supports 64-bit applications. You'll need to have the Intel Core 2 Duo processor at a minimum in order to run OS 10.7 (Lion), which is needed to run Lightroom 5. However, even if you do happen to have this processor, chances are that your laptop runs at 32-bit by default and as far as I know, there is no permanent way to configure it to run 64-bit. You need to enable it manually upon restart. Not a big deal if you're the type to just put your laptop to sleep rather than powering down.