Canon 5D MrkII & Photoshop CS3

I cannot believe that Adobe has abandoned users of CS3 and new Canon cameras!!
I just found out that to convert RAW files from the Canon 5d MrkII, we need Camera Raw 5 or later. Camera Raw 5 or later WILL NOT work with CS3!!
So if you purchase a Canon 5d MrkII and plan to keep using CS3, it will NOT WORK. You will need to purchase Lightroom 2 or Photoshop CS4 or some other raw converting software.
I guess this is one way to SHOVE UPGRADES down users throats.

There are more users still using CS3 than CS4. If Adobe is going to continue to "support" CS3 for the millions of users, how hard can it be to allow the plug-in (i.e., camera raw update) to support those loyal users that have spent millions (i.e. hundreds of millions) of dollars.
By the way, camera raw 5 is NOT compatible with CS3. The latest verson for CS3, 4.6, will not work with new cameras. Plus, you said that camera raw 5 was worth the upgrade, I have never paid for camera raw upgrades.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS....GIVE ME A CAMERA UPDATE THAT WILL WORK WITH CS3 AND NEW CAMERAS AND I WILL PAY THE MONEY!!!
The problem is not the price of the "camera raw" upgrade, it is the price of the upgrade to a defective product: CS4....
Adobe has adopted a plan of allowing it customers to be its "quality control" much like Microsoft. Let the users spend the money to upgrade to defective products, find the bugs, report the bugs. Apparently, there are lots of problems with CS4. My decision to NOT upgrade to CS4 for 6 to 8 months or more is a business decision. When a product does not work, it is not just the money spent on the upgrade, it is the hours of waiting on support calls (ie., today I was told that my wait for Adobe support would be in excess of 30 minutes); it is the lost hours of work that fails due to a software hangup. I need to use a product that works; if I wanted to be a beta tester I would have applied for the position.
I am not in the habit of paying hard earned money for a product that everyone knows has tons of problems.

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Hey Ho!
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