I cannot open RW2 stills images from my new Panasonic GH4 in Lightroom 5.4, Raw 8.4 or DNG conveter 8.4. Thet do not open in the CC version of Lightroom or Photoshop either. when or how can I resolve this?

The only way at this point I have found to open the files is the SilkyPix software that came with the camera. I have sent SilkyPix an email to see if they will offer a DNG conversion option. At this point only jpeg or tiff is the available option.
So I export all the files out (unaltered) from SilkyPix to tiff, then import into Lightroom 5.4 as DNGs.

photogetgo wrote:
True, and I did contact them about offering a DNG export option which I think would be a good move in any event as other raw for,mats are offering that for future file opening protection
That would solve the issue if they could export the raw data as a DNG. But that's unlikely. They probably don't want to provide you the option of using another raw converter (for whatever silly reasons). It appears they offer the option of saving a DNG of the rendered not raw data but that doesn't buy you anything. Bottom line is, you have to wait on Adobe to update the proprietary raw format that has no reason to be proprietary in the first place. The optional JPEG most cameras provide isn't proprietary and everyone has access to that data the day the camera ships. But for some politically stupid reasons, the camera manufacturers don't do this with the raw data and we all get to wait on every other company who's raw converter we'd like to use to spend the time and money to update the format. It will eventually happen, begging the question why the camera manufacturer's do this in the first place.

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