Lightroom 3.2 not fully supports the LX5 Raw format ?

Question

I can use the normal Panasonic Lumix Raw files with Lightroom 3.2 just fine.
As soon as I use the LX5 intelligent Zoom feature is LR3.2 (and Camera Raw from CS5) not able to use these files anymore.
Anybody else found this or has a solution - other than not using this feature.

Answer 1

As I understand it the i zoom feature is a processing tool, it either makes a standard image look like a higher resolution one by processing the contour areas, texture areas and smooth areas individually, or it digitally boosts the zoom magnification from 24x to 32x etc. Processing tools may be written into meta data and read by some RAW processors that may emulate this, but on the whole LR ignores them. The exception being the lens correction data written into RAW data by micro fourthirds cameras, so perhaps, Adobe will include this as it does seem they are worked with by micro fourthirds people, (unlike CanoniKon, who seem to work against them!) But for the time being I assume LR would have to ignore it any way as there doesn't exist in LR 3 a tool that does exactly what i zoom and i resolution does on micro fourthirds cameras...
Being a big fan of micro fourthirds machines myself, what's the new LX5 like...it has always been one of the most imaginative of all compacts throughout its life time, I love the LX2 and the 16:9 sensor, but 4:3's is  the future for both still and hand-held video photography. Panasonic do some interesting processing stuff and having no software of their own to sell do seem to work closly with Adobe. The new camera profiling tool in LR 3 seems to owe a lot to the processing that goes on inside micro fourthirds cameras to deal with the inherent weaknesses of lenses on small sensors. So I can see the i zoom, i resolution interoperation techniques making there way into LR as well..