Pentax K-5 and K-r

Hi there,
any chance to include shortly the new Pentax DSLR K-5 and K-r in Camera Raw?
cheers
Gerd

Same reply:
How do you come to that questionable conclusion, Oodini? Where do you think you read that?
You can't base that on the size of the file alone, as an uncompressed DNG file will of course be larger than a corresponding compressed raw file.
I can assure you that the DNGs from my K20D are absolutely undemosaiced raw DNG files and in no way "linearized". I assume you do understand the concept of linear files—which raw files are.
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Hello,
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Regards

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Hello,
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Thanks in advance.
Regards

I have made some test with my dslr and lens on LR 3.6 and 4.0 beta!
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Thanks acai, am aware of the other posts, and have contributed to, or even started many of them.
My concern is that this continues to happen update after update, and am curious if Anyone is getting acceptable results from Aperture 3 with this camera.
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removed and reinstalled all prokit updates.
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created new accounts in OSX.
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