Problem with ACR 7 support of Canon 5D Mark III

Just purchased LR4 with ACR7 (upgrade from LR3.6 - not happy about that either, but I am mostly over it) and tried to import photos from my Canon 5D Mark III. Import feature sees all the .CR2 files but when I try to import them it complains that it does not recognize that file format. Not happy.

Unfortunately two important cameras, the Canon 5D.3 and the Nikon D800, came out during the transition between LR3/4 and PS-CS5/6 so Adobe released beta versions of LR and ACR to help tide people over, but what gets released when is kindof messy during the transition.
A major version release requires debugging and testing so the functionality, including new camera support, must be frozen earlier as compared to mid-version camera-support releases that have minimal coding changes. ACR7-beta functionality was frozen back in February so has even less camera support than ACR6.7 beta, which confused PS-CS6-beta users as well.
Just so you’re aware, there is a bug when doing extreme adjustments in the new toning model and geometric lens-corrections have been applied, so be careful with that in the new LR4.1 RC2. Eric Chan has said the bug will be fixed in the release version of LR 4.1. The same bugs exist in the final ACR 6.7 that came out within the last week, so it is unclear what the status of a bugfix is for PS-CS5 users.
Here is a forum post with more information. Also check out the other threads people refer to with other examples of the bug:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4380573#4380573

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Camera Raw-compatible Adobe applications
EOS 5D Mark II
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Photoshop CS5
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Photoshop CS4
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Purchase CS6 full version (CS4 is too old to qualify for an upgrade)
Join the Cloud
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Just a bit worrisome, too... One would expect a suite of products should be managed and coordinated as a cohesive unit - no matter how big the company, no matter what the history. But what motivates an organization to release one part early, before related software is ready? Then we see updates of that early release come out as beta versions (RCs) several times, so maybe it wasn't really ready... A Marketing experiment?
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