A release candidate LR4.1 is available for download at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4-1/. This includes the ability to read files from the 5D mk III. I have installed this already. Rather strangely, with LR4.0 many people complained of sluggish performance. I was quite happy. However this beta update seems slower to me than LR4.0. I cannot publish to Flickr either. Adobe is looking for feedback and this is after all not a full release so gremlins should be expected.
Here are 2 images with the 5D mk III from today freshly imported with the update 🙂
A frog he would a-wooing go
The caption is from an old nursery rhyme and took me back in my mind to early childhood and I can still hear the tune in my head…
A frog he would a-wooing go,
Hey ho, says Rowley,
A frog he would a-wooing go,
Whether his mother would let him or no.
With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinich,
Hey ho, says Anthony Rowley.
And here is one of my fungus shots:
Fungus on tree branch
I had tried to do this as a stack in Helicon Focus but I simply wasn’t happy with the result. In fact I failed with two stacks today. HF is not cheap – registration for lifetime use id US$200 at the time of writing so I need to improve my tripod stability as even after 45 minutes of retouching I wasn’t satisfied. I tried to use this, my insurance shot, to correct the flaws but could not get it to work. I need to find a way of having this in the list of imported images as a retouching option but not in the actual stack build. If anybody knows how to do this please let me know!
More Macau coming soon.
All downhill from here 
Wow Andrew! The frogs are an absolute winner! My favourite macro image from your collection so far:)