LR 3 was fantastic. With LR4 the auto settings make the program useless (Darks are too dark And Lights are too bright!) I don't understand why the highlight recovery button is not existing anymore....

On top of my earlier complaints, I must stress that the exported jpegs retain little (if any at all) of the original metadata. For instance, both the Finder and EXIF viewers, such as Exif Everywhere, will show the export date as the file creation date. In other words, an image shot in, say, December 2007, and exported in November of 2011 will show November 2011 under EXIF data, not 2007. Likewise, much else of metadata is lost on export. I'm sure, grannies and grandpas don't care - and will be quite pleased with Lightroom (although, I suspect, for them iPhoto will pose a sufficient challenge to use, let alone a so-called "Pro" RAW editor/database app).

Again, everything I noted in my earlier review is as relevant now as it were in the time of my original review. Lightroom hasn't moved a millimetre further - if anything, it has deteriorated even more.

it is great to see Lightroom is going to become better and better
compared to Aperture - Lightroom playes in another league:
- lens correction
- noise reduction
- graduated neutral density filter
- better user interface
…

It's too soon to give a real review, but I must say that the bugs that bothered me in Lightroom 3.4 have been fixed in this RC. In preliminary testing it seems solid and responsive. The installer will not replace your existing copy of Lightroom so you should feel free to try it out. And, if you are already using a version of Lightroom 3, this one will not affect your catalog, so that you can still use your older copy if you wish. This is on the Mac platform; I can't speak for the Windows version.

They've left some of the bugs they created unresolved, despite the twice repeated, exceedingly vague claim to have resolved just such problems. As one who has participated extensively on the Adobe forums discussing these bugs, I'm sorely disappointed. In my mind the Lightroom team's credibility is growing very thin indeed. They appear to be spending their time working on new features at the expense of solving existing problems. The evidence accumulated over the last few updates suggests their priorities need some serious readjustment.

Adobe Lightroom 1.4 pulled, users asked to downgrade

Adobe has pulled the recently released Lightroom 1.4 update from its Web site and is asking users to downgrade to version 1.3.1 of the photography workflow tool.

Company officials say the decision to pull the update was based on the following bugs:

EXIF Time Stamp Error There is an error in the EXIF time stamp update technology that causes Lightroom to believe that the files are out of sync with the correct time stamp as displayed in Lightroom. Any ensuing metadata update will attempt to incorrectly modify the EXIF time stamp in the original raw file itself. This is the only metadata field that Lightroom will write to an original proprietary raw file. This error will not impact the integrity of your image data. The Camera Raw plug-in also will incorrectly change the EXIF time stamp in files converted by the plug-in. The information written to the XMP sidecar files or XMP metadata in the converted files will remain correct.
Olympus Conversion Error There is an error in converting Olympus JPEG files to other formats in Lightroom 1.4 and the Camera Raw 4.4 plug-in.
In order to downgrade, delete the Lightroom application in the Application's folder and then delete the /Library/Receipts/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.pkg file. Reinstall Lightroom 1.3.1.

http://www.macfixit.com/