Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

[Ian]

You may be aware that Apple Aperture 3 has been announced. DPNow has been invited to a press briefing with Apple, with some of their Aperture experts, focusing on Aperture 3 next week, in London (Monday or Tuesday). I will be away on both days and I'd like to offer the opportunity of a DPNow visitor who is a seasoned Aperture user to represent DPNow at one of these briefings.

In return, I'd like to receive a short account of your thoughts on Aperture 3 that would be used in a DPNow article. If you are interested, please get in touch asap - email [email protected].

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

Looks like we have the place filled now

Ian

[Stephen]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

Looks like we have the place filled now

Ian

Thats good, I'll be very interested to read more about it. On the face of it, it seems to have a lot of new whistles and bells, and I don't see these happening in Lightroom 3. Perhaps this will also spur Adobe on to release LR3 at the earliest opportunity, though of course Mac sales of LR3 will be a fraction of the total, so perhaps Adobe don't see Apple as major competition

[Ian]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

Thats good, I'll be very interested to read more about it. On the face of it, it seems to have a lot of new whistles and bells, and I don't see these happening in Lightroom 3. Perhaps this will also spur Adobe on to release LR3 at the earliest opportunity, though of course Mac sales of LR3 will be a fraction of the total, so perhaps Adobe don't see Apple as major competition

It's a shame I won't be able to go to the briefing myself as I'd be interested to see how Aperture compares with Lightroom.

I see the biggest weakness of Aperture being in the speed in which it releases support for new cameras. There are some cameras that have been around for nearly a year that are still un-supported even in Aperture 3.

Ian

[Stephen]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

It's a shame I won't be able to go to the briefing myself as I'd be interested to see how Aperture compares with Lightroom.

I see the biggest weakness of Aperture being in the speed in which it releases support for new cameras. There are some cameras that have been around for nearly a year that are still un-supported even in Aperture 3.

Ian

As I understand things its not so much individual progs that offer support on Macs, but rather the actual OS. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3825 Having said this Adobe seem to work independently of MacOs X

[Ian]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

As I understand things its not so much individual progs that offer support on Macs, but rather the actual OS. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3825 Having said this Adobe seem to work independently of MacOs X

Yes, Adobe's RAW support is completely independent of the RAW support built in to Mac OS, and on which Aperture is dependent. This is not a complete list, but it shows just how many cameras are unsupported by Aperture compared to Lightroom; the following are only not supprted in Aperture but are in Lightroom:

Canon EOS-1000D
No Fujifilm bridge or compact cameras
No Mamiyas
Olympus E-620
Olympus E-P1
Olympus E-P2
Olympus E-450
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10
Pentax K-7
Pentax K-x
No Phase One backs
All Sigma DSLRs or DPx compacts
Sony Alpha A330
Sony Alpha A230
Sony Alpha A380
Sony Alpha A500
Sony Alpha A550
Sony Alpha A850

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

I think a lot of people were hoping that Aperture 3 would have heralded an overdue filling in of the gaps in Mac OS RAW support.

Ian

[DerekW]

Re: Attention Apple Aperture fans in London

To bring the information re the list of cameras supported by Aperture, iPhoto, Preview and Finder on the Mac up to date.

The Digital Camera Raw program which converts the Raw files is supplied independently or together with updates of OSX or Aperture, and can be separately downloaded from the Apple Support web site

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1007

Once you have installed one version of the program new versions will be installed via the Software Update program.

As for the latest list of cameras supported check out
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3825

where you will see that at the time of writing
the following cameras have been added to the list since Aperture 3 was released

Hasselblad H3DII-50
Leica M9
Leica X1
Olympus E-P1
Olympus E-P2
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
Pentax K-7
Pentax K-x
Sony Alpha DSLR-A500
Sony Alpha DSLR-A550
Sony Alpha DSLR-A850
Canon PowerShot S90
Canon sRAW
Canon mRAW
Leica D-LUX 4
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

A new version of the Digital Camera Raw program that can handle lens geometry issues was released with Aperture 3 and this should enable Appple to more aggressively supoprt new cameras.