I've tried DNG with Aperture, and then looked it up in the Apple
Knowledge Base. which confirmed my findings. Aperture only supports
DNG's created from RAW's from supported Cameras. Which defeats much of
the purpose of DNG.
-Adam
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:59 AM, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
We'll have to wait and see how fast and good emulation of Power PC
code is?
I went to Macworld Expo today and brought along a couple of my own
PEF and DNG files. I tested RAW conversion with ACR and Photoshop CS2
editing on the new iMac 20" system, 2Ghz and 2G RAM configuration.
Overall, performance was about equivalent to my iMac G4 20" (1.25Ghz
cpu, 1G RAM). Similar performance on the MacBook Pro (higher spec
model).
A short while later I ran into an old friend from Apple. He's one of
the engineers who worked on Rosetta. I asked him what the Rosetta
target benchmark was, without telling him that I'd already done some
testing. He said their goal was to make it perform equivalently to an
867Mhz-1Ghz G4 system. I'd say they achieved their goal nicely. The
native applications are very responsive, and Photoshop CS2 is as
usable as it is on my current desktop system.
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Other stuff:
- CoreImage does not have any support for Pentax PEFs in 10.4.4. This
means no PEFs in iPhoto or Aperture as yet.
- The Aperture folks would not let me test a DNG file on their demo
system, but I'm going to check that out at the local Apple Retail Store.
- The Nikon folks where there in force. I got to play with a D200 for
a bit. It's very nice ... size and weight feel very similar to my
Canon 10D, the viewfinder is on par with the Pentax *ist DS for
brightness and magnification. Controls were all accessible and
moderately easy to figure out. Looks and feels like a fine piece. I
noticed that the Menu included the ability to save RAW either
compressed or uncompressed. The guy in the booth swore up and down
that this was because "... there's no such thing as lossless
compression!" BS meter pegged, but he was just a booth 'droid.
Nice camera. I prefer the overall size and weight of the DS.
- David Pogue from The New York Times did a presentation on "Cameras
of 2015", hosted by the SFDIG organization. A bit too glib, a bit too
much consumer cutesy for my taste.
Godfrey
