On 16.07.06, at 18:36 , Doug Brewer wrote: > I've been sorely tempted to try out Aperture for my Mac at home, as > it looks to be a pretty good program. Have any of you run it through > any sort of testing? I have been testing it along with beta version of Adobe's Lightroom. Finally I choose Aperture for several reasons. - it was much faster in thumbnail building (it takes forever in LR) and actual image editing (probably due to use of core imge, where graphics card processor makes some calculations) - all this on iMac G5/1.8 GHZ, 1,5 GB RAM, Radeon 9600/128 MB VRAM - it has far more sophisticated and easier to use comparison, search and organisation tools - RAW conversion quality in 1.1 is very good - perhaps slightly lesser than the one in LR, but honestly it is one of the very few RAW converters which can properly handle red hues in RAW files from Pentax cameras - LR actually made these colours "washed out", far from reality - built in pictures database backup (still not implemented in LR) - it is available now - it is more intuitive to use On the other side it is based on in-system RAW processing, so it's support for various cameras depends on system updates. With the latest update to 10.4.7 Apple is supporting only *istD and *istDl. Perhaps we should try to encourage Apple to support other *ist series DSLRs as basically they use the same RAW format, just with another camera name in .PEF files? I wrote a few times to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html And they finally included support for *istDl, that I asked them for :-) And one more thing - despite some critical opinions about using unitary pictures database, it is easily possible to open that under OS Finder and move projects from one computer system to another using "Import projects" option in Aperture. If you have more detailed questions, don't hesitate to contact me directly ;-)
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