Some of you remember my my strange hack for getting the LX1 working in Aperture.
A year later, and I still have to do that. This model has since been replaced with the Panasonic DMC-LX2 (a.k.a. Leica D-LUX 3) which on paper sounds like this same trick should work for the RAW files. I don’t know, so I haven’t tried but this Flickr thread made me think.
This is total B.S. Why do I have to resort to using an Adobe product to get this to work at all?
[Why Apple should support this after the jump]
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything. Continue reading
Canon enthusiast, Ben Long, posted a nice little article on how to customize Aperture’s book printing features.
That’s pretty cool because I haven’t really had a chance to mess with the book layout capabilities yet (except to note that it puts iPhoto to shame).
The article is a shorter version of Ben’s new book on Aperture.
I haven’t had a chance to look at it, but it is nice to know that there are books about this product coming out. There are many neat little things about Aperture that people need to know or might find useful.
I hope I can blog more about them in the future.
I found this article about Aperture’s future in ThinkSecret.
Because of all the misconceptions in the MacRumors discussion of it, I decided to post the link without any commentary in order to encourage people to actually read the article.
In any case, the rumor and its assorted fallout has generated a lot of discussion in the photographic world. I replied to two parts.
[my reply after the jump] Continue reading
In order to get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 (or Leica DIGILUX-2) to work in Aperture you first have to convert it to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter. Then you follow these directions which a commenter provides the trick.
Now you can import the DNGs into Aperture or iPhoto and the previews will now work. Continue reading
Here is a small Aperture tip I forgot to mention.
I work on Aperture on two machines, my Powerbook G4 and my girlfriend’s PowerMac G5 when I can sneak in some time. One problem I ran into was finding that the keywords (and also various export settings) I have set up in Aperture are not carried with the Aperture Library.
The trick is realizing that they are stored in your home directory in: “~/Library/Application Support/Aperture†Continue reading
(Thanks to the people of this Flickr thread for informing me of this.)
It looks like Apple caved into all hearsay by photographers and is releasing a new version of Aperture catered to them.
The major thing to note, IMO, is that Aperture 1.1 will be a universal binary and available as a free update, paving my purchase of a 17″ MacBook Pro in August.
But let’s look at the features in this update:
Drew mentioned that Apple released an update to Aperture. This is probably the first of many though don’t expect anything major:
Aperture depends on the ImageIO Framework to do the file handling and Core Image to do the majority of the heavy lifting in the UI. So the largest changes should be expected when Apple updates the operating system, not Aperture.