Unsupported RAW workflow in Apple Aperture revisited

Posted on 10 February 2010 by Terry Chay

Now that Aperture 3 is out, I need to update one area of my previous article.

No, Aperture 3 doesn’t support the Olympus E-P1/E-P2/E-PL1 or Panasonic GF-1 RAWs (yet).

There is a workaround, however, for doing sorting, selecting, and metadata in Aperture 3.

Select un-viewable RAWs in Apple Aperture 3’s thumbnail view
Cmd-click to get a contextual menu and choose “Set JPEG as Master.”
Mouse over the image to see what happens after “Set JPEG as Master.”
Do work to create a select, rate images, and the like.
Catapult workflow with some adjustments. You’ll now need to be in 32-bit mode on Apple Aperture 3 to use it.
How to open Aperture 3 in 32-bit mode (always).
Trying to return to “Set RAW as Master’ and then Catapulting yields and “Editing Error” as the backdoor used by Catapult is now closed.
Therefore, you must export masters manually to the drop folder, generate RAWs, and then Catapult. If you do so, you can’t reimport the sidecar xmps, currently.

Here is some proof:

The House North Beach, San Francisco, California Olympus E-P2, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 50mm f1.1 1/8sec5, ISO200, 50mm (100mm) Image processed from ACR in Aperture. Try as you might, you can’t recover clipped highlights.

(BTW, the images were uploaded with the new built in Flickr support, so we’ll see how good sync is—it appears to be uni-directional. For instance, I just found out movies aren’t supported in Flickr sync, so videos are synced back as stills.)

Mushroom rice with grilled prawns looks like it’s alive The House, North Beach, San Francisco, California Olympus E-P1, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical 00:15, 1280×1070, 30fps

Bear Cans

Posted on 27 July 2009 by Terry Chay

I was amused to read about the bear Yellow Yellow’s ability to break into the BearVault 500.

When doing outdoor photography it is very important to know the bear-proof rules for your area. For instance, when I last hiked Tahoe, it was okay to use a bear-bag—a canvas bag that you throw up into the trees and anchor by tying to a tree. But in Yosemite and Mount Whitney, this is a big no-no as bears long ago figured out how to pull down a bear bag, you have to use a bear proof canister.

Upper Yosemite and Half Dome Yosemite Falls Trail, Yosemite National Park, California Nikon D70, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G, UV filter f/11 at 1/20 second, 18mm (27mm), iso 200 Luckily, all campsites at Yosemite have food lockers to protect your stuff.

Bear vs Car after the jump

A fish(y) story

Posted on 10 July 2007 by Terry Chay

It is because of random flukes like this:

I make C|Net’s News.Com frontpage (sort of)

Baseball cap? Check? New York Giants? Check. Geek convention? Check. This reminds me, C|Net really needs to host a Lunch 2.0… Check?

that Blake and Meagan have started calling me “rockstar.” What is ironic is that I’m not a rockstar, but I am related to one: my Uncle Francis, whom you’ve read about before.

Uncle Francis Gunbei! Yoshi’s Jazz House and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland, California Nikon D70, 50mm f/1.8D 1/20sec @ f/1.8, iso200, 50mm (75mm)

Here is the photographic proof my brother found that my Uncle Francis has a secret night job as Shin Joong-hyun, the Korean Godfather of Rock ’n Roll:

Korea’s Godfather of Rock Makes a Comeback

As my cousin, Chris, says, now we figured out what her father has been up to since “retiring.” We just got to get him to shave his head, wear and earpiece, and look pensive. (Knowing Uncle Francis, he’d do that too, if it meant a free lunch…Hmm, maybe the idea for Lunch 2.0 was genetic.)

Speaking of another Chris (and another lunch), Chris Jones mentioned that I need to include more essays from my Uncle. So, the same week last November my brother found Uncle’s hidden secret double life as the Godfather of Korean Rock, this essay was making the rounds in our family…

(Trust me, you’re going to love it.)

[“One day in life of a retiree: a fish(y) story” after the jump.] Continue reading →