I know that in the past Aperture was slow to update RAW compatibility. In fact, there were times when you were forced to wait for the OS update in order to get them. It looks like that's in the past, however, since I regularly get updates for RAW compability. In fact, there was one just this morning. As far as support goes, I've never had issues serious enough with Aperture that couldn't be answered in the Apple forums and I wonder if the PowerPC chipset was part of the problem (I've always run Aperture on an Intel based Mac Pro).
-Brendan ----- Original Message ---- > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 11:04:54 AM > Subject: Re: Aperture 3 now available > > As I wrote on Photo.net: > > "Personally, I've never liked Aperture's UI very much, but that's not > what's stopped me from relying upon it. The lack of support for many > raw file formats, the slow development and unresponsive nature of > communicating with the Aperture development team are the big turn-offs > for me. > > I also have used Lightroom, and Photoshop with Camera Raw before that, > since they came on the market. Adobe has always been responsive to my > queries, they've issued updates on a regular basis, and they support > every single camera of note in the marketplace on a timely basis. > > No matter how wonderful the latest features Aperture supports might > be, for my work it is a far away lower priority over timely support > and support team responsiveness. I do use Aperture ... I use its > book-making facilities ... but I only import TIFF files that I finish > in Lightroom and Photoshop into it. It's just not worth the hassle > otherwise. And if Lightroom 3 includes the publish and bookmaking > features that I need, well, I can always use a little more disk space > from removing software I no longer need." > > I keep an open mind about it, I try every new version. This one will > have to wait until I buy new hardware as it doesn't run on PowerPC > systems (yeah, I work with ancient hardware) or I'll add it to my Snow > Leopard test drive that I boot a borrowed MacBook with at present. But > the issue of Aperture's poor support scenario remains irksome and less > than delightful for being productive, IMO. > > I'm downloading it onto my Snow Leopard test system as we speak. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Brendan MacRae > wrote: > > FYI ... > > > > Got an email from Apple this morning. Aperture 3 is now out. Looks like > > there > are new view options, brushes tools, face detection and GPS thingamabobs. > Here's > the link in case you care: > > > > http://www.apple.com/aperture/ > > > > -Brendan > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow > the directions. > > > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
