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Apple Update Adds Camera Compatibility to Aperture, iPhoto

Apple Update Adds Camera Compatibility to Aperture, iPhoto

Apple’s Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.2, releaed today, provides support for a number of cameras and addresses RAW processing for a small number of other camers.From the release notes: This update extends RAW image format compatibility to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’09 for the following cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T2i / 550D / Kiss ... read more

April 22, 2010 in News by David Schloss 1 comment

View (and Hide) Camera Info in Aperture 3’s Metadata Inspector

View (and Hide) Camera Info in Aperture 3’s Metadata Inspector

The Metadata Inspector has a new little bonus in the form of a camera-LCD simulating EXIF data display called Camera Info. If you’re wondering what I mean, it’s camera geek speak for a simulated LCD that shows the camera settings for every image clicked on.I think it’s the bee’s knees. I’ve always set up ... read more

March 2, 2010 in Adjust, Organize by David Schloss 0 comments

What Adjustment Presets Do You Want? Take Our Survey

What Adjustment Presets Do You Want? Take Our Survey

We’re rapidly working on developing specialized custom presets for specific camera models in Aperture 3. We’ve developed a method of making cool presets like Neutral Density, Tilt/Shift, specialized blurs and more. So far we’ve made sets for the Nikon D3X, D3S and D3. We’ve got more coming, including our first set of Canon adjustment ... read more

February 23, 2010 in News by David Schloss 10 comments

Display Focal Points in Aperture 3

Display Focal Points in Aperture 3

Aperture 3 has the ability to display the focal points that were used when capturing the images in-camera. From the Metadata panel, place your mouse over the focal point icon to display the points temporarily or click on the focal point icon to leave it on.The Focal Points ButtonAperture will now display the ... read more

February 17, 2010 in Workflow by David Schloss 2 comments

Only Import Flagged/Locked Files in Aperture 3 to Speed Workflow

Only Import Flagged/Locked Files in Aperture 3 to Speed Workflow

One of the great features tucked inside the Import dialog box has some pretty nifty ramifications for workflow. Under the File Types section of the Import screen is the checkbox that says Only include files flagged/locked in camera.Here’s how to use this to maximize your on-location shooting power. Let’s say you’re a photographer and you’re ... read more

February 9, 2010 in Import, Workflow by David Schloss 0 comments

Hands on with the Canon 7D

Hands on with the Canon 7D

In an extended meeting with Canon in New York City, we were able to spend hours with the new Canon EOS 7D and walked away from the experience with some great impressions and great images like these from our Flickr pool of images. The 7D is a APS-C sized camera with an 18 megapixel sensor and ... read more

September 1, 2009 in News by David Schloss 5 comments

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.7, Supports 14 Additional Cameras

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.7, Supports 14 Additional Cameras

Apple released Mac OS 10.5.7 today, which in addition to several bug fixes and security patches also offers RAW file support for 14 additional cameras and camera backs. Included in this list are the popular Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 50D, Nikon D3X and Sony Alpha 900. Apple provides raw file support on the OS level ... read more

August 12, 2009 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Hands on with onOne Digital Camera remote for iPhone

Hands on with onOne Digital Camera remote for iPhone

Last week onOne software released their newest iPhone application, a remote-control tool for Canon digital cameras that enables camera setting and triggering over a wireless network via an iPhone or iPod touch. We’ve spent the weekend playing with the tool and are in love with it, it’s a fantastic solution and we’re frankly surprised that ... read more

June 22, 2009 in Share by David Schloss 0 comments

Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Updated to 2.5

Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Updated to 2.5

Apple on Monday released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update version 2.5. The update is available for download from the Apple Web site or using the Software Update system preference. New to the 2.5 update is support for the Nikon D3X and Epson R-D1x cameras. Issues related to specific cameras and overall stability have also been improved. Digital ... read more

March 2, 2009 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Tethered shooting in Aperture 2

Tethered shooting in Aperture 2

Luckily one of Aperture’s big new features is the ability to work in tethered shooting mode, which works with a variety of digital cameras (and even the iPhone). It also happens to be easier to shoot in tethered mode than to import images, so in many situations Tethered shooting mode happens to be the best ... read more

February 14, 2008 in Import by David Schloss 0 comments