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The way in which Aperture is written, you will probably have to wait until 10.4.4 is released. I am not a programer, but what I have read leads me to believe that certain aspects of an upgrade are needed to change Aperture. An incremental upgrade was made just the other day to 1.0.1. Small changes, but no cameras added. Only time will tell. If Apple wants this program to succeed, they will have to work on this more readily and quickly if the want new users.
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They will probably release something fairly soon would be my guess. Apple doesn't step into things like this and then plan on failing. (I am not a Mac user either ...) This isn't a big change but you do need to ensure you get it right before handing it over to users since it is more damaging to do it wrong than do it immediately.

Look at their releases for the iPod, they make sure they have the hardware, software, product and distribution channel for content aligned for their releases almost perfectly.

Watch out for the Apple dudes they will run hard at this and make every attempt to win.

Jim
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I don't have Aperture yet. But - isn't it possible to import RAW files of any camera? What means "support" of a special type of camera?

(I visited a presentation-show and they imported files from a Nikon. Don't know what type this was. But they just load them from the SD-Card. And they were ready to work with them.)
 
julcaesar said:
I don't have Aperture yet. But - isn't it possible to import RAW
files of any camera? What means "support" of a special type of
camera?
(I visited a presentation-show and they imported files from a
Nikon. Don't know what type this was. But they just load them from
the SD-Card. And they were ready to work with them.)
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I have Aperture and yes you can import and begin working on images from the camera, a card reader or a folder, etc. "Support" means the program can read various RAW profiles from specific cameras. Many camera manufacturers have their own specific file format for their RAW files.

Since the D200 is new, Apeture and even CS2 at this time can not read these files. Give it a month.
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Each manufacturer has their own RAW format. There is a move to OpenRAW which would be a standard for all manufacturers to follow which would create a uniform file.

Now not only do they have independent RAW per manufacturer but they also have RAW file updates within a manufacturer. For instance with Nikon, the D70 (with firmware update), D70s, D50 all had a new white balance format. The D200 has one that is different than any other camera right now.

Nikon creates a developer kit that assists the software developers to interpret the new file format. Some, like Bibble, don't seem to need it but I question if the have all the right information to open the file. I did download the latest Bibble and it does work and seems pretty good.

What all of that means? Well, a company like Apple will not "just do it" without all the inforamation in hand. On the other hand, Bibble Labs will pursue the file updates much more aggressively.

Such is the digital world. A little patience and they will produce the update with the ability to handle the file format of the D200 NEF (RAW) file.
julcaesar said:
I don't have Aperture yet. But - isn't it possible to import RAW
files of any camera? What means "support" of a special type of
camera?
(I visited a presentation-show and they imported files from a
Nikon. Don't know what type this was. But they just load them from
the SD-Card. And they were ready to work with them.)
Click to expand...
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Hi,

Raw image conversion, in a Mac, is done at OSX (operating system) level, not within Aperture. Aperture merely uses operating system facilities to convert a given raw image. As such, support for new cameras will (in principle) be included with the next OSX update, not the next Aperture update.

I am sure that the D200 will be supported very soon.
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JimTech said:
Each manufacturer has their own RAW format. There is a move to
OpenRAW which would be a standard for all manufacturers to follow
which would create a uniform file.
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[snip

Being a bit pedantic, OpenRAW is primarily an initiative to persuade camera manufacturers to publish their raw formats. Although they are in favour of a universal raw format, they don't offer one of their own, and as far as I know don't intend to develop one.

The only current contender for such a universal raw format is DNG.
http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/dng/
 
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