“Photography pros have been waiting for a new version of Apple’s Aperture for way too long,” Steven Sande writes for TUAW. “The existing version, Aperture 2, was released on February 12, 2008.”
“According to a post on Dutch website One More Thing, the wait might be over soon. Several Dutch photography sites are listing a book about Aperture 3 with mid-February availability dates,” Sande reports. “Aperture 3, by author Johan Elzenga, is a Dutch-language book and is listed for availability on February 15th.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “davecc” for the heads up.]
I don’t like Adobe. I won’t pay their absurd price for Photoshop upgrades.
I love Apple… love Final Cut Pro… Would rather use all Apple software.
But… Lightroom has always had it all over Aperture.
LR makes Aperture feel like a Microsoft product
Unless Aperture 3 is A LOT more like LR, then I’ll have to say pass.
Comment from: The Other Steve
I have a bad feeling that my G5 tower is going to be left out in the cold with Aperture 3.
I hope I’m wrong.
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Sorry to have to tell you this but Aperture 3 will be intel only!!!!!
Probably Snow leopard only taking advantage of Grand central and openCL
The whole G4, G5 PPC range will be going vintage (Obsolete) in about 7 months so no more parts from Apple.
The Other Steve;
“Unfortunately the raw color never looks as good as Nikon’s raw program because Nikon won’t release their raw color info to other developers like Apple”
No, it is not a case of format, when you pull raw you are getting ALL the data captured off the sensor, that is the point of raw.
What you are not getting (and the reasons for differences in the “raw” image displayed is because a raw image has far more information than can be displayed on the 8 bit display of your computer. Therefor raw images must be bracketed or clipped, reducing contrast (quantizing, ie crushing, grey levels) and or crushing (clipping) blacks & whites.
While this affects the display it does not affect the actual image which is always stored in pristine “raw” format including all the information.
This also happens in the motion picture industry where we scan 35mm MP film negatives in extended depth file formats so that we have “room” to adjust levels in post or extract lighting information (for CG re lighting) You simply can’t “see” all the information at once (you can slide exposure up and down and get a “feel” for what is there but it simply can’t be displayed in 8 bits)
There are very specialized “extended depth” display systems (and software) however in practice, because they have similar ultimate white and black levels to high quality 8-bit systems, they are of limited values as they just tend to reduce visible quantization (banding) and not actually extend ultimate brightness and contrast levels.
While Cannon, nikon, ect may not give their “standard” bracketing information (that they use to quantize to a 8 bit formats), that is not the same as not divulging the full extents of the RAW formats that they use. (nor does it affect the quality of the images)
rdbvideo is spot on when he states that Lightroom makes Aperture look like a Microsoft product. No serious photographer uses Aperture. Not after the way Apple hosed users with their raw compatibility issues in 2008. No way.
Aperture is crashing all over the place for me on Snow Leopard. I’ve all but given up on it. Hope they do a (big) discount for Aperture 2 users to pay for our suffering!!
Most people who use Aperture and Snow Leopard suffer horrible, massive crashes.
Every pro I know uses Light Room. As a company, I prefer Apple, but the better tool has been LR, and getting entrenched users to switch will require something amazing.
@Uncle Fester’s cousin
Yes I know all the information is their. The fact is Nikon (and Canon) put a great deal of work fixing the shortcomings of the raw sensor when shooting directly to jpeg so your photo looks better. They do this for a reason. (flat does not always mean better)
You don’t get that fix when acquiring your raw photos in another program. This is why your jpegs often look better that your raw photos when you shoot both.
The Other Steve:
Uuuh… I call bulls__t.
Anyone serious about photography (or image processing in general) had better understand how to correctly bracket an extended depth photograph to obtain what they want from it. (it is not tat difficult to understand nor is the data “hidden” in any way)
Also the problem with the default bracketing is that is is a general case, ok for snapshots but almost always less than optimal for serious photography.
Also I asked a group of photographers (professionals) we had on set about all this “No serious photographer uses Aperture” stuff you guys are laying down (I am not a photographer nor do I own aperture) And, almost to a fault, they laughed (so I guess I am going to have to call bull on that one too) The consensus among those professionals seemed to be that apple and adobe keep leapfrogging one an another with each version (competition is good) and while the latest version of light-room has better processing (editing) tools (aperture still has the edge in workflow, ease of use and UI), almost all expected that the next (3.0) version of aperture would eclipse light-room on editing tools as well. (and then the cycle starts again;-)
Aperture is well over due and it needs to be one hell of a release if it is to stay in the game.
I prefer it to LR but I dont see the developer feedback with customers, the length of time for camera support is also not up to standard.
For those who say no professionals use Aperture your lying and dont know what your talking about though.
Apertures workflow is better for sure, and thats pretty darned important to a photographer. I honestly find it faster on a good machine as well.
No crashes for me in snow leopard.
Aperture needs adjustment brushes and more speed increases for next release amongst other things.
Nothing yet?
What really bugs me is the silence. Why on God’s earth can’t Apple just say, “There will be an Aperture 3.”? That’s just so poor especially for this type of software.
I just find it hard to believe that it’s January 27th, 2010 and I’m still completely in the dark.