Anyone using RAW in iPhoto?

I am considering shooting more in RAW and wondered about iPhoto's RAW capabilities. I know iPhoto can handle RAW images, but with concessions (that I can't quite understand.) I do own Aperture, but have been slightly intimidated by it and wanted to hear from some other people before I dive in. Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hi Msedaka,
I use iPhoto with Nikon .NEF rawfiles, and I have been very happy with how it works.
Basically, your RAW file stays as the "original" in iPhoto, but a jpeg version is created when you import. (Importing is much slower for RAW than for JPG -- each shot can take several seconds on my core 2 duo iMac.) I find the performance (in terms of quality of outcome) much better in RAW when doing whitebalance, sharpness, and contrast adjustments. (This makes sense: these are all parameters in the RAW processing rather than physical adjustments to the photo-taking process. I am not positive that iPhoto really reprocesses with the new parameters, but my qualitative impression is that the performance is better!) Otherwise, there aren't too many practical differences.
On the downside of shooting RAWs, your iPhoto library can become quite large (and your camera memory quite "small") if you're shooting files that are 3+ times as large -- plus most cameras have slower burst rates when taking RAW than JPG shots due to the time needed to flush the memory buffer to SD or CF card. (Also, there's the slower import times as mentioned above.)
I believe Aperture has many more photo adjustments available, but I think these are equally available for RAW and JPG. It may have a "higher quality" algorithm for processing RAW files, but then again I thought these algorithms were part of OS X rather than iPhoto, and I'd be surprised if Apple maintains two sets of RAW processing algorithms (particularly given the number of different RAW formats supported). You can always download a free 30-day trial of Aperture from Apples website to see how you like it. (For my impressions, please see
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7891456#7891456
but note that this compares with the previous version of iPhoto -- before faces/places.)
Hope this helps!
-Mike

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