Aperture 3.0.2 still no Sigma X3F

Well, not much more to say. Still disappointing. No support for Sigma RAW files .x3f
And, yes I had reported this request to apple more than one time. Now updated to 10.6.3.
cheers
f

This is not an answer.
I think Sigma can help apple to support that sensor.
For me the DP series from SIGMA are so good camera. in fact they are slow. But you get a real camera without too much gadget on it. Just a camera "back to the roots"
An other option should be that Aperture could load the file and edditing will be done in sigma pro photo. But for that we need to have some automation made from apple

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that Apple revised the price on it but I still have
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Hello,
yes, you are right. I agree, 1.1 is a modest update. There is lot too improve, I think. But I want to offer some thoughts.
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5. Please see my reply at 1.
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and up-close, with extreme contrast:
http://www.panopeeper.com/Demo/MaskedPixels_PentaxK10_ISO100_b.GIF ; ..."
The same was confirmed for example for Pentax K20D and some Nikon cameras too...
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"...they aren't completely useless as one can do several different things with them, as follows:
1) Use them to measure and back out Wide Band Vertical Patterns in the K10D and K20D.
2) Use them to tweak out the magenta to green tingeing from left to right that the K10D has at high ISO's or for highly boosted as to exposure and contrast images.
3) Use them to eliminate the border tingeing of the K20D that occurs in the same cases as the tingeing of the K10D above as is done using my Raw Border Correction (RBC) utility for the K20D.
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Regards, GordonBGood..."
but Big Brother (that 'd be mr Knoll no less) thinks on your behalf what is useful and what is not...
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