Aperture and Nikon D200

I've bought"Aperture" 2 days ago but i can't open the .NEF files taken with my Nikon D200
What can i do?

Hi Stephen,
You missed the (see camera model listing) which lists the specific models.
Of course, I went to the Aperture page, and I missed it too. It would be nice if there's a link.
The D200 is not supported with Aperture 1.0 or 1.0.1. It will be supported with 1.1, which Apple has noted will be available in March. So, at worst, it should be 23 days or less.
Here's a document which specifically lists the supported camera models:
http://images.apple.com/aperture/pdf/20051207ApertureProductOverview.pdf
If you read through the forum a bit, you'll see 5-10 other threads on this topic.
Cheers.

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hi
here's a quick photo for comparing (hosted on my site since it's huge):
http://www.raffaz.net/stuff/nx_aperture.png (4.4mb uncompressed PNG file)
I'm quite disappointed by some aspects of Aperture's RAW handling... or at least, by comparing it to Capture NX.
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the screenshots are 100% crops from the latest versions of the applications, using flat settings as you can see (just import, deselect everything the app will do), the camera is a Nikon D70, the lens is a 18-70 f3.5 and the file is a .NEF (nikon raw). settings for the photo are ISO200, f8, 1/15, 50mm on tripod.
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if needed, I can provide more screenshots with other photos

hi
here's a quick photo for comparing (hosted on my site
since it's huge):
http://www.raffaz.net/stuff/nx_aperture.png (4.4mb
uncompressed PNG file)
I'm quite disappointed by some aspects of Aperture's
RAW handling... or at least, by comparing it to
Capture NX.
by looking at the picture, you can instantly see that
NX raw photo is much sharper, and it is nearly
perfect (apart from the not-perfect photo itself).
by looking at Aperture's shot, you can see that it's
blurry, with moirè and noise-like problems..
the screenshots are 100% crops from the latest
versions of the applications, using flat settings as
you can see (just import, deselect everything the app
will do), the camera is a Nikon D70, the lens is a
18-70 f3.5 and the file is a .NEF (nikon raw).
settings for the photo are ISO200, f8, 1/15, 50mm on
tripod.
I admit I'm very surprised by this difference. I'm
using the trial of NX (just wanted to test it since
it's brand new) and when I noticed all these
differences I was shocked. I'm not saying that NX is
better than Aperture, I think that Aperture is still
unbeaten in a lot of fields, but could someone please
explain me this huge difference in quality?
if needed, I can provide more screenshots with other
photos
I dont like Capture NX one bit, its just as slow and sluggish as the previous version. The reason why pics often look better in Capture is becuase Nikon wrote it, after all the NEF format is theres.
To be honest Capture NX cannot be compared to Aperure there not in the same league, and you can pick up Aperture for the Same price as Capture NX on ebay brand new i would alwasy go for aperture far better value for money IMHO.

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Could the NEF files be different on the D200. Will I need to wait for a iPhoto update to cure this or is there something wrong?

Hi folks,
I too just got a D200. iPhoto does recognize the camera when I plug it in but it only imports the jpg's
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Why do files from my Nikon D200 camera which are shot at 28MB come into Aperture at only 7MB?
I had these images in Large Fine JPG format at 28MB but when imorted and started working with them they are only & MB files in Aperture?

Léonie,
honestly speaking, I have done most of my image adjustments since 2006 (when I bought the D200) in various image processing applications (e.g. Capture One, Bibble 5 - now turned to AfterShot Pro by Corel, Lightroom at a friend's PC). I also tried Nikon's Capture NX but never liked it. Speaking of images that have been worth while keeping and working with as a RAW file I never saw any difference. As far as I can say with respect to Aperture 3 I come to the the same result as I did with the other software.
People may say that with the disk space being so cheap now it is not worth while thinking about that. But there is one other aspect that can be of advantage in certain situations: The compressed RAWs are transferred faster to and from the the card than the uncompressed files. Also, the time for decompression in applications seems to be shorter than that saved while reading the smaller files.
Before I started to use the compression feature (which in fact should be not lossless in the case of D200) I studied some reviews on that, of course.
Citing one of them one could say
"I tried to make duplicate shots to compare. I gave up. The mechanical exposure repeatability of my camera and nature itself aren't stable enough to let me make two captures close enough to see any possible difference between compressed and uncompressed raw.
People do see differences. They are seeing fluctuations in their technique shot-to-shot, not any differences due to the compression."
by Ken Rockwell
If you are interested, here is the original article by Ken Rockwell.
Another very elaborate investigation can be found here.
Again, a quote from the controversal discussion on that comparison:
"The ‘lossy’ NEF compression is really a clever use of information theory to save space by eliminating redundant raw levels. The noise which is unavoidably present in light effectively dithers tonal transitions so that the compression is *perceptually lossless*."
by a poster named emil
As far as I have read elsewhere, newer cameras as the D300 even have really "lossless" compression algorithms.
Cheers,
Michael

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