Aperture for those of us still shooting film ?

I'm interested to know if and how those of us still shooting film are using Aperture — I by no means want to start a Film vs. Digital debate, I just want to know without the benefits of the metatag and RAW file support, is Aperture really all that much of an improvement over previous methods? It seems from everything that I have read so far, it is much more oriented towards the digital folk. I myself have only recently started using iPhoto for headache relief in general photo organization and its integration with Apple's other iApplications — I still find the Photoshop Browser to be my primary tool for previewing my photos and deciding which ones merit more time for improvement, and edit them non-destructively in layer adustments.
Interested in some points of view. . .

I'm now digital but I did want to get a lot of previous family photos in. I scanned both the prints (usually at 800dpi), 35mm negs (at 4800dpi) and some 120 (at 3200dpi). Big file sizes and using Photoshop or iPhoto to figure out which to keep and which to process (was the print a better start point than the neg? question)was too convoluted ....I needed to pair up images from print and neg and group images from the same time. Aperture filled that function for me very nicely. Once I'd been into PS CS2 I had 2 versions of really big (>200mb) files. So then I did my selects and exported those. Moved my aperture db to an external drive and after starting up aperture as it created a new, empty library, I reimported my selects.
Although no EXIF data, you have munchos keyword and metadata to go at ... which I'm doing now.
Next task will be to select those I want to downrez, and then reexport these for batch process in CS2.
You need a decent scanner as cleaning up dust and blemishes on hundreds and thousands of photos is not for the faint of heart. I have a Canon 9950 with their FARE processing. I love the scanner and the scanner sw, but it doesn't sound close to the Digital ICE scanners in removing dust and scratches.
Bottom line. Yes, I've found it a useful tool for this.

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I have a few disputes thus far regarding Aperture from a professional point. One, a lot of professionals are shooting with Medium Format Digital Backs, typically either Leaf or Phase, and it doesn't show support for these cameras. Not only that, they don't even support the Canon EOS 1DS MKII which has almost become an industry standard professional DSLR. How do they expect to get into the professional market without supporting any of these camera's?
Second, why doesn't apple have a demo version available? I'm not going to spend $500.00 on a program that I'm not sure is going to work or not. Almost all major programs offer Demo versions to professionals.
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It's easy to be confused, you're not an idiot and someone at Apple simply didn't do the best job trying to point out that Aperture supports additional cameras beyond the "built in" support of high end digial SLRs.
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http://www.apple.com/aperture/raw/
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/cameras.html
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And you'll see the above list is basically the same as the list you found as their "updated" list.
http://www.apple.com/r/store/raw/
Unfortunately, it's not really an "updated list" but an "additional supported cameras list, since it's the list of cameras and RAW formats supported directly in the OS itself. I presume they "tossed" this up on the site to respond to complaints that they didn't support enough cameras and no non-SLR units. But they do, via the OS.
It's confusing and they should have simply pointed this out as directly supported and supported via the OS.
Oh well.
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I am bewildered that apple would release a product
that can not be used on so many of it's machines.
My guess is that Apple made the decision to look forward with Aperture, and designed the app from the ground up to optimize for the future states of the underlying OS and Apple hardware. A temporary inconvenience for those of us with legacy hardware - and a serious hit on initial sales - but IMO that approach will pay dividends when we are all on boxes with fast GPUs accessing substantial amounts of RAM.
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Computers used for pro graphics always have needed routine replacement, and recent improvements in DSLR capability (my Nikon D2x can create twenty large RAW + JPEG image files in 4 seconds, all of which must be managed) has exacerbated that issue. Aperture is just exemplary of the trend.
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rshammaa wrote:
If I am to switch, I would like to switch to a software that is elegantly thought out, that offers at least as much control as Aperture does, and that is widely supported and understood; and that has a forum like this one with competent people responding.
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- LR is the least elegant of the three.
- LR and C1Pro offer as much editing control as Aperture. Neither offers as much digital asset management options/utility.
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- This forum provided — not just my opinion, and something I'm proud of — a rare combination of quick response, high-quality content, and little chaff. There are (afaik) good forums for both LR and for C1Pro.
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