Camera Aperture

The new iPhone 4S is touted as having an improved aperture of f2.4
That made me wonder what is the aperture on the current iPhone 4? Can't find the info elsewhere

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Leica M9 and Aperture3 not showing camera aperture setting when import DNG files. Shutter speed and ISO are indicated, but not aperture. When I export and open in Adobe Camera Raw aperture setting is displayed.

Does any one have a suggestion as to how to get A3 to show the camera aperture setting on Leica M9 DNG files?

You will want to read this thread in its entirety.
The short story (as I understand it) is that the M9 body receives no information about aperture from attached lenses. It is able to derive an estimate of the aperture, though, and it lists this derived number in the metadata field "Approximate F-stop" (not the exact field name). Aperture (the program) does not report the contents of this proprietary field.

Workflow: Camera - Aperture - iPhoto

Hi there, some questions regarding the workflow that I use. Like everything, it has its ups and its downs. What I´m trying to do - of course - is to eliminate the downs. Please feel free to comment.
1 - Shooting in RAW
I use a Nikon D200 for photography. I have this set to shoot in RAW. This gives me maximum quality and flexibility afterwards. Yes, the files are large, but with the prices of memory cards, this is no problem (for me). I have my camera set up in the AdobeRGB (1998) color space, although shooting in RAW does not assign a color profile to the files, as far as I know.
2 - Processing in Aperture
I import the files in Aperture. This Apple program gives me the possibility to totally work in RAW (I ahrdly ever use Photoshop any more). In the import step, an AdobeRGB (1998) color profile is assigned to the pictures. I have my monitor calibrated (Colorvision), so the camera and monitor profile work together to show me the exact image.
3 - Export from Aperture to network disk cabinet (NAS)
When I´m finished adjusting the pictures in Aperture, I use the export function to make JPG copies and store the JPG´s on a network attached storage (disk cabinet). I later use to JPG´s in iPhoto.
Question - What image resolution should I use to create the JPG´s. I have read all sorts of confusing stuff about pixels and DPI and how these things are not the same. What I want, is to have iPhoto display the pictures in a good quality, without taking too long to load them. Which resolution do you guys think I should use?
The original photo´s - still in RAW - are kept in Aperture. When I want to make prints, I do this from Aperture, using the RAW pictures. I later save the Aperture projects as containers to my NAS.
4 - Showing off in iPhoto
I import the JPG´s from my NAS. I do not copy the files to the library, but have iPhoto point to the NAS-based files.
Question - Do you people have all your pictures stored in the library? The library seems to get really really big...... but maybe there are some advantages that I do not see right now. A possible advantage would be, that by copying the picturews in the library, there is a possibility to link a color profile to them. Does anyone have a nice comparison of pro´s and cons of both possibilities?
I use iPhoto to show my stuff through Front Row. Of course, my NAS has to be running... Hmmmm maybe that would be another advantage of storing the pictures directly in the library...
I bought iLife 08 a few days ago and als got a .MAc account, so now I also have the possibility to create web galleries. Great stuff !!
Question - Am I correct that there is no possibility to decide on the resolution of the pictures on the gallery? So, which resolution are they?
Question - I assume that, when I create a gallery, the pictures are copied from my computer (iPhoto library) to a .Mac server so that everyone can see them without my computer having to be running?
These are my questions. So, what do you guys think? Again, please feel free to comment on anything I have written here. Thanks.
Kind regards,
Willem
(Netherlands)

Terence, thanks for your quick reaction. Let me try to clarify the situation.
In my workflow, I try to separate between processing and digital publishing.
*For processing*, I use Aperture. For this, I import pictures into a project in Aperture, and I do all sorts of actions on them until I'm satisfied with the results. In this proces, I work in RAW. I also show the pictures that I'm working on to the relevant people (clients, friends) in Aperture slideshows. While I work in Aperture, the pictures are stored inside the Aperture library which is on my local harddrive. I use a vault to make backups while I'm in the processing stage.
When I'm thru with processing. what I want to do is get (selected) pictures into iPhoto. I want these to be in a good quality, taking into account that most of the time, I will be showing them digitally thru Front Row, a iPhoto slideshow or in a web gallery. Of course, these pictures need not be in RAW quality. I think, a decent JPG quality will do just fine. Remember, if I want to make prints, I use Aperture since this has far better controls.
I use a NAS to store all my relevant stuff. I have several shares set up on the NAS, like "media", "backup" and home shares for different users (mostly private users but also my business user, I'm self-employed).
So, for example, when I listen to music thru iTunes, it actually points to music on the NAS. Therefor, my NAS has to be running. This is a downside of the NAS solution. Pro's of using a NAS are, for me:
- it is a RAID disk cabinet, so with extra security built-in;
- the local harddrive in my iMac would be too little to hold all my stuff (since I'm a music purist, I do not compress my music so the files are rather large....)
So, for *digital publishing* the pictures, I thought it would be wise to have the pictures on my NAS. In this way, they are on a safe RAID cabinet and also, it keeps the iPhoto library from getting too large.
When I have exported the JPG's out of Aperture and maybe have made prints, I save the Aperture project as a container on my NAS and then I delete the Apeerture project. After that, I use iPhoto to show the stuff.
So, I cannot point iPhoto to the Aperture, because that would mean that I would have to keep all pictures inside the Aperture.
Am I doing something stupid here?
Willem
Netherlands

Aperture hangs on import from iPhone or camera

Since a few weeks I can't import from my iPhone or digital camera anymore.
If I try to import Photos from my iPhone or camera Aperture hangs forever. The Photos should be imported as referenced ones to a folder on a network share on a Mac OS X Server. This works fine, if the Picture source is i.e. a memory card or a HDD. And it has been working with the iPohne and camera before.
What happens is, that Aperture creates a file like "..importing.IMG0815.JPG" with 0 Bytes in the target folder. And than it hangs.
From this point on there is a permanent network traffic, and reasonable CPU load on both Macs (the kernel_task on the client and the AppleFileServer task on the Server). If I delete the "..importing.IMG0815.JPG" file it is instantly recreated. This continues even if I kill the Aperture application. The only way to stop this is to unmount the Network Volume.
Does anyone has an idea what this may cause?

sizzling badger wrote:
Aperture, Lightroom etc. are all designed to make use of direct import. They are safer than copying your files via the OS tools for the simple reason they access the cards read-only. If you use OS tools to copy then you are accessing the cards read-write which is far more dangerous if something goes wrong.
Culling your images during import saves time and disk space also. Copying your images directly and then importing is a WASTE OF YOUR TIME.
We disagree. Although such apps are indeed "designed" for direct import, my empirical observations since the earliest days of digital imagery have been that interacting indirectly using an app like Aperture is much, much less stable than directly interacting via Finder when properly done. One can peruse literally hundreds of digital image threads including this one to see overwhelming real-world evidence of what I am talking about.

Importing video clips in AVCHD (Lite) into Aperture vs iMovie

I'm trying to figure out which application I should use for importing and storing video clips shot on my Panasonic DMC-ZS7 camera. This camera can shoot in AVCHD (Lite) or in Motion JPEG. I use the AVCHD (Lite) format to shoot the videos with this camera.
The two application options I currently have for importing video clips from this camera are:
a. Aperture 3.5.1 (I'm not using iPhoto since I have Aperture).
b. iMovie 10.0.1 (I'm not using Final Cut Pro)
When I first got this camera, Aperture 3 did not support the AVCHD Lite codec. Back then, iMovie could import video clips shot in AVCHD Lite, but it had to transcode the AVCHD video clips into AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec). Some time later, one of the Aperture 3 updates made it possible to import AVCHD Lite into Aperture (without having to transode into an intermediate codec), so we started importing our video clips shot in AVCHD Lite (together with our photos shot by the same camera) directly into Aperture.
iMovie 10 released in 2013 supports importing video clips shot in AVCHD Lite without having to transode them to AIC for storing these video clips in iMovie. So, now we have a dilemma that we need help with. Which application should we use going forward for importing video clips from this camera?
When I look at the metadata for the imported videos in Aperture, I see that the format of the imported video clips is listed as H.264. However, I can't seem to be able to find any information about the format in which iMovie stores imported videos. I can "Reveal in Finder" a video that I import into iMovie, and I see the size of the file and the .mov extension assigned to the file. With video files, the extension does not always determine the codec of the file, but in my non-expert opinion, the .mov extension is not H.264; I may be totally wrong here, though. What I have noticed, though, is that a video clip imported into iMovie has the file size that is about 10% larger than the same video clip imported into Aperture.
Therefore, I have three questions:
1. What format is a video clip (shot in AVCHD Lite) stored in Aperture 3.5.1 and in iMovie 10.0.1
2. Which format (the one used by Aperture or the one used in iMovie) is better suited for transoding AVCHD videos into? The balance of the quality and file size is the main consideration for us.
3. Which applications would you personally prefer using for importing video clips to and why?
I do want to use some of these video clips to make home videos in the future, utillizing iMovie. However, it seems I can still store the raw footage in Aperture and access this raw footage from iMovie to be able to create an iMovie project and a final home video. One of the concerns is that if we keep importing our video clips into Aperture, the Aperture library could grow beyond the size that Aperture can support and we may end up losing our photos due to the database corruption. Is this a real risk?
Thank you!

I had the same question recently. Go to the right of this box and a little above, into the Search Discussions window. Type in this: Is MPEG2 the answer
You will find my question, and the great answers I got. Follow those directions and you will be all set!

Aperture 3.4.3 video time off by 1 hour

Imported videos from a Canon Vixia 301M are ahead by one hour from the correct time. Contacted Canon support and the time stamp on the videos is correct. After importing, stills taken have the correct time but videos are ahead by 1 hour. Checked import settings time zones and they are both set to the same zone that I am in.

Richard,
For some cameras Aperture cannot recognize the correct time zone, ie, if the camera has a secondary date in the "Travelling" settings.
In that case Aperture assumes the time zone of the image files or videos is the system time. If your camera has been set to a time zone different from the time zone setting of your mac, you need to tell Aperture the correct time zone the camera has been set to in the Import settings when importing: In the "Time zone" brick set the camera time and the actual time to the zones you want: "camera time" (the time zone your camera was set to when taking the pictures) and "actual time" the time zone that should have been used.
You also can correct the timezone setting afterwards for all of them at once with
Metadata > Batch Change > Adjust Time Zone (not "Adjust date and time" - that will change the actual time settings and not Aperture's interpretation of the time).
Regards
Léonie
P.S. My Canon HG10 videos also import with a shifted Time Stamp. Now I don't bother wit the "Travel" setting in the camera any longer and have a default setting time zone correction in the Import panel.

Aperture 3.4.5 will not show NEF files after importing in OSx 3.8.5

Hi this is driving me crazy. I have quite a few NEF files from a Nikon E5000 that I would love to be able to process using Aperture but have run into a rather difficut situation. When I import my images into Aperture I can see the preview of the files in the browser but can not get them to display after they have been imported. I have tried importing localy through the internal hard drive on my IMac late 2007 as well as through an external NTFS formated USB backup of my files. It also chokes on direct imprting from the CF card using a card reader. In all cases they will sometimes display for a brief second both in the picture browser after importing or on the film strip view but will then disapear and display "unsupported image format" in its place. I have reinstalled aperture and run both repair persissions through disk utility and the aperture repair utility that ships with aperture. I have no problems with canon raw files or other file formats - jpg, tiff, png, photoshop, bmp. Also NEF files will open in lightroom 5 and photoshop cs6 with out issue as well.
Any help in restoring functionility would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the time and effort in advance.
Que Too

Nikon E5000
Do you mean a NIkon CP 5000 (Coolpix 5000)? Aperture supports many raw formats, but not all, because the raw support has to be camera specific. Not all NEF files are in the same format - all Nikon cameras will call their raw files NEF.
For some cameras Aperture never included raw support. The currently supported cameras are listed here:
http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html
It looks like your camera is not on this list, so if you want to shoot raw with that camera, develope the raw files using a different raw converter (Adobe's dng converter or the suftware that came with your camera) and import tiff or dng files to Aperture.
Regards
Léonie

5800 camera picture clarity.

i bought the 5800 recently and was blown away to have this phone.... but the camera looks like a let down in bad light.. the pics that i took came out grainy and hazy at night.. bright light pics are really gud...
Also the game that i have on my phone (the car game) hangs the phone and its psyching.. the phone doesnt respond at all and i have to remove the battery to set it right... any help appreciated...

How to take better photos on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
One of the interesting points brought out in my mention of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in my feature on phone camera apertures and sensor sizes was that the 5800's camera was distinctly under-sized compared to the likes of Nokia's awesome N95 and N82:
Quite a difference, but the presence of Carl Zeiss optics and the raw 3 megapixel resolution does leave some room for optimism. Yes, the camera on the 5800 XpressMusic isn't as good in all light conditions as the N82, for example, but as long as there's enough light then there's no reason not to still take some stunning photographs of your friends and the world around you.
And so taking photos on the device. As you might expect, my tips are largely as they'd be for any other camera-toting smartphone, with just a few tweaks:
The easiest way to start the Camera application is to press and hold the camera shutter key. Because Camera is kept loaded in memory on the 5800, it should appear almost instantaneously, ready for action. (Note that if you haven't used your 5800 for a minute or so previously, you may need to flick the keylock switch first)
Don't worry too much about dust on the camera lens, a brief wipe on a soft cloth is all that's needed to get rid of any finger grease - if you get too zealous about cleaning the glass, you'll end up with hundreds of micro-scratches. These won't affect photos too much, but they will look ugly.
Don't worry about changing 'scene mode' or other settings, most of them don't make any difference.
As mentioned above, know that the 5800 XpressMusic's camera is on the small side, physically, so you'll need to have lots of light around to register on the small sensor. Sunlight is best, of course, but there are still wide variations in light levels on overcast days. Low light means potentially 'noisy' photos. And focussing won't be as accurate. Shooting snaps indoors will often produce disappointing results, but you may be able to help by hitting that big, thumb-friendly flash icon and setting flash to 'on'. This is called fill-in flash and for subjects a metre or so away in indistinct indoor lighting, can make a difference.
The usual photo-taking tips apply, as with any camera phone: try to brace yourself when taking a photo, so that the device doesn't shake; wait a fraction of a second after the shutter sound before moving the phone down; think about the source of light and try to have it in the arc behind you if possible; for important static shots, take more than one, just in case - one may be sharper, better focussed or more shake-free.
By default, geotagging of your photos is turned OFF. If you think you'll be wanting to place your photos on a map later on (e.g. on Flickr or Share on Ovi) then go into 'Options - Settings' and turn 'Show GPS info' on. As usual with GPS, be aware that getting a position fix may take a minute or so if you've moved a long way from the last time you used the phone's GPS. And it won't work indoors unless you're close to a big window and feely lucky... The geotagging algorithms do allow a certain time leeway, i.e. they'll accept a previous position fix provided it wasn't too long ago.
Tapping on the envelope icon is the shortcut to use to fire your photo up to the world immediately - but that's another tutorial for another day!
source Steve Litchfield

Does Aperture support RAW 3F (*.fff) file format?

I am scanning all of my film with a Hasselblad FlexTight F1 scanner. I saved the files in their RAW format called 3F (*.fff). I am completely schocked that Aperture doesn't recognize the file format. After all, isn't Apple selling Aperture as "Professional Applications"? Hmm, what is more professional than scanning film with a $15,000 FlextTight scanner?
What are they thinking, or what am I missing? I just don't get it.

Well, if you look closely at the technical specifications (http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html), you'll see that Aperture is meant for digital images taken with a digital camera and not for scans, sorry.
Wide Support for RAW Formats from Leading Cameras
Aperture 3 supports the RAW formats from more than 150 digital cameras and camera backs. Aperture also lets you work with most DNG files.1 Shoot JPEG? Using Aperture, you can import JPEG images from virtually all digital cameras.
As a work-around, try another lossless format for your scans. Are your scans very large? Then you may possibly run into another problem because of the file size. I am having frequently problems with Aperture being unresponsive, if the image file size of my scans is close to 1 GB.

White Balance in LR vs. Aperture

I'm comparing LR and Aperture for use with my Pentax K10D. What's amazing is how different the RAW conversion is in each program. I now have a full appreciation of RAW files as "digital negatives" and the software programs as "developers".
For example, a RAW file that appears properly exposed on my K10D will also be properly exposed in LR. However, that same file will be overexposed by 2/3 a stop in Aperture (of course this is recoverable, but interesting nonetheless). I imagine this has something to do with the different tone curves applied to the RAW file by the camera, Aperture and LR. LR seems to be more similar to what is done in-camera on the Pentax K10D.
One thing I can't figure out though is why white balance values would be different in each program. I thought WB was simply stored as a number (kelvin) in the camera, and the RAW converter just reads that number. Clearly I'm mistaken here, because in several test photos I opened in both Aperture and LR, the white balance is dramatically different. (Both WB settings are "as shot"). For example, for the same photo, in Aperture WB was 5950 and in LR it was 4550.
The programs must have a different way of calculating or displaying this info, because when I use Aperture's WB settings in LR, or vice versa, the images don't look the same at all. The tint sliders seem to be very different as well.
Any insight you could offer on this would be appreciated. At the end of the day I can produce very similar results in both programs with adjustments, but I'm trying to figure out which one's default settings are closest to what I prefer.
Finally... what effect do the following preferences have, and is it advisable to use them?:
- "Make defaults specific to camera serial number"
- "Make defaults specific to camera ISO"

If you consistently get White balances in LR that are far off, it could be that the WB decoding algorithm for this camera is wrong. You might want to submit a bug report in that case. You should be able to see the actual white balance in the manufacturer's software (don't know if pentax makes any). You can also open it up in the open source dcraw (or its outstanding GUI derivative
ufraw) program. The author of dcraw has basically cracked all the RAW formats that are in use and it almost always reads white balance correctly. Also, exiftool might read those values.

Aperture RAW K-3

Apple has just release DCR 5.04, which finally includes support for the Pentax K-3. HOWEVER, at least with PEF RAW files from that camera, Aperture reports "Unknown lens" for all lenses. I have noticed before it does the same for JPEGs from this camera.
The EXIF information is clearly in the file, since if I use the Adobe DNG RAW converter to first convert the files to Adobe DNG, the lens information is included correctly.
Is there any Aperture preference setting that could address this? I'm guessing it's a bug that will never be fixed.

DNG files shot on the Pentax K-3 and imported into Aperture are displaying the correct lens identifications. PEF files are not. JPEGs are not either.

Aperture 2.1 hanging up with Leica M8

Ever since I upgraded to the latest rev of Aperture 2...2.1. Aperture has not been able to download images from my Leica M8. Upon connecting the camera, Aperture eventually creates an empty dashed line box of the image. If I hover my cursor over the image, the information including filesize is displayed, but the thumbnail is never created. Of course, this means I can't download from the camera. Strangely enough...Iphoto can still download the dng images. Help!

I just checked the Activity Monitor...something called ptpCamera crashes every time I connect the camera. BTW, Iphoto doesn't download the images either. It works on my other Mac, but continues not to work on this one. Both Iphoto & Aperture readily recognize the camera as an M8. once again...HELP!

Aperture cannot support Nikon df raw file

hey, i just bought a new nikon df camera, aperture cannot support my RAW NEF flie. is there any updates available?

Once Apple adds raw support, which will probably come in a Camera Raw system update rather than an Aperture update, the raw files should just start working. For the time being, configure your camera to shoot RAW+JPEG and then, in Aperture, select your imported photos and choose "Use JPEG as original" from the Photo menu. Or something like that. Later you can change it back to "Use raw as original".
Very jealous of your new camera!

IPhone opens Aperture import screen

For some reason, when I plug my iPhone into my Mac and Aperture is running, it automatically goes to the import screen. I have application launching disabled in Image Capture, so this only happens when Aperture is already open, but I thought it was a strange behavior. When I connect my digital camera, Aperture doesn't react and I have to manually click import if I want to import something. I would like my iPhone to behave the same way with Aperture. When I plug in my iPhone to sync, 99% of the time, it doesn't meant I want to import photos and its annoying to return my phone to it's cradle and have my photo editing interrupted by an import screen.
Does anybody know if there is a way to disable this auto import feature in Aperture with the iPhone??

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Aperture won't show the images I want to import

I don't use Aperture to manage my images, but import those I want to work with from folders on my Mac. When I try to import images from a recently acquired Panasonic LF1 camera Aperture only shows movie clips and not the JPEGs. The Import Settings for file types does not exclude anything. Importing is fine from other folders.
Thoughts, please.

When I try to import images from a recently acquired Panasonic LF1 camera Aperture only shows movie clips and not the JPEGs.
And how are the settings in the "raw&jpeg pairs" brick of the import panel? If that is set to "raw only", your jpegs will not be imported. Set the raw&jepg option to "both, jpeg as master"
The raw format of your camera does not yet appear to be supported.
http://www.apple.com/aperture/specs/raw.html
Regards
Léonie

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