Canon Powershot S50 hack to be supported by Aperture 2.

Question

Hello S50 users (and possibly others).
I do have a Minolta SLR, and a old PowerShot S50 which happens to have a RAW mode, unlike new compacts by Canon. I also bought a waterproof case for it, so it's my only one which i want to risk it underwater. As many of you know, the S50 is essentially an S60 (supported, by the way) with a different zoom.
I downloaded the Aperture 2 trial today, and immediately seen that Aperture 2 doesn't rely anymore on RAW.plist, as the old trick of duplicating the S60 section and naming it S50 doesn't work.
So I got an hex editor, replaced the "Powershot S50" with "Powershot S60" in the raw file and wow! here it goes. Well, I've some hundreds of them and... well, here's the final solution which will solve this problem once and for ever. This script will look in the current directory for .CRW files and replace " S50" with " S60" letting Aperture 2 manage those files. Hope it will be useful for anyone puzzled by this questionable "feature". P.S. Both "S" have a space in front, just in case...
Bye
Paolo
#!/bin/bash
for file in *.CRW
do
perl -pi -e 's/ S50/ S60/g' $file;
echo $file" done."
done
exit 0

Answer 1

Or convert the RAW to DNG. AP2 will be able to view the S50 this way.