Hacking Leopard to support the Olympus E-3

Question

A while back, I tried this hack in an attempt to trick Aperture into supporting my Olympus E-3. I added the following line to Raw.plist:
<key>Olympus E-3</key> <string>Olympus E-510</string>
updated the hash in CodeResources, restarted the machine, and hoped for the best. The result was that E-3 ORFs displayed as gray squares in Aperture.
The missing step was to use Adobe DNG Converter to convert the ORFs to DNGs. Once I did that, the images rendered just fine in Aperture.
I'm still disgusted that I had to resort to this nonsense to display the images from my camera.
Cheers,
Andreas

Answer 1

I stumbled across this thread and understand how you guys feel about cameras not being supported within aperture. For so long we waited for Leica M8 & DMR support only to find the M8 support did not match the colour matrix values in the camera. There is still no DMR support but with the introduction of Leopard Apple finally fixed the matrix values for the M8. We have the DMR working in aperture but we have to reduce the 16bit files to 14bits before it would work.
Anyway I've downloaded a E-3 file from the web, and run it through exiftool to get the matrix values and coded up a raw.plist entry for the E-3. Seeing as I don't have E-3 I can't fully gauge the accuracy of the matrix values I've entered but perhaps you'll try them and see how you get on.
Some things you need to do....
1,First thing to do is download PlistEdit Pro, the trial version is fully functional and will get you going. Download it and install it. The raw.plist file is located inside /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle, when you navigate to rawcamera.bundle you'll need to right click it and select show package contents from the drop down menu. You'll then see a window open up with a contents folder, open that and open resources folder and you'll find raw.plist.
2. You need to make a copy of the raw.plist file in case you make a mess of things. I usually copy it to my desktop.
3. The raw.plist file in the resources folder is a protected system file and you need to change the permissions on it to allow you to edit and save your changes. To do this right click the raw.plist file and select Get Info from the drop down menu. In the new menu down the bottom you'll see sharing and permissions, you'll need to add your username to the list and change all the permissions of the names to read and write. You may need to click the lock and enter your password to change these settings. I also set the open with to use PlistEdit Pro here. Close this Info menu and re-boot your Mac.
4. Go back to the raw.plist as you did in section 1. and double click it and it should open in PlistEdit Pro. Then in the PlistEdit Pro window there are 2 panes, we are going to work in the bottom window, I suggest you maximise the application and drag the window bar up to give yourself as much room as possible. If you scan down the entries you will notice the various camera entries start with a <key>Camera Name</key> and end with a </dict> entry. You need to find a </dict> click your mouse after it and press the enter key. This will insert a blank line into which you paste the text from the bottom of this post. Remove any blank lines before and after your paste. Save the raw.plist and close PlistEdit Pro.
5. Leopard uses a checksum to validate all system files and make sure they have not been damaged by malware. We need to change the checksum for the edited raw.plist file.
Back in the contents folder of the RawCamera.bundle you'll see CodeResources, right clic that and open with PlistEdit Pro. Click the files triangle and you'll see an entry for Resources/Raw.plist and in the value column there is a 20 digit check sum. We need to update this value. Open a treminal window and type the following openssl dgst -sha1 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/Raw.plist and press enter, this will return a new checksum for the raw.plist file. Cut and paste this value into the value column for the raw.plist entry in the top window section. Save and close the CodeResources file. Reboot your mac once again.
6. Use Adobe's camera raw to batch process your ORF's to DNG's before importing into Aperture. The options for compression and jpeg preview should be de-selected(not ticked). Then import these converted DNG's into aperture and they should work.
7. I know it's not a proper fix but at least it will get you up and running. If you do proceed, keep these instructions because every time Apple update the core image services you'll need to re-apply this patch until proper E-3 support is added.
8. You do this at your own risk, but Enjoy!.
The raw.plist entry to paste.....
<key>Olympus E-3</key>
<dict>
<key>bexp</key>
<real>-0.69999999999999996</real>
<key>black</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>black1</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>black2</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>cnacc</key>
<real>0.0013392</real>
<key>cnadc</key>
<real>0.11158</real>
<key>cnaec</key>
<real>0.029999999999999999</real>
<key>cnat</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>cnbcc</key>
<real>0.00044030000000000002</real>
<key>cnbdc</key>
<real>-0.23002</real>
<key>cnbec</key>
<real>21.879000000000001</real>
<key>cnbt</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>esein_0</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>esein_1</key>
<real>2.5499999999999998</real>
<key>esein_2</key>
<real>2.7000000000000002</real>
<key>eseth</key>
<real>2.3199999999999998</real>
<key>eseth_0</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>esint</key>
<real>0.59999999999999998</real>
<key>esint_0</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>gresc</key>
<real>2.7000000000000002</real>
<key>gresc_0</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>m1</key>
<array>
<real>1.1004</real>
<real>-0.44409999999999999</real>
<real>-0.023199999999999998</real>
<real>-0.62990000000000002</real>
<real>1.4071</real>
<real>0.24279999999999999</real>
<real>-0.086999999999999994</real>
<real>0.1459</real>
<real>0.74219999999999997</real>
</array>
<key>m2</key>
<array>
<real>0.94869999999999999</real>
<real>-0.28749999999999998</real>
<real>-0.1115</real>
<real>-0.75329999999999997</real>
<real>1.5606</real>
<real>0.20100000000000001</real>
<real>-0.1618</real>
<real>0.20999999999999999</real>
<real>0.7389</real>
</array>
<key>max</key>
<integer>3600</integer>
<key>mc</key>
<array>
<real>0.92020000000000002</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>1</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>0.0</real>
<real>1.0469999999999999</real>
</array>
<key>nek1</key>
<real>0.0097999999999999997</real>
<key>nek2</key>
<real>3.8000000000000002e-05</real>
<key>nek3</key>
<real>1.02e-08</real>
<key>nek4</key>
<real>0.0</real>
<key>nek5</key>
<real>3.0000000000000001e-06</real>
<key>nek6</key>
<real>-3.4999999999999999e-09</real>
<key>otrc</key>
<array>
<real>0.33300000000000002</real>
<real>0.095000000000000001</real>
<real>1.522</real>
<real>0.23999999999999999</real>
<real>1.397</real>
<real>0.61799999999999999</real>
<real>0.998</real>
<real>0.68000000000000005</real>
</array>
<key>scal1</key>
<real>0.35999999999999999</real>
<key>scal2</key>
<real>0.29999999999999999</real>
<key>spknd</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>spt1</key>
<real>600</real>
<key>spt2</key>
<real>0.40000000000000002</real>
<key>white</key>
<integer>3600</integer>
</dict>