IPhoto 08 doesn't import RAW

Hello everyone, Would be grateful for your help. I just recently got a MBPro, imported photos into iPhoto which is fine with Jpegs. I have a lot of photos taken with Sony DSC-R1 camera and when I try to import the Raw photos from the folder in which I have stored them on my laptop, iPhoto says "unable to recognise format" & fails to import the photographs. May I also ask if Aperture will support the Sony DSC-R1 Raw (not listed on Aperture website but the older Sony 828 camera is listed) and if it does currently or in future, do I really need both iPhoto and Aperture or can I just use Aperture for management and editing ? I used Photoshop CS2 before but it was so slow with Sony R1 Raw (big files) that I gave up. Highly obliged for your help. Regards, Raj

I guess the real question is how can I get my Canon Rebel 300D to work seamlessly on my new iMac. I want to set up a work flow that is efficient. I hate the consumer based interface for iphoto. I had higher hopes for aperture. I was told it did not change the actual pixels. and it did not work well with Canon's CRW format. In other words color management was lost. I had Photoshop when i was running mac book on 10.3. Do they have any upgrade yet for a Tiger?
Now I have this problem....
Last night when I used a LACIE card reader to down load from the compact flash and it asked after down loading do you want to erase the file on the disk and I clicked yes. I had two separate disks and neither one will work in the camera now. The camera reads an error code of Error 02 or errorCFI don't have another card to try. I recently bought the 2 GB. It been used twice...
I tried to Format the disk like the instruction manual says and by putting it in the camera and it continues to read Error 02 or Error CF.

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