Minolta DiMAGE A200 support broke with Camera Raw 2.1

Hi,
I am new to this forum, but I hope someone can help.
Using Aperture since 1.5 with a couple of cameras I started with my Minolta DiMAGE A200. Unfortunately this camera was not supported by Aperture, but the identical A2.
Of course there was a trick to bring A200 Raw support to Apple by editing Raw.plist . This worked perfectly (since the RAW files are identical for A200 and A2).
With Camera Raw update 2.2 onwards this trick does not work anymore. The syntax and I also think the OS internal handling of Raw files did change. Worse, Mac OSX 10.5.6 seems to need Camera Raw >2.1 . So staying with the old Camera Raw package does not work.
Of course I don´t want to blame Apple for breaking a hack, but since the beginning I never understood, why Apple does not support a identical camera model!
Has anybody similar issues or a hint how to proceed? (without going to .dng)
Best regards
Joe

Hi all,
I contacted Konica Minolta tech support and they confirmed that the A200 is supported under Tiger (10.4) and should also work with iPhoto. Here's the email I received:
"The camera will work on OS Tiger but we cannot comment on iPhoto as it is not one we have tested it on however we provide software called DiMAGE Viewer which will work with the camera. We have many customers using the camera with Tiger with no issues."
I then found the following Mac OS compatibility info on Konica's tech support site:
http://www.konicaminoltaphotoworld.com/kmsupport.com/Compatibility.3036.0.html?& L=0#).
To summarise, Konica state that Mac OS 10.1 - 10.3 are fully supported and limited testing has shown that 10.4 works as well. There's no mention of iPhoto compatibility. The document also mentions possible file corruption for transfers over 10 mins and issues with date and time info not being transferred to the Mac. I thought these were a tad worrying so I sent a follow-up email to Konica tech support. Here's the reply I received:
"It should work fine with Iphoto.The information regarding MAC OS X.
There can be corruptions with transfers of over 10mins but not necessarily and therefore it is recommend to split transfers and also the data and time may not be transferred correctly and these I am afraid are issues which should be resolved when newer DiMAGE Software is released, however they might not occur at all and is only a precaution."
So... it's all a bit vague. Seems like it will definitely work with OS 10.4 but you might get some of the problems mentioned above... and then again you might not! Also, in the above reply, Konica mention that these issues should be fixed in a new version of their DiMAGE software. So maybe these issues don't occur if you just use iPhoto? Who knows....
I'm still trying to decide whether the A200 is the camera for me.
Cheers,
Stuart

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