New photographer, new camera, no support in Aperture: Have you been there?

So I can't ask when support for the EOS 450D (Canon EOS Rebel XSi) might mystically appear, because nobody ever talks about product release dates, I guess.
So let me ask the opposite question - how often have updates happened in the past? Every month? Every two months? Every six? Are they coming more frequently? If you had an unsupported camera, how long did you have to wait?
And when was the last update?
I went out and bought Aperture and the new XSi, and it never even crossed my mind to ask if it was a supported combination - I chose the camera based on the features I needed, and just assumed that Aperture would work with it.
I'm feeling a wee bit stupid, and a wee bit sore about it, especially since, par for course, I guess, it looks like it works just fine with Adobe's products.
And does anyone have any recommendations for what to do in the meantime? For now I'm using Aperture to pull in the photos, and then pulling stuff into Photomatix to do HDR (I have some lovely dreamy hallucination that maybe someday Photomatix will add a plugin for Aperture to the mix, but I guess it's not really that good of a UI fit)...
I suppose I could use hot folders to import via a tool which does the conversion externally, in the meantime - can anyone recommend what tools might be a good fit?
Ah well.

Adsy wrote:
The XSi (450D) is brand new. Adobe only just started supporting it a week or so ago. I expect Aperture will do so in the not too distant future.
In the meantime, you can use Adobe's free DNG converter program to convert the RAWs to DNG which can be imported into Aperture and work fine. The DNGs are still RAW, just a different format which Aperture can understand.
Agreed, but note that DNG is usually a "filter" of sorts to the true original RAW data, as is Aperture. Let's hope that Apple does indeed reduce the wait time for Aperture/RAW support for your camera. You may want to experiment with your camera vendor's free RAW converter as well.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

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