Poor Nikon D70s RAW conversion

Hi,
Some RAW conversions from a Nikon D70s are very poor. A shot of pine trees and bare deciduous trees against blue sky shows 'green squares' artifacts at the tips of pine-needle clusters and in various places on the twigs of the bare trees. Also, there is a white halo around those twigs that are outlined against the sky.
It's the conversion, not the hardware, because Adobe Camera Raw doesn't show any of these artifacts.
Apple MUST get this part right if they want Aperture to succeed. I'm not even a pro photographer, but it's enough to make me hold off from using the software, at least for RAW.
(Of course, these artifacts also appear in all Apple RAW-handling products such as iPhoto and Preview.)
Gareth

Hi All,
Out of curiosity, I browsed Apple's example Tibet images to find one with nearground foliage, looked at it closely, and what do you know: same problems!
Look here and tell me you don't see it...
http://web.njit.edu/~russell/D70s.html
Apple's images are from a Nikon D2X, so perhaps it's a problem specific to Nikons/NEF, rather than the D70s (or MY D70s) in particular.
I haven't noticed any issues with other colors, so most of the images look ok -- it seems to be problem with how certain types of green highlights are being scaled. But I take a lot of landscapes, so it's definitely a problem for me.
Gareth

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http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/lightroom.png
And another, from iPhoto:
http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/iphoto.png
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Here is the same image read into Picasa (which also apparently reads camera raw files) on the PC:
http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/picasa.png
The pattern is gone and the image is usable.
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> you suggest that there are multiple raw images which are combined?
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If you download this image and view it in at least 600%, then you see this arrangement. (This image is very greenish, mainly because half of the pixels is green, while only 1/4 of them is red and another quarter is blue. This is a non-demosaiced image.)
http://www.panopeeper.com/Demo/Andrew_DSC_0014_crop.tif
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>Penny,
>
>Im unable to replicate your problem with the pumpkin shot.
>
>I get the opposite result from what you describe. The ACR default conversion is substantially less saturated and slightly underexposed compared to the in-camera JPEG embedded in the raw file AS EXPECTED.
>
>I have no idea whats wrong with your setup. :-/
>
>Lets continue this discussion on the forum.
>
>Email responses defeat the purpose of the forum, which is for everybody to benefit from all questions and answers, not just the original poster.
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