RAW formats not supported

Question

Is it possible to know Apple has the intention to support file formats like the ones of the Olympus SP series? I own an Olympus SP-350 (it came out one year ago) but MacOS doesn't still support it (i.e. neither iPhoto nor Aperture). Since Adobe supports the format since last january (and now it's november) I almost lost my hopes about. I like Aperture and I'd surely buy it but... for the moment it's useless for my camera.
PowerMac G5 dual; MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

I agree it's frustrating not to know whether Aperture ever will support your specific camera's raw format. In addition to various DSLRs, I use an Epson R-D1 (a professional rangefinder camera using the Leica M lensmount, fairly popular with wedding and documentary photographers) and the only thing that's stopping me from standardizing on Aperture is that I don't know if Epson's .ERF format will ever will be supported. (Having to convert to 16-bit TIFFs seems to me to negate most of the advantages of using raw-based management software.)
I understand that unlike Adobe (which I've read licenses an open-source library for much of its raw support) Apple fine-tunes and optimizes its own raw conversion code for specific cameras, and I agree that it makes more sense for Apple to concentrate its engineering resources on the most popular DSLRs and digital backs.
But I think it might benefit a lot of users if Apple would periodically publish a "roadmap" indicating current camera models which it tentatively intends to support at some future date.