Should i bother using aperture.....

with a G4 system i.e. my PowerBook. The thing crawls on my machine. I cant afford to own a G5...no space and its expensive.
Will i have to wait for an intel mac to enjoy the full capabilities?

When I was testing my memory I pulled everything but the last gig of memory and tested Aperture. SLOW..... Going back up to 2 gigs helped, but things really kicked in at 4 gigs. If you run Aperture and then also Activity Monitor you'll see the RAM usage, so yes going up in RAM will still help quite a bit as will the fastest video card you can get.
As far as backing up at the event, I'm against it as I would rather do it in a controlled environment. Too much going on at a wedding to try to remember which card you backed up etc. Keep it simple and always do the exact same thing. I put my cards in a pouch that is attached to my camera bag. Unused ones on top slid straight in. Used ones replace new ones and rotated 90º starting from the top working my way down. The pouch always stays in the same pocket and the tether makes sure of that.

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  • Should I bother with Aperture

    I'm a avid iphoto user and have about 20+ gigs of photos on my MBpro. I don't presently own a camera that shoots raw but expect to buy one in the next year or two. A photographer is going to give us a thousand pics from our recent wedding weekend and I wanted to know whether I should ask for them in raw or jpeg. I know iphoto can import raw but is it worth it to buy Aperture to possibly edit the pics? I fiddle with the histogram settings in iphoto quite a bit.
    Second question: is Aperture easy to administer? We are running out of room on our hardrive and will probably have to store some photos on an external drive. Is this complicated? Time Machine has nearly filled our 300gig external drive and so we will probably need to buy a larger external drive soon. Should I stick with iphoto or progress to Aperture?
    Any advice would be great. thx

    By all means get your wedding pix in RAW format. In fact the photog almost surely has the pix in RAW+JPEG, so he/she should be willing to deliver in both formats at no cost difference. In addition to allowing huge latitude in post-process editing, RAW captures contain more image data.
    I strongly recommend that every digital photog with adequate computer hardware first spend $33 and work through the tutorial CD Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training) by Orlando Luna and Ben Long (Paperback - Oct 18, 2006). Have the CD and a MacIntel with minimum 2 GB RAM (preferably more) prior to ordering the Aperture trial so you don't waste time of the 30 day trial. Note that the value is in the tutorial, not in using the book as a manual.
    IMO trying Aperture without the tutorial's guidance is a waste of time, leading to bad habits and/or just not getting it.
    Note that you probably should ignore Shell's confusing post above; IMO Shell is just confused.
    When you do go to buy a DSLR, note that there is always a delay from the time any brand new DSLR is introduced until various software supports the new model's RAW conversions. Different RAW converters variously show up sooner/later, and different RAW converters work better/worse with different models. E.g. Adobe's Nikon D300 conversions are out now but apparently do not do a very good job.
    Typically the time frame is 1-3 months, so the very earliest adopters of new models may have to wait a month or two to convert their RAW images. All good DSLRs have a RAW+JPEG capture choice, however, so even the earliest adopters can manage images immediately.
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    With 1.5's new feature to not contain all my photos within a single library file, should I leave my library as it is (after importing tonnes of photos) or should I move them all out into folders again?
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    Once your Aperture photos are in iPhoto, they are shared just like any others in iPhoto.
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    Can one store and use the Aperture library on a NAS (whose disk is formatted using a UNIX file system, e.g. EXT4) ?
    Not reliably, no. You will encounter issues. You could use Mac OS X disk images on the server, mount them on a client, and work that way. Note only one machine can mount the disk image at a time.
    If yes, does this work in both configurations: (a) with a library containing the masters, and (b) with a library with externally referenced masters (that are also located on the NAS) ?
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    If a user on a given Mac on the network has opened Aperture (and thus the library on the NAS), is this library the blocked for other users ? (That should ideally be the case.)
    Aperture does no locking. There is a very high likelihood you will corrupt the library if you do this.
    If it is NOT possible to use an Aperture library on the NAS, is it then possible to store it on an external, HFS+ formatted drive connected to the NAS via USB ? (QNAP allows to format its external drives with HFS+).
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    I know that putting everything on an iSCSI target volume on the NAS is a solution, but is iSCSCI properly working under OS X (10.6). I read that one has to install an iSCSI Initiator software first ... which is not from Apple itself.
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    Is usage of Aperture on a NAS depending on the file protocol used to transfer the data ? I read also that if one uses the AFP protocol (supported in a QNAP NAS) then everything's fine ... Is this the case ?
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    As a professional photographer myself, I realise this may affect your workflow but assuming you both have broadband speeds it is probably better to share projects via a dropbox solution such as iDisk on MobileMe or DropBox...
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