Tethered Nikon Shooting with Aperture?

Is it possible to attach my Nikon D2x to my mac via firewire and then as I shoot, the images are transfered to Aperture? How do I do this?
Kevin Hawkins

Well, the D2x doesn't have Firewire (big Bronx cheer to Nikon), so you'll have to use USB 2.0. For cable lengths over 15', you need a "booster" cable that has a powered signal repeater on one end. The only brand I'm aware of is IOGear. You can get their 16' USB 2.0 Booster Cable from B&H for $25.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/357445-REG/IogearGUE216_USB_2_0_BoosterExtension.html
You can daisy-chain up to four of these if 16' isn't long enough for you.
As for using Aperture, you'll need Nikon's Camera Control utility, which Nikon sells separately (another Bronx cheer) to control the camera from the computer and transfer the files to the hard drive. Note that when shooting tethered with the D2x or D200, the camera will not save the files to the CF card in the camera (third Bronx cheer), so a backup strategy on the computer is important. FYI, Canon gives the option to save to CF or not when tethered.
Now, you'll want to download two files from Apple. One is Aperture Hot Folder.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/aperturehotfolder.html
This is basically a folder script that watches a folder and sends anything added to it to Aperture. When you launch this, it prompts you to select the destination folder you've designated in Camera Control and a project in Aperture. Then, it runs in the background.
Performance will be best if you turn off auto generation of previews in Aperture and tell Hot Folder to import the images as referenced rather than managed files. Even so, data transfer from the D2x to the hard drive is painfully slow, so you'll find the buffer filling and all shooting grinding to a halt after shooting a few dozen images in a minute or two. Ya just gotta wait for the buffer to clear. Another Bronx cheer for USB.
As for backup, there's an Automator action called Duplicate Files to Folder 1.0.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/duplicatefilestofolder.html
This watches a selected folder and automatically copies any incoming files to another folder (preferably on another hard drive). I haven't actually tried this one yet.
I've used a tethered D2x with Aperture on portrait sessions, and it works smoothly as long as you shoot slowly. Start blasting away at 12MP, though, and you can expect the buffer to inspire curses you didn't even know you'd forgotten.

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