Panasonic GF1 RAW missing from Aperture 3

because that is rumors and speculation

if Apple does pre-advertise support and something happens and that feature is delayed Apple could POSSIBLY open themeless to possible litigation

Malcolm ... This is why I worry about an Aperture 3 future.

I'm pretty sure that, in time, Apple will fix the problems with A3. And it looks like we will get (finally) GF1 support.

However, I'm probably not alone in thinking ... when will we have to go through this again?

Many of us change cameras frequently. With Pany announcing new models shortly, how long will we have to wait for RAW updates on those? Months? Or maybe never?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Adobe doesn't announce proactively that they're releasing RAW updates. But at least they have a history of supporting a broad range of cameras and the updates seem to come quickly.

The secrecy from Apple is making me seriously consider LR.

Has anyone noticed that, using this hack, the manipulations of the GF1 files kind of... suck?

I'm sitting here using the SilkyPix application that came with the camera. It's clunky and ugly, but it handles the files really well...

The update is here!
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1007

Hurrah! GF1 is finally supported!

Will I need to re-import images that had been imported into Aperture with the camera RAW hacks?

Thanks,
Ken

No.

Select them and use Photos->Reprocess Master… to re-render them now that they're supported and you're good to go.

I'm not sure you need to do that kenneth. If it worked at the time of the "hack" the photos continue to show fine in the 3.0.1 update. I just tried it. Unless you want to see "GF1" instead of "GH1" on your data?

Presumably Apple adding support for the format indicates they did testing and optimized the program for the files. As such, it's quite likely that using the official Apple "render" will give better results.

I order to avoid changes in the complete photo library I have patched the executable file:

../Contents/MacOS/RawCamera

simply replace the string DMC-GH1 by DMC-GF1. I did it with sed:

sed 's/DMC-GH1/DMC-GF1/' RawCamera > RawCamera.Updated
cp RawCamera RawCamera.Original
cp RawCamera.Updated RawCamera

su or root access rights are reqired to do this.

When you do this you can use the GF1 raw files directly. If it doesn't work or you have problems simply reinstall Apple's raw update 3.0.

Now I can import directly from the camera. Works without problems.

Can anyone report on how RAW conversions compare between this and LR?

Randy Preising wrote:
Can anyone report on how RAW conversions compare between this and LR?

I did a test with a friends' GF1 (he was a happy man today). There is not that much of a difference, but LR's rendering is a bit oversaturated and oversharpened to my test. I always liked AP's more neutral render than ACR's. I feel it to be closer to what the camera caught.

But that's me, and LR overprocessing is easily manageable. AP and LR have very good raw engines and, IMO, the more consistent ones. Images processed with these programes will be between good and perfect, whereas Bibble and CaptureOne produced (for me at least) images that went from horrible to perfect (Capture One acts strangely with some Canon cameras). That's why these are the programs I recommend.

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Thanks Manusnake - I may pick up an A3 upgrade disk after all.

Thank you for supporting m43 Cameras! I'm also pleased with Aperture 3's brushes... it's a bit slow on my early intel imac (no dual cores) but is really useful.