Why still no Canon EOS 550D Support

Welcome to the forum.

This question gets posted almost every day, but this is not the place to communicate with Apple.

That would be here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html

DLS

Oh, cry me a river!

That camera was just announced last month, and the camera makers typically provide no help to third party software in decoding the raw format they use. It takes time for those companies to add support, and it's often a question of priorities. You're lucky, in that you have a Canon, and Apple seems to support the Canon and Nikon cameras quickly. The most recent camera update included support for cameras that had been out for over six months or longer from other manufacturers.

Perfectly agree.

Adobe doesn't support it either, you need Lightroom 3 beta 2 to have it supported, and I've read that it has a lot of problems with it, mainly very poor performances. It is a beta profile, in a beta software, so nothing to complain about.

Apple will support it in due time. As Ailish Eklof pointed out, Canons are updated faster than others (like, say, Pentax), just like Nikons. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that each has about 40% of the DSLR market, and all the other brands share the remaining 20%. Just a matter of priorities.

You could also email Canon to open their RAW format or to use DNG or whatever, same for Nikon, Sony and others.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lightroom+beta

Just bear in mind what Manusnake said...

Ian

Oh, and by the time Lightroom 3 goes final, somewhere around the summer I guess, there are 95% of chance that Aperture supports the 550D, and it'll probably be at the next minor version by then (3.0.3, or whatever).

Aperture usually supports a Canon camera between 1 and 3 months after it reaches the streets. It mostly depends on when Canon actually makes it available to Apple so they can reverse engineer the raw files.

I don't know if there is a way to tell Canon, Nikon and others to stop doing this and to let us use whatever software we like whenever we like, especially since Nikon and Canon software are so poor in a lot of ways compared to Aperture or Lightroom (just look at their UI, yuk!).

I'm a Nikon shooter, I love their cameras and I never buy a camera less than 6 months after it went out, if only to save bucks (and I don't consider model 1.0 totally outdated when model 1.1 goes out). I actually plan on buying a D90 when its successor comes out later this year (if Nikon has any logic), so I'll get a lower price. 12.3 MP is pretty good for me, and it'll be a big jump from my current D50.

EOS 550D/Rebel T2i is now supported with the latest RAW support update to Aperture 3. Not supported in Aperture 2.

BTW this delay is not a reflection of poor support by Apple, rather it is an issue with there being no standard for RAW which all camera manufacturers support. Adobe's dng format is the closest thing and you can use their free s/w to convert other RAW file outputs to this "standard".

Sorry, meant too add this link for the RAW support update.....

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1035