When will Aperture have support for RAF files from the new Fuji XPro-1?

How long does it normally take to get the RAW file format updated? Fuji say they sent the file details to Apple many weeks ago. This is a camera being given fantastic reviews in all professional magazines worldwide - but I'm stuck with an Aperture folder full of "unsupported image format" files.

Really annoying as I use the full suite of Nik plug-ins so I can't do anything with these files until Aperture is updated.

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.3), RAW files

Posted on Apr 16, 2012 11:07 AM

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Oct 25, 2012 5:16 AM in response to Keith Barkley

And here we are nearly 7 months later and still no support. Do Apple require companies to pay them in the same way that companies have to pay supermarkets to carrty their goods?

I can think of no reason why this should still be an unsupported camera. There are now half a dozen unsupported cameras in the Fuji X range.

I have close to two thousand images that I can only use in out of camera jpeg format.

Truly pathetic performance by Apple.

Jan 5, 2013 5:03 PM in response to fujifan

@fujifan

You now see one of the major issues with shooting raw. Yes, raw is wonderful and forever I can praise it. Still raw is not an ISO standard, each manufacture has their own raw files, even different raw files within their own camera lines. To be able to provde support third party software vendors must reverse engineered those raw files.


On top of that software vendors, Apple, Adobe, and the like do drop support for older raw files. For long term archive file type raw is not the best choice. Do not believe me check what happened to the BBC photo files a few years ago.


Do not blame Apple, Adobe, and their ilk, the blame goes squarely on the camera vender's software writers. Today's JPG Fine Large is better than a few years back raw files.


My comments are not to start a JPG vs raw (it is not RAW, we do not say RAW meat or RAW vegetable), so keep your JPG vs raw to yourself.

Feb 8, 2013 9:20 AM in response to Ric Donato

Per an interview with a spokeswoman from Fuji, they have indeed provided Apple (and Adobe as well) all the needed technical information in order to support the RAW files (i.e. algorithmic information created by Fuji for the non-standar filter array, etc etc). Please don't spread any more misinformation about it, it's already been flamed to death on all the online camera forums. You can still choose to 'blame' whomever you wish about why it's still not supported by Apple, but you can no longer reasonably assert that Fuji hasn't done their part by providing them what they need. Nondisclosure agreements were signed as well.


Having said that, I find it ridiculous at this point that it's not supported, for several reasons, some being the seemingly similar Fuji users who also use Aperture as well as the opportunity here for Apple to take some market from Adobe (who as of yet are not producing very great output files for Fuji X-trans). Apple was/has been at a disadvantage to Adobe for a long while now, and being an outsider, I presumed Apple would want to take advantage of this (and any similar) opportunity to grab some share from Adobe. I was well wrong, and it seems that other lesser-known-used companies are now doing just that.


Well good on them. I for one will be looking at any/all (new)comers and will certainly be going with the best of those. Sorry Apple, you lost another one. There was a real competition, for me, btwn Aperture and LR4 up till this point. You'd have to pull a rabbit out of your hat to keep my Aperture biz.

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