Thank you. I did look at that page and it is not there. But AWR seems to be Sony's RAW codec. It's been out for a long time. And, of course, many Sony cameras shoot RAW.
I just spent a bizarre 1/2 hour online with a tech who took over my computer and installed a conversion program called Image Data Converter. It's a basic program that allows one to work with raw files and then convert them to tiff or jpeg, but not raw to Aperture.
It's hard to imagine that Sony wouldn't have a plug in, but the nice tech didn't volunteer one and said Sony knows no Aperture, of course.
I guess I'll have to return the camera. too bad. it's seems great.