does aperture handle dng files from a scan?

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does aperture handle dng files from a scan?

I'm scanning 35 mm slides via a Pacific Image 5000 through Vuescan. The advice the manual gives me (Vuescan) is to scan raw to a disc and then read the scan via Vuescan to do some basic clean-up. I 'd to send this processed image raw (.dng) to Aperture for final processing and saving without going through saving other formats .(pdf, tiff, etc) intil I 'm done with the image. Can this be done? Aperture says the dng file is not in a format it can read. How can that be if Aperture is supposed to handle raw?

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 2, 2014 11:13 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Apr 2, 2014 11:19 AM in response to ro7ger

Aperture can handle many raw formats, but not all. mainly the raw formats of professional cameras. And it will depend on your Aperture version, which raw formats are supported. See this list:

Apple - Aperture - Technical Specifications - RAW Support

As to DNG-files, see this footnote:

Aperture works with most DNG files generated from cameras that support this format and with DNG files generated by the Adobe DNG Converter with the “Convert to Linear Image” option turned off.

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Answer 2

Apr 2, 2014 3:03 PM in response to ro7ger

I'm pretty sure DNG files generated from Vuescan do not work. They are linear DNG files, which aren't supported by Aperture.

Note there is essentially NO advantage to creating DNGs from scans. They are not true raw files. If you want the best image quality, you should use TIFF.

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