Justin gets the perfect camera to get you tackled at the airport…
The small corner of the internet that I lurk in is abuzz today about this Think Secret article that has heard that Apple has sacked the Aperture engineering team. I’m not sure it’s nearly as big a deal as some people say (software engineering teams come and go), and don’t think Aperture has been the resounding failure some do, but I also don’t have the same disdain for the program as a lot of people seem to.
I actually love Aperture, yes LOVE it. Once I got over the 1 Library file model, and adapted myself to it’s somewhat crappy file outputs, I quickly found myself using it nearly 100% for my photography needs, with the requisite trips to Photoshop for proper exporting (sans the extra sharpening Aperture applies). I love the non-permanent adjustments model, and find myself trying news things (like extreme crops or black and white conversion) that I might not have done before, knowing that I’d have to save a copy of the file just to hang on to those experiments, and losing any link between the newly adjusted file and it’s original.
Now, that being said, I hear there are lots of problems with the program, but I think I’ve managed to avoid them because of one huge difference in my workflow: I’m still using film.
Most of the bitching and moaning about Aperture (not that it’s unwarranted) has been about it’s RAW processing. I do still use my Canon 20D on a less then regular basis, but rarely do I do much with the files beyond a quick web gallery for family or friends to see (I mostly use it when traveling or just messing around). So I think I’m sidestepping 60-70% of the problems people have with the program and it’s processing of digital photos (it could also be that I expect digital photos to look like crap). Aperture’s TIFF processing is nearly flawless, and while it’s a little slow to edit the 50+ mb files coming from medium format film from the Nikon, the final product is great, and I would be extremely sad to see Aperture go away.
A little rundown of some of the discussion going around:
- A (gasp) useful Slashdot comment summarizing some of the problems people are having with Aperture
- The Slashdot article that comment was on
- Aperture and FEDM at Tow.com
- Discussion at Aperturetrick.com
- More at MacRumors
- Flickr’s Aperture Users group
- The most informed thoughts always seem to come from Mr. Gruber
If things went correctly, this photo got posted automatically, because I’m in Vancouver learning how to [build a house](http://www.tfguild.org/).
Sometimes it’s hard to come up with a title, ok?
Photos from the [M3 Summit](http://www.treemeat.com/text/21/) in Miami
Photos from the [M3 Summit](http://www.treemeat.com/text/21/) in Miami
Photos from the [M3 Summit](http://www.treemeat.com/text/21/) in Miami
Photos from the [M3 Summit](http://www.treemeat.com/text/21/) in Miami
I found $500 on the sidewalk today, and after a childhood of After School Specials and being a full on Cub Scout, I feel a civic duty to post a notice somewhere. But, after coming of age through MTV and Reaganomics, I’m looking out for #1. So I’m posting it here, counting on my belief that no one with money reads this site.
So… if anyone lost some money around Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, let me know. Otherwise, as Justin put it, “that’s awesome that you found a Hasselblad 150mm Sonnar lens on the sidewalk!”
So of course when I went through and scanned everything all over again, I kept track of which camera and what film was used for each roll. So then I added those fields to the database tables and went through and added that info to each of the photo’s here on Treemeat (it shows up in the meta-info section at the bottom of the photo page). This also let me add columns in the archive for camera and file type. This then let me rest well, flush with data rich photo geekery.
(Looks like I need to post some more Lomo and Mamiya shots, those guys look a little lonely.)
