Digital BW, The Print

Yea, I think they are on to something but as he said Apple is never
going to compete primarily on price. As someone who is teaching some
of the next generation I can see that as of this quarter none of them
is using film anymore. And, my lectures on scanning is becoming less
relivant. Before they even learn Photoshop they are working with the
Canon camera raw interface. Digial camera workflow is where its at and
Canon is advancing their raw interface too as of course is Photosop
CS2 with the Bridge. 

If you are an image editor I think Aperture could really be useful.
The most innovative thing I saw in it also was that loupe zoom
feature. They are going into the realm of not having to open any files
to evaluate their most important qualities. Batch processing is
becoming bigger and bigger for photograpers who have to do more in
less time, with someone looking over their shoulder. When these
cameras end up capturing 16 and soon 32 bit regularly who is going to
want to open up all those files when you have to work fast. I'm glad I
don't have to work fast....The one thing all this is going to produce
is a new profession, photographer's onsite image editor at the laptop
specialist.


John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
>
> I just went through the tours.  Really quite an amazing first draft.
 There
> are gaps.  I did not see any curves adjustments or chromatic aberration
> correction but I am sure they are not far behind.  The intention
here is to
> create a full editing application (eg spotting and cloning) -
staying in RAW
> the whole time.  It does of course have a gateway to your favourite
image
> editor.  The loupe tool is very cool.  Check out the smart web
galleries.
> The workflow looks amazing but the proof will be in colour rendition for
> each type of camera, specific cameras, and its adoption by/support
of third
> party plugins etc.
> 
> 
> > From: Steve Kale <stevekale@b...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:04:05 +0100
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Conversation: [Digital BW] OT perhaps but this could be
interesting:  Apple's
> > Aperture
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OT perhaps but this could be
interesting:  Apple's
> > Aperture
> > 
> > The pro boys on Rob Galbraith's site are really very excited about
it.  Mac
> > only.  Could have an impact similar to Final Cut Pro on video editing.
> > 
> > And then there's the new G5s!  Only an interim solution prior to
the move to
> > Intel chips but I didn't think my 2x2.5Ghz machine was going to be
dwarfed
> > so quickly.  Quad G5! Two dual core 2.7Ghz processors. PCI
Express.  My G5
> > feels very old and sick already...
> > 
> > 
> >> From: Mark Savoia <mark@c...>
> >> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:54:15 -0400
> >> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OT perhaps but this could be
ineresting:  Apple's
> >> Aperture
> >> 
> >> I stopped by the Apple store yesterday to inquire and THEY had just
> >> learned of it so had no info to pass on. It looks very interesting
> >> and laid out like most Apple apps, easy to figure out without a
> >> manual. Wonder how Adobe feels about it?
> >> Mark
> >>
>