Comments on: Apple gets raw support for Nikon D90, other SLRs

An update means iPhoto '08 and Aperture 2 can handle raw images from newer SLR cameras, including the Nikon D90, Canon 50D, and Sony A900.

[ballmerisanape]

Is this different than the update from about a month ago?

[aMUSICsite]

Different cameras I guess, still no legacy support. I guess the current Apple way would be.

"Well if you have old photos taken with an old digital camera buy a new camera and re-take the photos. Don't you know new cameras are better than than old one's"

Apple needs to add the hundreds of legacy formats (most of which worked fine on Tiger) rather than this drip drip few at a time. Photo's are not like firewire you can't just suddenly say we are only supporting current image formats!

And I guess iPhoto (and possibly Apature) look like you will only get support if you are on the latest version. Apple do love to get you spending more and more money to keep things working.

[Philips]

I understand the gripes of people over format support.

And normally Apple is very very careful at supporting in new versions all the formats older versions had supported.

This is in no way excuse, but you have to recall that whole Aperture 1.x dev team was sent packing for producing rather unusable piece of the software. Aperture 2.x is completely new development, thus it seems that older format support can't be simply ported over from Aperture 1.x.

[gigo1000]

I'm surprised Adobe and Apple can keep up with all the new models - let alone the old.

[Vegaman_Dan]

I'm pleased to see Apple add this to their consumer product operating system. I wish we could use more RAW data from photos across all platforms.