Apple Releases Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4

[MacRumors]

Apple today released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4, extending RAW file support for a number of cameras to Aperture 2 and iPhoto '08.

This update extends RAW file compatibility for Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08 for the following cameras:

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon PowerShot G10
Pentax K2000/K-m
Leaf AFi-II 6
Leaf AFi-II 7
Leaf Aptus-II 6
Leaf Aptus-II 7
Leica M8.2

It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and overall stability.

The update weighs in at 3.79 MB and requires OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5.3 or later.

Article Link: Apple Releases Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4

[amac4me]

Cool, support is now available for my Canon EOS 5D Mark II

[ChrisA]

It also addresses issues related to specific cameras and overall stability.

I like the part about "overall stability". Just this morning and last night Aperture was in a "crash loop" where It would run for 5 minutes then crash and Mac OS would offer a dialog box asking if I wanted to restart. I'd click "restart" and in a very few minutes. Crash again. Turns out I had to disable the generation of pre-views. I had just imported 350 large TIFF files (100MB to 1GB each) and Aperture was likely choking of those large files and crashing. It would be nice to have preview images to work with.

[Aetles]

Hopefully it fixes this annoying issue for Nikon owners introduced by Camera Raw 2.3.

[Michael73]

I've been thinking about getting the G10 because I wanted to take advantage of the RAW capability but was worried there was no compatibility on the apple side. I worry no more.

[RussOniPhone]

Seems like Apple fixed the intermittent green raw file problem, Thank you Apple.

[lostngone]

Reboot required, Come on... Really??? This isn't a system update.

This is just silly in a Unix environment to have to reboot the whole system for an update like this.

[fendol]

PC influences...

I'm glad this new update was released because the RAW capability just wasn't being taken advantage of because of some issues

[Serif]

Originally Posted by lostngone

Reboot required, Come on... Really??? This isn't a system update.

This is just silly in a Unix environment to have to reboot the whole system for an update like this.

Yes. Coming from a Unix/Linux background the number of updates put out that require a restart was quite an eye opener. If Debian can update everything including the kernel without requiring a reboot, you'd think Apple might be able to manage things like updates to image capture/conversion libraries in the same way.

[overcast]

Originally Posted by lostngone

Reboot required, Come on... Really??? This isn't a system update.

This is just silly in a Unix environment to have to reboot the whole system for an update like this.

Probably because it updates core functionality to things like Finder and QuickView.

[dubhe]

Come on Apple!!! I have had my Panasonic Lumix LX3 since the summer and am still waiting for RAW compatibility for it. How long does it take?

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by overcast

Probably because it updates core functionality to things like Finder and QuickView.

Yes, it is still silly to have to re-boot a UNIX system just because of the above changes. With other OSes you can even change out device drivers on a running system.