Apple's Photokina event has started

Apple's special event at Photokina is underway. At the moment they are discussing the transition to Intel (which went smoothly) and heralding Aperture as the 'ultimate darkroom.' More info as we get it.

As we suspected, Aperture is the star of the show. Testimonials from a number of photographers are being played, and they are all heralding Aperture as super cool.

Apple has just introduced Aperture 1.5. More details to come.

Aperture 1.5 has a new library system with better support for external storage, DVD's, as well as RAID. This should make a lot of Aperture users happy. iLife integration is also new, with support for a plugins framework. Plugins for Gettyimages, iStockPhoto, Flickr are included with more on the way. The magnifying function has been improved and one can now magnify images up to 1600%. The XMP format is now supported for exporting image data. You can get information about a photo without the RAW file being available to Aperture (i.e. it is on a disconnected external device). iPod integration is also new to this point release (you can store photos on your iPod).

The biggest piece of news for current Aperture users is that this will be a free upgrade, and it will be available this week.

And the event is over. A very special thanks to MacNotes.de for there wonderful coverage.

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Ryan Biesemeyer

As a web-journalist working for AOL Time Warner, you should know the differences between "there", "their", and "they're". Synonym interchange makes you appear uneductated; if you don't know, look them up.

September 26 2006 at 12:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony

I'm still on the fence between Aperture and Lightroom (been trying Beta 3, will download the newly released Beta 4 tonight...) I'm just glad there's some real competition between the two. I'm hoping Aperture enhances RAW support...that's one area where Lightroom has it easily beat. Apple should just license Adobe Camera RAW and be done with that portion. Aperture has better organizational tools, though, IMO.

And for those of you whining about no MBP announcement...get real! Seriously. This is a very NARROWLY FOCUSED event, aimed specifically at professional photographers. An update to Aperture is VERY big news for professionals. This isn't MacWorld. Hell, it's not even the Developers Conference.

What's next:

"This is LAME! Steve Jobs was on Conan O'Brien last night, and there was NO NEW MBP ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!"

or

"OMFG! Apple released their quarterly earnings report, and there was NO MBP announcement! C'mon Apple, get with the program!!!!!"

Seriously. You people crack me up. So clueless...

September 25 2006 at 2:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mitch Aunger

Geez John Wright... does everyone have to fit into your opinion of the world? Apple's providing great tools and doing this update for free and you worry about who is using flickr?

September 25 2006 at 1:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patrick Bennett

Sigh, Apple.com is updated with the new info and there's still no support for the Nikon D80 RAW NEF files. So far, it seems as though only the LIghtroom Beta has this.

:(

September 25 2006 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Wright

Exactly! What pro photographer uses flickr?

September 25 2006 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Tyznik

I want flickr export built into iPhoto. I'd think more people using flickr use iPhoto than Aperture.

September 25 2006 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alfeo

Most of the features we have begged for...

http://www.apple.com/aperture/newfeatures/

YES! YES! YES!

September 25 2006 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Holger

You just TUAWed MacNotes.de ;-)

September 25 2006 at 12:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dburney

Cool - I'm glad I was wrong about the .5 release being a freebie. I might have to check it out now, never really thougt I'd need, but iPhoto only does so much, and Photoshop is overkill for some simple photography needs.

September 25 2006 at 12:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eriksson

They don't need a fucking event to release new MBP's... they'll just update the store with them tomorrow!

September 25 2006 at 12:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply