At last having waited for months and months, Apple have today announced and released Aperture 3.0 with full 64bit support. This is fantastic news for us photographers on the Mac system.
Please visit, http://www.apple.com/aperture/ for more information.
In days gone by i stored 100’s of negatives and slides in files as thick as a house brick, these took up space and loved dust, not to mention how poorly i catalogued them! Oh i love the digital age! But wait, i have the same storage problem, now completely reliant on the reliability of my far eastern friends who make most of the worlds hard drives.
Having suffered a serious hard drive failure several years ago in which i lost 100’s of images i swore i would never do it again, as such i have become a “backup fanatic!” So where did i go from here…
Curly Cables Everywhere!
Internal Drive – Backup to External Drive (Firewire)
RAID 1 2 Internal Drives – Backup to External 1 TB Drive (Firewire)
Fed up with the now increasing amount of My Books on my shelf…..
I now have…
1 Internal 1 TB Samsung Drive – Backuped up to an External 500GB Firewire Drive.
And so that i can sleep at night a NetGear ReadyNAS Duo Network Attached Strorage System 500 GB Mirrored in X-Raid.
The Duo is attached to a small home network, that supplies music and video on demand to my PS3 and my children’s computers. With a gigabit ethernet connection and jumbo frame support i can transfer around 24 MB/s from my MacPro to the Duo via a NetGear GS108T switch.
I use Aperture 2 on my Mac and at present it wont support backup the library to a NAS or for that matter any network drive, a real pain in the rear. So i have to mainly copy the library across.
The Duo is cheap really cheap for what it is, it has its own web,ftp itunes server and can be remotely operated as well, including shutdown and start up times, and a forum of 1000’s of users have developed other software that you can install on the device.
Bottom line, its cheap, standalone and quick, you cannot go wrong for its storage and backup capabilities.
I bought mine from Broadbandbuyer and at present they come with a free hard drive!
More info from NETGEAR
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My wife and I enjoying a short break in London, at the IceBar where the walls are made of solid blocks of ice from Norway. Even the cups are made of ice!
My son enjoying the snow!
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Well August the 28th came and went and the new OS from Apple arrived, Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 and with it 64bit software finally arrived on the Mac System. The visual improvments seem very minor, but the engine is new and it shows. Performance of Apple applications running on my MacPro has increased, shorter loading times, better graphics support. My images seem to load “snappier” in Aperture 2.1.4 and image adjustments dont seem to lag.
All good news…EXCEPT
Now starts the usual Nikon farce of none compatibility, after months and months of having access to the SDK and early code, NONE, NONE i’ll say again NONE of there applications work under OSX 10.6
OK so there is a cost to Nikon to update the software, but it should only be minor, no wait, taking a look at some of the installer files you can see that many of the framework files need putting in a museum, even with Rossetta installed you’ll still run into problems as Nikons ancient frameworks try to keep up with modem computing power.
What on earth goes on at Nikon Software Development, were they all playing crazy golf when the both Microsoft and Apple announced new OS!
For the time being MAC users have Bibble Pro, Aperture, CS4 and some other applications to render there NEF files, but alas none seem to have the image quality of Capture NX IMHO
Bibble Pro 5 on the other hand will. You can see that at www.bibblelabs.com
For users of Camera Control Pro your stuck as well, so some kind sole with an equal amount of frustration has developed his own software, and they had now trouble getting it to work under Snow Leopard, heres the link to save your sanity www.sofortbildapp.com
So Nikon what on earth are you up to Canon’s software works, shareware works, freeware works, donation ware works, yet a multi national corportation such as yourself with links to some major software players still havent’t got there act together!
So to sum up great great cameras, but not much good if the software that manipulates to files from those great cameras is to be honest terribly supported and is direction mis guided.
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