using Aperture with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

[Crissl]

Hi at all,

I cannot find the raw.plist under Leopard - anyone already working with Leopard + Aperture + R-D1?

Thanks
Crissl

 

[nestacio]

I work with Aperture + Leopard which works perfectly with my Canon 5D (so I know it is processing raw files correctly under Leopard); however I use ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) to process .erf files from my RD1.

I don't believe Aperture ever had RD1 compatibility - I could be wrong.

 

[Crissl]

You are right, Aperture never had R-D1 compatibility. But by changing the raw.plist under 10.4 it was possible - seems not to work under 10.5 cannot find this file.
regards
Crissl

 

[triplefinger]

interested to know the outcome of this!

 

[nestacio]

I found the solution. Raw.plist has moved in Leopard 10.5 to here:

/System » Library » CoreServices » RawCamera.bundle » Contents » Resources/

Apparently Leopard also requires you to run the following command in Terminal which will give you an additional bit of info you need to plug into the Rawcamera.bundle file:

openssl dgst -sha1 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/Raw.plist

I never knew this type of modification to Aperture was possible 🙂 thank you for bringing it up. Note that I have not tried it yet, I don't have a plist editor and need to experiment further on my end as well.

The full set of instructions is here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028133430814

Best,
Neil

 

[triplefinger]

read the comment, apparently this was an unsuccessful test.

 

[dacaccia]

Camera Raw is good - but (unfortunately) Capture One LE is better in quality. Just compare. The handling of the program (production of "settings" folder in every photo folder) is annoying, but the quality of the RAW converting is worth it - at my opinion. (This holds for the M8 DNGs - but I suppose also for other generic RAWs.)

Cheers
dacaccia

 

[0bli0]

woohoo - i solved it!!!!! you have to change the name of the camera from 'EPSON-R-D1' to 'Epson R-D1' and then update the hash.

rd1 files are once again working in aperture!

 

[winskj]

what's the hash

what's the hash

Do you mind posting the snippet that you actually put into raw.plist?

I have gone through the instructions, but I am not sure what to put in for the XML.

Thanks very much.

Jon

 

[photorat]

I'd love to know how to open and edit erf files in Aperture (in OX 10.4). Do you not have to convert to .dng first? If so, what is the advantage over epson's own converter (to .jpg)?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

J

 

[0bli0]

here are answers to questions regarding Leopard. i'm not at either of my Macs at the moment (or until i return from a trip) so i can't paste the snippet until i return.

the instructions listed above almost work but you need to change the case.

first, find the raw.plist in the rawcamera.bundle /System » Library » CoreServices » RawCamera.bundle » Contents » Resources/

what i did is copy the raw item for the D-70s and then renamed it to Epson R-D1
note that this has changed from 10.4 where everything needs to be in all caps.

it's important that you set the permissions for raw.bundle otherwise you can't save the raw.plist

once the raw.plist is saved, run the following command in terminal:
openssl dgst -sha1 /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/Raw.plist

the resulting data key must be pasted into CodeResources. paste it at the top, not the bottom. the key length is exactly the same.

once that was completed (and i properly had the case in th eraw.plist) the red 'unsupported image' screen was instantly replaced by my image. i didnt need to reboot.

 

[0bli0]

yes .erf files must be converted to .DNG using the DNG converter