will Aperture EVER add D-Lux2 RAW support?

disconnekt · March 14, 2007

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At least they added Digilux 3, but I've been waiting a loooooooong time for D-Lux 2 support and I'm starting to lose hope.... will I have to switch to Lightroom? Then I would have to give up the .Mac support that I use to maintain an online photo album. :-(

March 14, 2007

Hi disconnekt,

Take a look here will Aperture EVER add D-Lux2 RAW support?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!

Laki · March 14, 2007

At least they added Digilux 3, but I've been waiting a loooooooong time for D-Lux 2 support and I'm starting to lose hope.... will I have to switch to Lightroom? Then I would have to give up the .Mac support that I use to maintain an online photo album. :-(

did you ask the aperture support? just a suggestion...

Eoin · March 14, 2007

Again the support is missing for this camera and the Panasonic DMC LX2.

The simple work around is again pass the raws through Adobe DNG converter but the parameters must be:

Jpeg Preview = Full size

Compression = Not Checked

Preserve raw image = Checked

Don't embed original = Unchecked.

You'll need to hack the raw.plist as with the M8 hack, I'm not sure what the Leica D-Lux-3 string is but I can get that very easy if you send me a raw file.

I use the DMC-LX2 and the entry is as follows;

<key>Panasonic-DMC-LX2</key>

<dict>

<key>black</key>

<key>blamt</key>

<key>cbrad</key>

<key>esein</key>

<key>esein_0</key>

<key>eseth</key>

<key>eseth_0</key>

<key>esint</key>

<key>esint_0</key>

<key>gresc</key>

<key>gresc_0</key>

<array>

</array>

<array>

</array>

<key>noten</key>

<array>

</array>

<key>sdamt</key>

<key>white</key>

</dict>

This works very well, however you'll need to white balance the shot to stop blues shifting towards violet. Other than that there is no other way to use the D-Lux-3 / LX2 within Aperture.

Luis Cruz · March 15, 2007

Hi Eoin!

Dam you are good!

I read your treads tonight about the M8 hack and is impressive! I have no idea how you figure that out...

I had been trying to find a hack to use my D-Lux 3 with aperture (hope to get a M8 some day!!) so far no luck. I upload it a raw photo from my camera in this link:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/T2dkVWRqQzdvQnMwTVE9PQ

I would be so stoke if you can help me out finding the right String to use for the D-lux 3!

Im going to try using the M8 Hack right now (just finish downloading the split edit program) and see what happend...

Thanks a lot!

-L

Eoin · March 15, 2007

Luis,

Just for you here is the D-Lux-3 strings :D

If you've read the other threads for the M8 you'll possibly understand what I'm about to say...

The Raw.plist is a protected file, you'll need to navigate to it at System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/ Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Raw.plist

If you right click or cmd click the file and select "get info" you'll see ownership and permissions and details below that. Click on the triangle beside details and unlock the owner field. You may have to type in your password. Change the owner to your username and change the access to read and write. Then go back up to "you can" and change to read and write. While your here you can change the open with to what ever program you use to edit plists with. I use PlistEdit Pro Fat Cat Software - PlistEdit Pro You can now close this window.

Open the raw.plist in the editor and go to the bottom window in PlistEdit Pro. As you scroll down through the entries you'll notice most entries start with a <key> CAMERA NAME and end with </dict> The code I have posted below should be pasted 1 line below any </dict> entry. Save the file and restart aperture. Convert the Raws using Adobe DNG converter with the following options...

Jpeg Preview = Full size

Compression = Not Checked

Preserve raw image = Checked

Don't embed original = Unchecked.

And you should be set,

Here is the file you sent me with no adjustments or sharpening just resized and sRGB'd

<key>LEICA-D-LUX 3</key>

<dict>

<key>black</key>

<key>blamt</key>

<key>cbrad</key>

<key>esein</key>

<key>esein_0</key>

<key>eseth</key>

<key>eseth_0</key>

<key>esint</key>

<key>esint_0</key>

<key>gresc</key>

<key>gresc_0</key>

<array>

</array>

<array>

</array>

<key>noten</key>

<array>

</array>

<key>sdamt</key>

<key>white</key>

</dict>

Luis Cruz · March 15, 2007

Thanks a lot Eoin! I try the M8 hack last night and it worked too... (just chosing the Nikon camera as a String for it)

Im sure there are tons of people with D-Lux 3 that will like to use Aperture to process their raw photos and will benefit from this! My hopes were really low on Apple adding the D-Lux camera to their list since is not really an SLR...

Shit I guess Im going to be late for work today playing with this hack!!

Quick question, now that I have a plist created should I just double click were the Nikon String is and copy paste the hack on the bottom window?

That's the only part Im a bit confuse on!

Man, thanks again!! Im so stoke...

Eoin · March 15, 2007

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Louis,

I'd suggest you click on the name of the profile you've created in the upper window and click Delete. Save the raw.plist.

You've created a profile that does not really suit the Panasonic LX2 or Leica D-Lux 3.

We need to use the profile I've given here in my post with your image, just above your image, the colours are much better with this one. In my first post the Control strings are for the Panasonic DMC-LX2 which won't work for the leica because of the embedded camera name.

You need to highlight the string I've given you starting with <key> and ending with </dict> and copy this to your clipboard Command+C

Then go to the lower window of PlistEdit Pro which already has the raw.plist file open, find any camera profile and scroll down through it till you see </dict> click just after this and press enter to give you a new line then press the tab key to move the cursor over. Then press Command+V to paste the control strings for the DMC-LX2 into the raw.plist.

Just make sure you have no blank (empty) lines and the text is exactly as I have given it. Then save your raw.plist and you should be good to go.

Luis Cruz · March 15, 2007

Thanks!

That works great!! the only thing I notice once I import the dng file is that under the Raw fine tuning panel the Auto Noise Compensation option is gray out and I don't know why...

I remember been able to turn that on or off wen I was using the M8 String... any way Im really gratefull, thatnks to you I will be able to use Aperture with my D-lux 3 and Im having a great day!!

-L

Eoin · March 15, 2007

Luis,

I never noticed the grayed out setting for noise reduction. I'll look in to it over the weekend when I get some quiet time, It's St Patricks on Saturday and Dublin should be buzzing all weekend. I'm not promising I'll have the answer though.

Luis Cruz · March 16, 2007

Thanks Eoin!

Have a great St. Patricks weekend:D

The hack works great!

-L

disconnekt · March 16, 2007

Yes, to the first person who replied to this post—I did send feedback to Apple begging for DL2 support. Thanks very much to Eoin for the DNG hack, but I've decided not to go this route at the moment, since I want to keep my workflow as it is (I currently import both the unrecognized RAW file and the accompanying JPG). I don't fancy going through all my hundreds of pics to convert them, and to have to convert the new pics every time I import.

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