Ergos Posted October 15, 2007 Share #21 Posted October 15, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Ok Eoin, I will stick to the filter solution Thanks, Filippo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Hi Ergos, Take a look here M8 & Apple Aperture resource info. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Eoin Posted October 15, 2007 Author Share #22 Posted October 15, 2007 Congratulations Eoin for your work....!I have done everything as you say.... but how can I select each profile to use? Using a1 is very easy... but not so obvius in aperture. Thanks in advance...! Antinio, you may have missed the point I made in my first post in this thread where I said "if you look in the upper window of PlistEdit Pro you'll see an entry for Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera, you'll notice it's class is set to string and it's value is Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera P Low Sat. What this is doing is pointing the core image support to read the profile Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera P Low Sat every time it sees an M8 file. If you wish to use another profile all you need to do is edit this value to the name of the profile you wish to use. All I do is double click to highlight the profile name in the property list column and copy it then double click to highlight the value I wish to change and paste it. The save the raw.plist and fire up Aperture and away you go with the new profile." I was refering to the screen shot of my raw.plist, If you still don't understand it let me know and I'll walk you through it. You can only have one profile live at a time in aperture, you'll need to hack the raw.plist every time you wish to change the profile and restart aperture. I suggest you try each of the profiles and find one that suits you and stick with that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhagen456 Posted October 17, 2007 Share #23 Posted October 17, 2007 Thanks, Eoin for your answer. I understand right now......... I am spaniard and my english is so bad like big is my admiration for your work! Thanks again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peggers Posted October 19, 2007 Share #24 Posted October 19, 2007 Well first can I say a big thank you to Eoin! What a star. I don't know which profiles everyone prefers - for me it was the D200 - skin tones just looked good and I'm a fan of a slightly desaturated look. However, when pulling out deep shadows or highly under-exposed shots I have been seeing a green tint to my shots - moving back to the Leica M8 profile fixed this. Just something to bear in mind. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted October 20, 2007 Author Share #25 Posted October 20, 2007 I happen to like the D200 as well, punching up the colours to taste. If your using any of the other profiles it's best to white balance the image first. I think there is a bug in aperture in this respect. I have created saved presets for white balance such as daylight, shadow and so on setting the K temperature and tint. I just apply these or use the pick tool to select an area which best matches. I tend to use raw data or low sat profiles most of the time however and my white bal presets have adjusted tints to remove any hues. The auto levels RGB button bottom RHS of the main histogram can give some interesting effects with these profiles, almost like mild cross processing. Again make use of presets, they are very handy in all the various tools. It will be interesting to see if OS X Leopard will have the corrected M8 profile to match the newer matrix values from the firmware updates. Or if apple just copied in the core image support from tiger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
palker Posted November 20, 2007 Share #26 Posted November 20, 2007 It will be interesting to see if OS X Leopard will have the corrected M8 profile to match the newer matrix values from the firmware updates. Or if apple just copied in the core image support from tiger. Hi, I realise it is "early days", but have you examined the new raw.plist for the M8? I was told it is hiding in: /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/Raw.plist, a nice way to prevent it showing up in the finder as part of the RawCamera package I was using your slightly saturated setting, and find the new ones to be quite good. Thanks for any feedback, Phil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share #27 Posted November 20, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Ahh I'd forgotten to post about Leopard here. Yes Apple have made some improvements to core image support and they have in effect fixed the M8 profile in such a way that it can read (I presume) the firmware version and apply either of the 2 matrixes it has in the profile. I've only upgraded to Leopard last Friday evening and Aperture seems to be running fine. I'm using their new improved profile and I'm happy with the results. Some things to note, Apple have added matrix values for both the M8's old and new colour matrix values. They have also added more settings in the profile which seem to improve overall image quality inside of Aperture. The have also changed the naming of the camera from Leica Camera AG-M8 Digital Camera to just Leica M8 Digital Camera so if you wish to continue to use old profiles your pointing string should be amended as such. My only complaint at the moment is Choma noise seems more evident in metallic type objects than before, you may need to adjust the choma blur in the raw settings (top adjustment panel) and reduce or eliminate the initial sharpening settings to get better final sharpening. Just my opinion. When I get a chance I'll update the other (old) profiles with the new added settings and see what it does but for the moment I'm happy with the results I'm getting from the stock profile (with the tweak in raw settings I've mentioned). I'm well and truly redundant now, fair play to Apple, it's only taken a year but we finally have good M8 support in Aperture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted November 20, 2007 Share #28 Posted November 20, 2007 Eoin, Just curious, are you running Aperture version 1.5.6? Larry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share #29 Posted November 20, 2007 Hi Larry, Yes I'm running 1.5.6. I got a new MBP which had tiger on it, copied everything from my older MBP to the new one and then removed the HDD from the new MBP and replaced it with the Hatchai 7K 160gb from my old MBP (much faster disk IMO than apples 7K HDD) and did a fresh install of Tiger, Apps and update of everything and copied across all data . Then when I got my Leopard update disks from Apple I just updated everything and everything has been perfect, no issues that seem widely reported. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted November 20, 2007 Share #30 Posted November 20, 2007 Eoin, It's been very smooth for me, too. And the latest version of Aperture is very responsive. Thanks, Larry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
palker Posted November 20, 2007 Share #31 Posted November 20, 2007 Yes, I also upgraded at the weekend, looks good and Aperture with the M8 does looks better, my only gripe is that SuperDuper is not yet Leopard so no back-up!!! I will wait till next weekend and go with Carbon Copy Cloner if it still isn't compatible. I wonder if the 10.5.1 upgrade did fix anything useful, the release notes were too much for me to understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted November 21, 2007 Share #32 Posted November 21, 2007 It is great to hear that Aperture support for the M8 is improved with Leopard. My question was if updating to Leapord would cause issues with Photoshop since that is still not fully supported I think. Is any one usign both Aperture and Photoshop under Leopard? Thank you, Arif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoin Posted November 21, 2007 Author Share #33 Posted November 21, 2007 Arif, AFIK if you upgrade to Leopard you'll also need to update CS3 with patch 10.0.1. I downloaded the CS3 Extended Trial version today and patched it from 10.0 to 10.0.1 and everything seems to be working as normal. Aperture functions as normal with CS3 set as the external editor and round trips of the images to and from each of the applications functions as before. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted November 22, 2007 Share #34 Posted November 22, 2007 Thanks Eoin, That is a relief since that was the only thing keeping me away from Leopard at this time. Thanks again for your wonderul help with Aperture in the past. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving holiday, Arif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.