Now it’s the turn of the Photographers

[Andrew Richards]

Wow, now we only need to hear the exact same list of grievances from the Logic guys and we’ll have a trifecta.

From the article:

“Writing for Photofocus, Scott Bourne notes that while he is intending to buy a MacBook Pro with Retina display he has a number of concerns.”

That’ll show ’em. I’ll buy it, but I’m also going to write a sternly worded letter about it!

Best,
Andy

[Craig Seeman]

It looks like MacrworldUK no longer has “professional” writers.
I can’t believe that’s the writing of a professional photographer. It looks like a Twitter feed cut and paste from a wannabe.

[Alan Okey]

Do any pros even use Aperture? Everyone I know switched to (or started with) Lightroom years ago…

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] “I can’t believe that’s the writing of a professional photographer. It looks like a Twitter feed cut and paste from a wannabe.”

The original article is here. Shame on them for not including a link in the piece.

[Andrew Richards]

[Gary Huff] “Shame on them for not including a link in the piece.”

Shame indeed! I assumed it must be a print-only piece with no link present. Bad form, MarcWorld!

Best,
Andy

[Craig Seeman]

Better but I think there’s a few wrong assumptions. I won’t debate Aperture but the MBPr is decisively targeted towards Pros with each feature set (and price).

While there’s compelling arguments for Lightroom over Aperture, that the latter links to iPhoto’s library just isn’t one of them.

[Mark Bein]

Thank you. Hilarious!

So Apple delivers the best laptop for a photo guy there has ever been-
a 5 (five) Megapixel IPS Screen laptop.

Scott Bourne:
“Here’s the writing on the wall. Aperture’s library now fully integrates with iPhoto’s library.
Does that ring a bell with anyone but me? iPhoto is a purely consumer product.”

Is that all he’s got?
What’s wrong with that?

[Kevin Patrick]

Interesting article. In it, Scott Bourne states that as of today he’s moving himself and his staff to Adobe Lightroom 4. His reasons seem odd. The writing on the wall (as he puts it) is the integration with iPhoto’s database. I’m not sure why that’s an issue. In fact, it seems to at least make sense that both apps can access the same database, if you need it.

He states this is like the Final Cut Pro debacle. This doesn’t seem anything like it. Apple didn’t just kill off Aperture and replace with a completely new Photo application that uses a completely new methodology along with the inability to open any previous Aperture libraries. (as was the case with FCP) I think making this statement is rather (if not very) misleading.

Apple just released an upgrade to Aperture, version 3.3, not a major release. They added some features, such as painting in white balance. This was new for LR4. In fact, many of the new features Adobe highlights in LR4 were either already in Aperture or were added to the new v3.3 release.

New LR4 Features:
Highlight/Shadow Recovery (Aperture enhanced this existing feature in 3.3)
Photo Book Creation (Already in Aperture 3.x)
Location Based Organization (Already in Aperture 3.x)
Chromatic Aberration (Aperture 3.x)
Extended Video Support (Already in Aperture 3.x)
White Balance Brush (Aperture just added in 3.3)
Emailing Photos (Already in Aperture 3.x)
Online Sharing (Already in Aperture 3.x)

What LR4 Does Not Have:
Retina Display Support: Added in Aperture 3.3
Photo Stream: Support of this is better in Aperture than iPhoto.
Managed Libraries: LR4 is referenced only, Aperture does both as well as mixed.
Faces: Like it or not, it there and it works.
Apple TV: If you use it, Aperture supports it.

It’s odd to listen to a Pro Photo person, who is also an Apple user (he notes that he does not want to move to Windows) knock what appears to be a good Apple product. It’s why I choose Aperture over LR. I’m not an expert on either of the applications. But it wasn’t hard for me to figure out which one to use and why. If you don’t know anything about either one and simply read Scott’s article, you’d probably take his advice and avoid Aperture. Which is too bad, because Aperture is a great product.

[Gary Huff]

To be fair, Retina and AppleTV support is dependent on Apple. Do we even know how much of a heads up Adobe got for Retina-display support and does Apple even provide the capability for Adobe to add AppleTV support to Lightroom?

[John Davidson]

As usual, the best came from the comments section:

“Stop blaming the tools for not developing as a photographer.”

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.