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Comment by geerlingguy

2 days ago

I still miss Aperture. Photos is a far cry still, many years later.

Lightroom never matched Aperture's organizational abilities for libraries with tens of thousands of RAW photos.

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apgwoz  2 days ago

I’ve been waiting to see what happens with Photomator, and the fact that it’s not being included in anyway here makes me think it might not survive? Either that, or it’s gonna be heavily integrated into Photos…

  • herrherrmann  2 days ago

    I was also surprised to not see Photomator included. Wouldn’t it perfectly complement the lineup? I hadn’t thought of such a pessimistic interpretation, but now I’m worried as well …

    • apgwoz  2 days ago

      I think Apple killed Aperture primarily because it was confusing to have iPhoto and Aperture with largely overlapping workflows. Aperture had the loupe view, and side by side comparison stuff, saved color grading tools (I think?), sure, but it wasn’t differentiated enough to justify a Pro designation. I think it makes more sense for Photomator features to be absorbed into Photos… and maybe Photos gets some new Pixelmator integrations if you have it, for quick touch ups / enhancement type things.

      On the other hand, Final Cut / iMovie will exist side by side because it’s truly a basic vs Pro situation.

      Not a product manager at Apple, of course, but this is what logically seems to make sense.

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squidsoup  1 day ago

Frustrating that Photos is really not suitable for anything other than editing snaps. I'd love to ditch Adobe, but Darktable doesn't support Fuji raws, and there really aren't that many great commercial alternatives to Lightroom that don't also have a subscription model.

  • trop  1 day ago

    > but Darktable doesn't support Fuji raws

    darktable has supported Fuji raws since 2014! It currently supports the classic "uncompressed" RAFs, as well as the newfangled "lossless" (compressed) RAFs. I do not believe that it supports the "compressed" (lossy) format. So setting "recording type" appropriately on your camera is necessary.

    I'm curious where the notion comes from that there is no support for Fujifilm RAF files, as I see this in a cousin comment as well.

Arubis  1 day ago

Apple dropping Aperture right after I landed stateside was enough to knock me out of the photography hobby entirely.