Aperture 1.2 at Photokina?

The Apple booth is located near where Adobe, Corel and all are situated, so it really does look as though Aperture is the main reason they are attending.

On the other hand, there is a consumer aspect to this show, and one of the other big nearby exhibitors will be Nokia, so iPhone True Believers can carry on as usual with their silliness right up until the event.

It is the long awaited Apple DSLR, 25MP full frame with an interchangeable Nikon / Canon mount. :D

It is the long awaited Apple DSLR, 25MP full frame with an interchangeable Nikon / Canon mount. :D

and its going be white!!!! and black...

I don't see Apple getting into the photography space, at least in terms of releasing their own camera, but I do think that it is very likely we will see an update to Aperture. For a show of this caliber though (since many regard it as "the show" for the photography industry), you'd think and hope Apple has something fairly significant up their sleeves, or why else bother? Along these lines, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Aperture 2.0, rather than just Aperture 1.2. :cool:

I don't see Apple getting into the photography space, at least in terms of releasing their own camera, but I do think that it is very likely we will see an update to Aperture. For a show of this caliber though (since many regard it as "the show" for the photography industry), you'd think and hope Apple has something fairly significant up their sleeves, or why else bother? Along these lines, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Aperture 2.0, rather than just Aperture 1.2. :cool:

Agreed. Aperture got some rough reviews when it was released... I wouldn't be surprised if they went to 2.0 just for marketing reasons-- give the impression that it's a whole new generation and a step ahead of Adobe.

Hope I don't have to buy it all over again if it goes 2.0.

Adobe is pushing their new program which is currently in beta, Lightroom, (I personally hate it, Aperture is much better) so it would come as no surprise if Apple released an update of Aperture.

I think it will be 1.2 rather than 2.0....yes, it is just not a full version update, but much of the bad press of 1.0 has been fixed (or at least alleviated) with 1.1. I hope they bring on another batch of enhancements for 1.2 so that they can make this version of the professional grade that Apple seems to hype it as.

Also, with 1.1 they actually gave back money to buyers of 1.0...they are not about to charge them again right now. It will be a little while longer before that happens.

I think it will be 1.2 rather than 2.0....yes, it is just not a full version update, but much of the bad press of 1.0 has been fixed (or at least alleviated) with 1.1. I hope they bring on another batch of enhancements for 1.2 so that they can make this version of the professional grade that Apple seems to hype it as.

Also, with 1.1 they actually gave back money to buyers of 1.0...they are not about to charge them again right now. It will be a little while longer before that happens.

...good. I hope you are correct.

Aperture does need an update, badly. It is still suffering from the major misfire of v1.0. Many photographers either tried it or heard from others about it...and panned it for its mediocre RAW processing and irritating database structure. Now that the RAW issues are aleviated it still has some teething issues. The lack of a dynamic database (like iView MP) and hardware requirements. I'm currently on the fence. I like iView MP as a DAM, lightroom as a RAW processor (but can't wait for batch cropping), and PS as a final editor. If Aperture could do what LR and iView do, then I'd buy it. Otherwise I have until January to use LR for free and will probably buy iView if it looks like Aperture is still using its goofy db system.

Or....could Apple be there to show off Photoshop running in UB? If anyone in the industry could get Adobe to hurry up its Steve Jobs. You know he wants PS to run natively on the Intel Macs. Adobe stands to get a huge windfall too as all the Intel Mac users upgrade just for speed. I know Adobe has said, 2007...but it could happen.