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Trick Aperture into supporting .dng files from unsupported cameras
Authored by: allanmarcus on Oct 30, '06 11:49:48AM
Not to demean this post, but this is an old trick. I wasn't the first to figure it out, but I did post a tutorial at

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1732797#1732797

for the Maxxum 5D. Also, you aren't tricking Aperture, you are tricking the OS.

Also, you don't need to duplicate the entry. You can just a <key><string> line above the main <key> line to create an alias to your camera. this is how Aple can support multiple identical cameras (The Maxxum 5D is a the Dynux 5D in Europe).

-Allan

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Trick Aperture into supporting .dng files from unsupported cameras
Authored by: conner on Oct 31, '06 09:04:15AM

Allan, not to demean your response to the parent post, but I read the link that you posted and noticed the following:

1) Your hint was incomplete and did not work until amended.

2) When someone using a camera other than a Minolta Maxxum 5D asked for help you basically blew them off with "start another thread"

3) Part of the parent poster's hint was about how to find the correct camera model name so that they could solve the problem on a camera other than your beloved Minolta Maxxum 5D -- which is *not*, by the way, in any way a model related to the Leica D-Lux 3 that the parent poster is discussing.


I suggest you either:

1) Write an accurate article about how to carry out this hack with for different cameras, including how to find the camera model string that Apple uses.

or

2) Refrain from saying "this is old news" and then linking to a a discussion containing your erroneous how-to which does not solve the same problem that the parent attempts to solve and which contains a message in which you tell another user to "go away" when they ask how to solve the problem that the parent *is* trying to solve.

Thank You



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Trick Aperture into supporting .dng files from unsupported cameras
Authored by: Steve Hoge on Jul 17, '07 10:06:22PM

I've used this same technique to add .DNG support for the relatively recent Panasonic-DMC-FZ8. For these purposes, the FZ8 can also use an "alias" entry to the the Panasonic-DMC-LC1 plist parameters.



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