Update for any Apple computer users out there. Aperture 3 is out today. It looks pretty cool. Here’s my take.

Video:
It does video, and it looks like it does video very well. Finally you can work both stills and video in one great app.

Adjustment Brushes:
The new brushes feature looks wonderful. I’m excited to give it a try. This was the main reason I started using Lightroom about a year ago. I needed (Wanted) non destructive localized adjustments, now we have it in aperture and it looks great!

Book Plugins:
If you are a wedding shooter, you now have a very wonderful way to layout your books from companies like Leather Craftsman, or GraphiStudio and others. This will be huge for anyone who makes these high end books for their customers.

Slideshows:
The new slideshows look really good. Easily add video and stills, titles and motion. Plus you have multitrack audio. This could make for some amazing slideshows.

Adjustment Presets:
These will be very useful, in the last version you had to find an image you used some settings on and copy and paste them to your new file.

naturally there is much more. These are some of the features that caught my eye. Will I switch back to Aperture? I can’t say at this point. I have always preferred aperture to lightroom for portraits, it’s retouching tools have always been far superior to lightroom. But I am pretty entrenched in lightroom now, and I’m wondering what lightroom 3 will have in the final release. But even if it’s just for the great slideshow and book layouts I’d say it’s worth it to have.

Hello again everyone. I think I’ve been able to fix the blog problems and even make it a little better. Please post your comments, let’s make sure it actually works

Canon has announced the 7D. My first thought was “Didn’t they just release the 5D Mark II?” But apparently the 7D isn’t above the 5D it’s more in line with the D300 from Nikon as far as price goes. $1699.00. This camera is set to ship in October to the general populous. Canon hasn’t had a camera exactly in this market before and this camera has some pretty nice specs. 18 Megapixels, 1080p full HD video, and 8 frames per second. I’m looking forward to seeing how this camera actually works in the world. I bet it’ll be stellar. Also for Canon shooters this camera is placed at a point more attainable than the 5D. If you have been hoping for a 5D but just couldn’t spend that much this may be the perfect camera for you.

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