Sorry Jonathan you are way off target on this - unfortunately.
I would refer people with this concern - support for several new cameras including the G9, Alpha 700, D3, D300 and 1DsIII to mention just some - to the thread on this site under the Aperture heading re: D300 etc..
Not to bore on too much about it but when I visited the "Aperture Users' Professional Network"
to ask about this and hoped to bring it to the attention of Apple people whom one might hope would relate to a forum with that name a bunch of 'fanboys' told me that:
a) nobody should buy a new model until Apple supported it,
Apple would do this when they were good and ready and not before - but one should be grateful
c) Nobody needed RAW because the writer himself didn't use it and he made his living from photography !
d) that I was a 'spoiled rich kid' to be able to afford a new model camera.
It was also explained that there were 'technical problems' about updating such support - as if as a customer that was relevant to me.
I have used Aperture for 2 years and much prefer it to Lightroom but I have no option - as will be the case of users of several other models - but to change. Especially so as there appeared to be no news in the Steve Jobs Show yesterday to indicate progress for Aperture - at least not that I have read so far.
I guess downloading movies is much more profitable than returning the loyalty of Aperture users who were assured in the early days that this programme would be seriously promoted as Mr Jobs himself was a very serous photographer and was putting personal backing behind it - silly us.
Apologies for the rant but it is very frustrating - and it makes me feel a little better at least.
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My only problem with the rant is it seems to be in the wrong direction ... why aren't we screaming at the camera makers for not standardizing on a RAW format. Why should Adobe and Apple have to reverse engineer 100's of RAW formats, and change their software every time a new camera is introduced. Why do camera makers insist on such proprietary control, even to the point of encrypting some of the data? Why are they trying to force everyone to use their RAW processing software?
It seems that if we can't get everyone to agree on a format, by now we should have a "plug-in" approach to RAW processing. You buy your camera, you place the manufacturer supplied plug-in into any program you want such as Aperture, ACR, or Lightroom, and your done.
I personally think the camera manufacturers deserve 100% of the blame here.