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Apple at PhotoPlus Expo 07 - Joe Schorr Interview

Inside Aperture Podcast 22

10/26/2007

Apple Senior Product Manager, Joe Schorr, sits down with Derrick Story on the last day of the 2007 PhotoPlus Expo show in New York City. Joe discusses the growing interest in Aperture's custom books, integration with Keynote for DVD authoring, and the growing popularity of the application among big time photographers.

The Apple booth at PhotoPlus Expo 07 in NYC, photographed by Derrick Story.

Robust activity at the PhotoPlus show was a visual example of the increased interest in Aperture. Plus I think there was a deeper understanding of photo management applications in general. Apple had consistently good turnouts for the on-floor presentations, and lots of engaged discussions in the individual pods.

(Inside Aperture, Oct. 26, 2007: 15 minutes, 45 seconds)

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RAW support
2008-02-07 10:18:30 Bobcote [Reply | View]

Looks like Apple is moving away from Aperture given that they it has been 4 months since Nikon D3 and D300 have been released and not RAW capability in Aperture for either of these cameras and the best they can say is - it takes a while to make these updates. Already in Lightroom! What gives?

Ask when version 2.0 is coming next time you see him
2007-11-08 09:18:32 rolph [Reply | View]

I would like a comment from Joe Schorr when Aperture 2.0 is coming instead of hearing how great other companies are in making export functions.

We have to make sure that Scott Kelby stops using Lightroom and starts using Aperture. But as this movie shows he also is waiting for version 2.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9Vhufg_0U

Ask about RAW support for new cameras
2007-11-02 08:54:24 GM4JJJ [Reply | View]

Rather than telling us all how wonderful the export plug-ins are, I'd rather hear something positive about Apple's plans to support the latest DSLR camera's RAW format. This is what is holding back photographers from using Aperture - no news from Apple when they are going to support their new camera. I appreciate that updates to the RAW file types supported have been generally been issued along with Mac OS updates, though at least ones this was a stand-alone update.

So are Apple going to speed up this process and are they going to issue RAW support updates to 10.4 users?

Inside Aperture Page
2007-11-02 04:44:18 carolmccarthy [Reply | View]

I thought it odd that on the page with the story and Inside Aperture podcast with Joe Schorr, there would be and ad for PC spyware scanning software for Windows. And then another Windows only ad. As Aperture and, Joe Schorr, for that matter are both exclusively Apple, why on earth would these ads appear on this particular page?

Just Curious.

books
2007-10-27 21:37:01 Nick.Nieto [Reply | View]

Great podcast... I would be curious if inside aperture could show off some of the aperture books they talked about to get an idea on how customizable the books really are.