Apple supports new high-end compact cameras

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Apple now supports raw records as of Olympus' E-PL1 camera.

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Apple recently school software so as to lets iPhoto and Aperture grip raw photos as of a variety of new compact, higher-end cameras as of more supposed a few manufacturers.

Camera makers are racing to compete in a new marketplace pioneered by Micro Four Thirds heavy as of Olympus and Panasonic so as to characteristic little camera crash but too interchangeable lenses. The Apple update adds hold up for Olympus' newer E-PL1 replica and Panasonic's Lumix DMC-G10 and G2 heavy in petroleum range.

Others are receiving eager on the marketplace too, and Apple supports not any as well: Samsung's NX10 and Sony's NEX-5 and NEX-3. Each of as,at the same occasion as transfer has its own incompatible lens rise better by means of the Micro Four Thirds models.

Also supported in the update is Sony's recently free lower-end Alpha A390 SLR, a additional customary design.

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Apple now supports raw images as of a host of new smaller cameras.

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Raw photos, in use directly as of camera image sensors with no in-camera processing, present better suppleness and excellence supposed JPEGs. But contain need labor on the customer's fraction to convert eager on additional suitable formats for posting online, sharing by means of friends, and simple viewing on a diversity of computers. And software decide have to labor to wait on top of the unending parade of inappropriately raw formats so as to arrive at by means of destination by means of new camera models.

One nice feature of shooting raw: newer software can frequently wring additional excellence out of older files, for instance offering improved color or inferior noise supposed now obtainable at the occasion a being quick the picture.

Check Apple's site for the filled catalog of Apple-supported raw formats.

Correction, 3:05 p.m. PDT: This tale originally misstated the day of the software's release. It was free August 2.

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