Runs absolutely fine… even with 512 MB RAM. So my 4 year old desktop is still doing great and has the latest and best OS and now feels just like new.
Advaita has not even completed 2 months yet and he has already attended 2 parties and has been to the beach once.
Advaita, tired after his visit to the beach on Sunday -
Though I have had the Canon Powershot G9 for more than a couple of months, I had not tried the manual controls and the RAW shooting mode. But I started experinmenting yesterday and since iPhoto 6 doesn’t support G9 RAW, I tried the Canon Raw Image Task. I was impressed with the post-processing that can be done with RAW images but cannot say the same about the Canon utility.
There is at least one freeware out there for Mac OS X - RAW Photo Processor. GIMP + UFRaw is also available, but I am not sure how elegant it is on Mac (or whether it works) - couldn’t find much information. But these do not provide photo organisation / library features and the workflow (download from camera, process, organise, print/export/publish) tends to become complicated.
There are a few options available to incorporate RAW/Post processing and workflow - Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements + Bridge. Apple’s Aperture 2.0 is available for a 30 day free trial and I am giving it a try. Also, Connected Flow has a free plugin for Aperture to export photos to Flickr and so the workflow for photos from camera to flickr via post processing is painless through one application itself.
One of my first tries -
There is loads of information on RAW vs JPEGs available and I cannot add much value here at this point of time, but I am sure that I will never go back to in-camera JPEGs now.