I really hope this solves these problems. It's being battered around on several major sites.

Besides, I want to buy the damn thing already, but I don't want to use it with the problems it has.

creativepro.com had the best, most balanced, and exhaustive review so far.

ars technica's review was fine as far as it went; it just didn't go very far. Very disappointing considering ars' usual excellence.

Dave is not untypical of those who will be using the program. Many photographers never do selections of their own photos any more. The editors do it.

As he said, even he has to do it. I've had customers over the years who asked me to sit with them and make selections.

I can easily see editors in newspapers or magazines using this. The photographers almost never do their own selections.

When we used to run a Kodachrome line, we had Time as a client.

We would keep the lab open on weekends when they had stories being flown in. We would develop the film and give it straight to a member of the editorial staff, who took it right to the offices to be evaluated.

The photographer was still on the other continent.

If anything, with digital images being transmitted directly to the home office, there is less intervention by the photographer.

For weddings and the like, it's a different story.

Arse Technika is populated by Windows shills and astroturfers. It has always been a place where Apple users and fans are attacked and denigrated by the gang of pompous asses that like to assert their presumed superiority over anyone that chooses the Macintosh as their platform of choice.

In their review, Aperture was dismissed out of hand for it's RAW converter alone, with no consideration to it's revolutionary workflow and photo selection features, not to mention it's gorgeous user interface.

RAW is not an Industry standard, but a set of proprietary algorithms to convert the raw information captured by the camera's CCD chip. Each manufacture's implementation is unique, thus Nikon's RAW implementation (NEF) is different from Canon's or Sony's or anyone else's.

Aperture has tackled the monumental job of making order out of the chaos that is RAW file conversion. That they have a product that can address this at all is surprising, that version 1.0 has shortcomings for Photoshop wonks is not.

Adobe is attempting to address this with a universal format (DNG) for camera RAW files. This is hopefully something that the camera manufacturers will get on board with, and when they do Apple will be there with Aperture.