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Apparently, Apple have heard the call from the masses and reacted — they have an non-OS point release update for RAW file support that includes the E-3. And just in time for me — I wasn’t looking forward to doing the DNG conversion two-step that I had discussed previously with all of my photos from Japan. Now I have the pleasure of importing directly from the E-3 to Aperture. Sweet.

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If you aren’t already familiar with the fount of boundless Norris knowledge that is Chuck Norris Facts — check it out now.

Once you become familiar, open the google search page and type in “find chuck norris” then click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Google respects Chuck’s badness. And you should, too!

In case this goes away over time, the page that Google returns is:

Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.

No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.

Your search – Chuck Norris – did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Run, before he finds you

* Try a different person

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Until Apple supports the Olympus E-3 RAW format directly (via some future OS upgrade) in Aperture, there is a way to use the new Olympus ORF format with Aperture:

• First, download and install the Adobe DNG Converter.
• Next copy the ORF files from the camera’s CF card to an export folder on a Mac disk drive.
• Create a DNG folder under the export folder.
• Start Adobe DNG Converter and configure it to point at the source (export folder) and destination (DNG folder). If you placed the DNG folder under the export folder, make sure to uncheck the ‘include images contained within subfolders’ option on the source folder.
• If you find a need to change the file names for the converted files make the changes in the ‘Step 3′ section of the Converter. I went with the defaults, which generates a file with the same name as the original; only with a DNG extension rather than ORF.
• Click the Convert button.
• Once the conversion is complete, start Aperture and have it import the DNG folder (not the export folder). If Aperture tells you that you have an unsupported file type it is because you didn’t import the DNG folder.

I have been deleting the DNG files after importing to Aperture and keeping the ORFs because I have been toying with the idea of re-importing them into Aperture when they are directly supported to see if there was any lost in the DNG conversion process.

There you have it, one extra step to be able to use Aperture with the Olympus E-3. Which is much easier and cheaper that switching to Adobe Lightroom, which is what some wags have been recommending.

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I had to chuckle at this article wherein IBM seems vexed that the number of computer science and IT graduates is declining in the USA. Really. IBM is probably one of the IT companies that led the charge to offshore jobs and slash US IT positions.

And they wonder why IT is not as attractive an option for college students? They have already sent the message that ‘cheap’ is what they want; not homegrown (or even good, for that matter).

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