I tryed Aperture 2 vs. Lightroom vs. Some Other Photo Archive-tools. I finally bought Ligthroom, it is much faster and in my opinion nicer to handle.

And the raw converter is a dream with my Nikon. :)

Aperture science? They do what they must because they can?

Oh… different Aperture, my bad.

I tried the 30 trial of Aperture 2 (I currently use Aperture 1.5.x). All I can say from that trial is that it is much faster! The new tools as well are very nice. Also the addition of the editing tool architecture added to Aperture 2 will be sweet! Noise Ninja added to Aperture will be very nice.

I think you should upgrade. The only reason I have not upgraded yet is because of budgeting (I wanted a new lens first). But I should upgrade sometime this summer.

Love aperture 2, works really good with my canon cameras. highly recommend it. however, i have used lightroom and its also very nice. do you have aperture 1.5 ? or just wanting to go to get this program after seeing some features ?

I just upgraded myself, and while I haven’t delved into all the options yet, I have to say I am impressed by the speed difference alone. The only negative I have seen so far is that somehow all the links to my referenced files broke. You point it back to one file, click fix all, and everything in that folder gets found at once, but if you have a lot of folders it could be a hassle. It seems to have something to do with thinking the hard drive is offline and that the one it sees (the same drive with the same name - nothing changed for me) is a new one. (Some drive ID setting?)

Sucks. Bad. Terrible. Squirrel crap.

Aperture?

Maybe black mesa?

That was a joke. Ha ha. Fat chance.

Aperture 2 is great, the speed upgrade is especially noticeable on a MBP. I had gotten pretty accustomed to the old interface so there was an adjustment period, though onlly when not running full screen mode. Well worth the price of admission.

Update on the broken links to referenced files…
I was able to select all my images at once in the “all images” smart folder, and tell it where one photo was, and it sucessfully relinked all 15,000 photos even though they were in different subfolders. Took about 5 minutes to churn through it all, but it worked.

I like it a lot, I used 1.5 for about 9 months and loved the workflow. 2 fixes a lot of complaints I had (which were few to begin with). It’s my favorite of the organization bunch I’d suggest it to anyone I know but I think if you’re going to pay 200 for it, go get some pocket wizards or flashes instead unless you LOVE organizing pictures

If you already have Aperture 1.5 there’s absolutely no reasons for not updating to 2.0. Aperture 2.0 is unbelievably faster than 1.5 and it takes up a lot less dead space on the screen as they have combined both the Project, Metadata-editor and Adjustments panel into three tabs in one navigator. Cropping and straightening is now also instant and flows perfectly.

use it all the time, I love it, especially at the price good deal if you take a lot of pictures and work with raw files.

I’ve used both Aperture and Lightroom, and I have discussed this with a few professional photographers - the final choice has always been Lightroom. It is better organized and has better tools. The main problem with Aperture, as with iphoto, is that all the pictures are held within a single database, where has Lightroom makes it easy to separate databases, pictures, and the like.

Aperture is pretty cool looking and has some neat tools (like the loupe) but I think Lightroom is better over-all.

Aperture definitely brought major enhancements and well worth the upgrade. I currently use Lightroom. I feel the exposure controls are just more intuitive and I really like the integration with Photoshop. Its a personal preference though. I say upgrade.