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Photo Mechanic vs. Aerture
Ron Kovach, Photographer
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Kennedale | TX | USA | Posted: 11:51 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Can anyone explain the basic difference between PM and Aperture. |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Thomas Boyd, Photographer
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 2:33 AM on 12.07.10 |
->> Aperture is a full blown Digital Asset Management software package that includes book making, slideshow, geo tagging, facial recognition, metadata input, image library, and a full assortment of powerful local/global adjustment tools, and powerful slideshow features.
Photo Mechanic is the industry standard for viewing, rating, metadata input and ftp transfer. It does not make local adjustments to images and relies on apps like Photoshop for that. It's power is speed and it's ability to input IPTC in many ways for many different needs. It also has some other features like geo-tagging, etc., but it's real attraction is it's focused feature set. |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Plainfield | IL | USA | Posted: 11:51 AM on 12.07.10 |
->> More than a little OT, but I used to think one advantage Aperture had over Photo Mechanic was the ability to shoot tethered directly into Aperture, however I was playing around with Canon EOS Utility yesterday while shooting product photos for some eBay listings and figured out a simple way to shoot tethered and have the images not only go into Photo Mechanic but immediately be displayed full screen for review (wow, that was the longest sentence I've typed in years, just made longer by this parenthetical comment). I did this by associating Photo Mechanic with EOS Utility within the preferences for EOS Utility then doing a "Live Slideshow" from within PM while I captured the shots tethered via EOS Utility.
I like the HUD in EOS Utility - you can control everything on your camera from your computer. In Aperture, as far as I know with all you can do is activate the shutter from within the program.
I suppose I could just associate Aperture with the EOS Utility, and that would even the playing field. Does Aperture have something like the "Live Slideshow" in PM? The views I'm familiar with in Aperture look more like contact sheets than full screen previews. It seems you have to go through a few extra steps to get to the slideshow.
In addition, I used to think Photo Mechanic had it over Aperture when it came to code replacement, but the work Jason Watson has done recently potentially evens this score, too.
Another up for Aperture is it allows you to not only manage files, but also to do most of the editing you would normally need to do, and to do so within the same program. Also, you can begin to work on images while an ingest is still in process, which isn't possible with PM.
Sounds like I'm a huge fan of Aperture, but rather I'm a HUGE fan of Photo Mechanic and CameraBits. It's fast, easy to use, very full-featured, and CameraBits are just about the best folks around for customer support and keeping their product up to date.
If you have access to Aperture, it might be worth some time to at least learn the basics based on these articles:
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/11/13/updated-aperture-3-on-the-road/
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/04/30/aperture-3-03-editing-three-photog.../
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/10/22/field-report-aperture-3-1-on-deadl.../
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/11/16/codereplacments-com-introduces-typ.../
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/11/16/codereplacments-com-introduces-typ.../ |
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Ron Kovach, Photographer
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Kennedale | TX | USA | Posted: 8:25 PM on 12.07.10 |
| ->> Thanks all, helps a lot. |
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