Brief Hands-On Report--Apple released Digital Camera RAW Support Update 1.0.1 for Mac OS X 10.4.8

Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger provides support for a variety of popular digital camera and image file formats. Applications such as Aperture, iPhoto and Preview utilize this support to work with digital camera RAW files. A separate update is available for Intel-based Macs and PowerPC-based Macs. According to Apple,

This update improves RAW file format compatibility for the following digital SLR cameras:

-Canon Digital Rebel XTi / 400D / Kiss X Digital
-Nikon D80
-Pentax *ist DS

Other issues addressed:

-Handling of large Canon RAW files (.CRW)
-DNG compatibility on Intel-based Macs
-Lines sometimes appearing in images exported from Aperture

We downloaded and installed the update on our 2.33GHz 15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo and our 2.33GHz 24" iMac Core 2 Duo. We had no problem with the iMac but when we restarted the MacBook Pro we got a white screen and the fans revved up to full. We pressed the power button until the MacBook Pro shut down. It then restarted normally and we have not had any problems since. We do not have the cameras for which the fix is intended so we can not test them for you. [Bill Fox]