ps have you tried printing your pics? could be your monitor blowing out the reds....

here's my tips on reds...the ist ds2 can handle reds but it's the light that messes it up. not brightness but rather the hardness of the light and high contrast does blow out the details...i'm shooting jpegs here to show and there's a page with more to check out. you may need a diffuser/scrim of some sort to soften the light when shooting reds.



http://web.mac.com/lightexpressions/iWeb/lightexpressionsphotography/Red.html

some people who checked out my podcasts have asked me to do the bunnie clip without the family photos. I thought I'd share it with everybody just for a laugh.
http://web.mac.com/lightexpressions/iWeb/lightexpressionsphotography/Easter%20Bunny.html

there's more info in these forums about building your own release with a mini stereo jack and a pushbutton switch...if you look you will find...

Fateamendable, I saw that the d is working but the dls aren't the ds2 I'm not sure...appleforums.....I see people are editing a plist file from within aperture to get it to open pefs from the ds and dl, but am waighting to see if anybody spots image defects as a result.

how much ram you got in your I mac?

I'm also watching apples forums and see there are some hacks being done.
Apple has a tendancy to let the open source/hacker communities develope the stuff, then look at what works and incorporate it in one or two upgrades down the road.
I never buy first models/releases of anything, wait for the bugs to surface and solutions to come, then buy.
Never hurts to keep your nose to the wind and ask though....
I'm not ready to switch to complete raw workflow yet..volume doesn't justify the cost right now, but that is changing...future looks bright.

anybody have any firsthand experiance with the above mentioned combo?

I can't remember it was marketed as a pro (NPG????)800 speed film here in Canada...haven't bought film for years now...

Yeah the video light can be bothersome but people do get used to it.

I bet you'd like the low light abilities if the ist d family with a fast normal lens.

fuji makes a nice 800 speed color film that scans well.
Here's a suggestion for the g5- try a hotshoe mounted videocam light.

There's two ways really..
one involves puttung a quarter in the machine and trying to smack it with a mallet..
the other is to blow it's @##$??? head off.