Aperture 2 is Apple’s own brand solution for both keen semi-pro and pro photographers who as yet haven’t wedded themselves to either of Aperture’s rivals - Adobe Lightroom or  the excellent Phase One RAW software. All of these retain their own benefits, but Aperture has just relaunched as version 2 with a substantially reduced UK price point of £129.00.If you are yet to commit, then Aperture 2 has a lot to offer. We are currently running the software on a MacBook Pro, and it certainly seems fast and a vastly improved over our previous favourite set-up, shooting with Canon’s own processing software combined with Adobe Bridge and Photoshop.We’ll add to this post shortly with a full rundown of the benefits as we seem them including the ability to shoot directly from your Mac using the Tether function - in the meantime,  check out the Apple website.