Apple is calling all professional photographers to upload images so Apple can improve the RAW imaging program in OS X. Apple said "In a ongoing effort to improve and refine the handling of RAW images in the Mac OS, Apple is interested in working with a broad range of sample images from professional photographers. If you have images that you feel exemplify particular aspects of RAW handling that require improvement, you can submit these to Apple for testing and evaluation purposes. Please be assured that any image content you send us will be used for internal testing purposes only. None of these images will be distributed to the public, used in any marketing capacity whatsoever, or included in public demos. They will be used exclusively to test and evaluate RAW image processing, with the goal of delivering improved RAW support for your camera in the future."
All files are to be placed together in a single folder and uploaded via FTP to FTP site "privftp.apple.com," with username "proappcustomer" and password "media." Photographers should send an email to aperturefeedback@group.apple.com to notify the company that the files have been sent to the write-only FTP site.
The photographer must prove Apple with the original RAW image, specify the camera model, a 16-bit TIFF of the image created in Aperture using default settings, a 16-bit TIFF created using RAW conversion settings of the photographers choice and any comments the photographer has to pass onto Apple.