On-the-hunt for potential alternatives to my Firestorm and Black Dragon-branded cameras (always nice to have spares for scenes where one suite of options is simply better than another), and stumbled across the somewhat new-ish Aperture 1.0.0, graciously listed in the previous Edition. Its name is more than a little on-the-nose for a camera brand, but I suppose it does indeed get the point across.
Much like the revered (and occasionally reviled) Black Dragon before it, Aperture aims to court an audience familiar with flourishing their lens into position at a moment's notice... And so far, I'm actually pretty impressed by what it offers.

Feels like appealing blend of both Firestorm and Black Dragon, with all the features of the former (at least all of the ones I'm familiar with) combined with many functions previously exclusive to Black Dragon (an in-depth Poser tool, wider range of camera settings, considerably expanded Windlight/Environment panels, etc).
Plus it boasts a few unique additions of its own, such as a built-in sharpness slider, and TEN(!!) camera position save slots, as opposed to the one (1) save/load slot seen in Firestorm and ZERO found in Black Dragon. Which always baffled me, seeing as BD is billed as the go-to for photographers around the realm, yet seemingly lacks such a critical feature. Unless it's been so long since I've used Black Dragon in a serious manner that I've simply forgotten such functionality does indeed exist for it, and if so, my apologies.

Snuck over to my neighbor's place to slap together a quick photo using Aperture in about ~10 minutes or so, no fancy post-processing effects or summoned spotlights to be found here.
Not super crazy about how its DoF is handled (although near-proximity DoF is very nice to see), so I'll likely still pair my usual add-on software with this new camera. Still, promising stuff!

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