Photokina is Europe’s key trade show for digital imaging professionals, with around 160,000 visitors from 140 countries attending the six-day event. This year, Apple further underlined its commitment to the digital photography market by having a major presence at the show for the first time.

By way of celebration, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing, Rob Schoeben, hosted a special event at the historic Gürzenich in Cologne on Monday September 25th. Apple used the event to unveil Aperture 1.5, a major update to the all-in-one post production tool for photographers.

Check out a photo gallery from the show floor.
Apple's Rob Schoeben introduces Aperture 1.5.
Apple’s Rob Schoeben introduces Aperture 1.5.
The capacity crowd wait with bated breath for the presentation to start.
The capacity crowd waits with bated breath for the presentation to start.
Aperture is designed from the ground up to make working with RAW images as easy as working with JPEGs.
Aperture is designed from the ground up to make working with RAW images as easy as working with JPEGs.
Joe Schorr, Senior Product Manager for Aperture, demonstrates the Loupe tool, which now features on-screen controls.
Joe Schorr, Senior Product Manager for Aperture, demonstrates the Loupe tool, which now features on-screen controls.
You can now take your photos with you by using iTunes to sync your Aperture library to your iPod.
You can now take your photos with you by using iTunes to sync your Aperture library to your iPod.
Schorr demos the new export API, which makes it easy to extend the Aperture workflow to third-party applications and services.
Schorr demos the new export API, which makes it easy to extend the Aperture workflow to third-party applications and services.
Aperture 1.5 lets you choose how you'd like to store images: copy them into a managed Aperture Library or store them on hard drives, network volumes or CD/DVDs.
Aperture 1.5 lets you store images on hard drives, network volumes or DVDs, and “reference” them from within the app.
The new version of Aperture is localised into French, German and Japanese.
The new version of Aperture is localised into French, German and Japanese.
Aperture 1.5 is a free update for existing Aperture users.
Aperture 1.5 is available as a free download to existing Aperture customers.
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