I do what John suggests. Follow his advice. If you don't want to store all the photos in iPhoto just delete the event after you have put the few you want where you want them. I usually copy the memory card to a folder on the desktop labeled with the date (and topic) then I burn that folder to a CD or DVD. So I have backup. Sometime I delete the photos from iPhoto because they are not ones I would be looking at except in specific cases and then I go to the backup.
Anne On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Profile wrote: > Thanks Jim, > > > I also use a Canon and I use NO other software then iPhoto to download > the still and video files. Works perfectly and flawlessly. This is > why I ask the question, I believe you are making it harder than it > needs to be. No matter what I have taken, video and still all I do is > plug in the Canon, iPhoto opens (if it isn't already open) and it ask > me if I want import all, which I do for it is much easier to delete > the bad ones with the computer than trying to do it in the camera. > Once everything is imported I am ask if I want to delete the > originals, I make my choice and it is done. Unplug the camera and > then go to iPhoto to easily rotate, delete, get rid of redeye, adjust > settings, place into Events, etc. etc. > > Thanks for your detailed explanation, I hope you can try this new way > once to see how simple it is. > > John > > > On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: > >> I use Canon's Camera Window software to view files while they are >> still on >> the memory card (via a card reader). Then I select the video files to >> download to my Movies folder, leaving the still photos alone. Once >> the >> videos are on my computer, I use Canon's Image Browser program to >> rotate the >> movies that I took in vertical orientation, so I can view them >> without >> keeping my head at a 45 degree angle. It's the only free program I >> have >> known that could do this. >> >> Finally I close those programs, dismount the Canon volume, and >> unplug the >> card reader. Then I tell the computer to open photos in iPhoto (via >> the >> Image Capture app), reconnect, and download the stills into iPhoto. >> >> I have been using this two-fold approach for a few years, using >> iPhoto 4, >> which is all I've ever known until I bought the new iMac recently. I >> know >> you can download movies into iPhoto these days, but this was not so >> in >> iPhoto 4. I haven't yet explored iPhoto '08's capabilities, and when >> I do >> perhaps I won't need the Canon software anymore. >> >> But right now I've got three cards full of pictures and videos and I >> just >> want to get 'em off there and onto the new computer so I can look at >> them. >> >> Hope this answers your question. >> >> >> on 7/15/08 10:02 PM, Profile at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Jim, >>> >>> I am sorry I can't answer your question but can you tell me what the >>> Canon software DOES for you? What features, how is it to be used?. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: >>> >>>> I keep bumping into a roadblock when attempting to install Canon >>>> camera software on my new iMac running Leopard. >> >>>> Isn't there a way I can summon up an authentication box even though >>>> Canon is too lazy to present it to me? >> >>>> Any help will be appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Jim >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
