Hi Diana, My suggestion/question regarding Image Capture was whether Image Capture would see the attached camera WITHOUT using any Canon software - in essence using the camera as its own Card Reader - this may not be possible but have you actually tried connecting the camera by usb and opening Image Capture - does it just say "No camera or scanner connected" - if so then, yes, a Card reader may be required.
However, if iPhoto is getting the photos off your camera without the Canon software then I would have expected Image capture to be able to do the same. But then again, my expectations are frequently unmet ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/2/12 4:42 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Hi Neil > > The software for my old Canon PowerShot G2 was OS9. I spoke to Trevor at Team > Digital, he sold it to me in the Perth Pro days, he said he was sure there was > an OSX version. I had failed to find one and so did he. > > Trevor suggested a Card Reader and I shall probably get one. In the meantime I > located the JPGs for the photos I downloaded in iPhoto, duplicated them and > put them in a folder in my system. > > But I do need to master iPhoto so that I can have photos etc on my iPad. > These include my Family History Charts that are in Canvas 3.5 (no substitute > in OSX) which I export as JPGs and put in iPhoto. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards > Diana > > On 21/02/2012, at 6:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Diana, >> >> If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried >> opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image >> Capture sees the Canon camera? >> >> I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than >> the way iPhoto wants to file them - and use a separate editor (eg Photoshop >> Elements or Graphic Converter) if I want to edit them. >> >> My old Canon camera has now died :o( - but with my iPhone, I have turned off >> synching with iPhoto and I use Image capture to download photos off the >> phone. >> >> Just a thought. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> >> >> >> on 21/2/12 12:15 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: >> >>> I have avoided iPhoto & iTunes up until now as I thought they were >>> unnecessarily complicated. >>> >>> I hate the way iPhoto puts one camera download in multiple folders if the >>> pics >>> were not all taken on the same day. I previously used the Canon software but >>> my camera is so old there is no OSX version. Now I have a MacBookPro it is >>> iPhoto or a card reader. >>> >>> I only used iTunes to put Pod Casts on my iPod but now I find I like some >>> music on my iPad. I imported a Peggy Lee / George Shearing Album from CD and >>> it filed the two instrumentals under George and the vocals under Peggy. Same >>> nasty busy-body behaviour! >>> >>> But I need to learn to cope with this and manage my files. Please someone >>> point me towards a tutorial for the simple-minded. >>> >>> And maybe someone can advise me about the iTunes Store. I wanted to buy a >>> few >>> tracks from the Kate Bush Album 'The Kick Inside', it is $8.99 and contains >>> 13 >>> tracks, 12 at $2.19 each plus one at $1.69, doesn't add up. Buying the album >>> is the best option but can I be sure I shall get all the tracks? If I don't >>> get them all they may not include the ones I want. >>> >>> Best wishes to all from Diana >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
