Comments on: Help me get the pictures from my digital camera onto my Mac

Question: Help me get the pictures from my digital camera onto my Mac

sveskemus — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:15:33 -0800

I have a Canon Ixus 65 and I want to get the photos off the camera and onto my iPhoto-less Mac (10.4.10). I tried to go to Canon's website to download their Image Browser software but I can only find an update that works if you have a previous version of Image Browser on your computer. I don't have the discs that came with my camera and Image Browser is not installed. I refuse to believe I'm screwed.

Is there any way to download the full version of Canon's Image Browser? Or, alternatively, is there some (preferably free) software I could download that would allow me to get the photos from my camera onto my computer?

By: tumult

tumult — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:30 -0800

try using Image Capture, it comes with os x and should be in your Applications directory.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:45 -0800

Most digital cameras function as a removable drive when connected to your computer. Can you manually copy the photos onto your local drive?

By: KenManiac

KenManiac — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:22:58 -0800

OS X comes with an app called "Image Capture"

you should find it in "Applications"

it works well, i used to use it to get movies off my Canon before iPhoto was able to.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:23:12 -0800

Take out the memory card and copy them off of that? You can get an SD card reader pretty cheap if you don't already have one.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:27:25 -0800

Image Capture worked brilliantly. Thank you all for your answers.