I need to know if it is possible to download something to an apple mac so I can plug the camera into it and transfer the pics to my computer
2006-09-11 00:49:37 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
If you're running OS X, it's unlikely you need to download anything.
Almost all modern digital cameras work just fine with a Mac. Hook up the camera with the USB cable it came with. Turn the camera on. If all is well, you'll get what looks like a little external drive on the desktop. That's your camera. Drag the photos onto your Mac's drive. When you're finished, drag the little drive icon to the trash to dismount the camera so you can safely disconnect it from the Mac.
If no one has monkeyed with the Mac's preferences, iPhoto probably will launch as soon as you turn on the connected camera. It will ask you if you want to import the photos. Click OK. It will suck copies into the iTunes database, where you can make simple adjustments and do cropping.
If you have an older Mac without a USB port and running an old version of the Mac OS, particularly anything before OS 9, things get tougher. Such machines were made before the era of consumer digital cameras and just don't have a convenient capability to handle them. If that's your situation, you can make do by going to a photo store or any retailer that has the equipment to burn your images from your memory card to a CD. As long as the Mac has a CD drive, you can pop in the CD and get your photos onto the Mac that way. It'll cost a couple of bucks for the CD.
Good luck!
2006-09-14 13:27:28 · answer #1 · answered by dbaldu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋