So i found my old nikon coolpix 5700. Took a bunch of pics with it of my boys soccer game today. Came home, installed the Nikon View CD, said installed successfully, but when I hook the camera to my Mac, nothing happens. I cant get it to read the photos. HELP!?
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HELP with powerbook and a Nikon Coolpix camera!
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When you open iPhoto and go into preferences, does it have "open iPhoto" selected next to the "Connecting camera opens" dialog box? You might have unchecked that at some point and it just needs to be checked.
Otherwise, if the photos are stored on a SD card, then use a SD card reader to do it. If you don't have one of those, maybe you have a printer with a media card reader on it that will also work.
I think you have a compact flash card as opposed to a SD card. Do you have a printer with a card reader?
When you connect the camera, does anything show up in Finder, or does the PB not mount anything at all?
yea it is a compact flash. Printer has no reader. nothing happens at all when i plug the camera in
well that's lame. Did you restart the PB after installing the software for the camera? Did you shut the camera on an off? You never know because that might work. I remember having issues a couple of times with my iPhone 3GS not being recognized at first and then simply restarting both of them made the syncing work perfectly.
It's possible I suppose. If you have any other cords that you could test it with, that would be a good test, but otherwise, I would try to find something that has a compact flash card reader in it. Even if you had an older PS3, an older Windows-based tower, that could work as a workaround.
Other than that though, I'm afraid that I can't help you very much.
Just get a straight up reader, the system will put it on the desktop as a external usb device. Simply go into the drive in finder and transfer your photo's to whatever program you are using to edit.
this one should work
http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Fla...-1-catcorr&keywords=compact+flash+card+reader
Another thing you could do is go and buy an external media card reader. It's not the most enjoyable thing to do when you should be able to sync over the included cable, but at least this way you'll have it for any machine you decide to import the photos to and won't have to worry about downloading and installing software for it.
I use a usb media card reader for my photos and have actually never used the cable to connect to my camera.
I did and it says no device connected..maybe the cord is bad? Who knows..so frustrating..have to get a card reader and try that..otherwise i dont know what else to try.