friends with a (win doze) pc can plus their iPhones in by usb and it shows up as a external drive and they can xfer pix like that.. can we do that? i have a mbp with 10.7.3
Assuming you have your iPhone plugged in, it should display all the photos/videos on it, with the option to then import.
Give it a bit of time to detect it once you've connected your iPhone, I've found the program woefully temperamental in Lion.