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11/01/2008 11:01:37 PM · #1 |
| So I have a MacBook and I want to use something that's not iPhoto to import my photos. But Image Capture doesn't seem to exist?? Where is it? Or did it not ship with leopard?? |
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11/01/2008 11:03:16 PM · #2 |
Jessi
I have image capture with my macbook pro and leopard. It's in the apps menu as you would expect on mine. Why don't you just use finder and copy the images to a new folder rather than using an app to import them?
Message edited by author 2008-11-01 23:04:55. |
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11/01/2008 11:07:46 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Jessi
I have image capture with my macbook pro and leopard. It's in the apps menu as you would expect on mine. Why don't you just use finder and copy the images to a new folder rather than using an app to import them? |
My camera won't show up like that? I don't know, it's weird, it won't even show up in Finder...
I will look again for image capture, but spotlight doesn't turn anything up... |
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11/01/2008 11:16:32 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Jessi:
My camera won't show up like that? I don't know, it's weird, it won't even show up in Finder...
I will look again for image capture, but spotlight doesn't turn anything up... |
Wow, that's odd on both counts. Are you using a card reader? I'm not full of helpful suggestions sorry. It does seem weird though |
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11/01/2008 11:37:17 PM · #5 |
| Open iPhoto. Go to iPhoto > Preferences > General and select ImageCapture from pop-up next to "Connecting Camera..." |
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11/01/2008 11:48:01 PM · #6 |
This question is exactly why I don't own a Mac. I dislike the fact that Apple software assumes you don't know what you're doing and tries to manage everything for you. No doubt you can change settings, but not everybody is that computer savvy.
Message edited by author 2008-11-01 23:48:25. |
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11/02/2008 12:07:07 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by scooter97:
This question is exactly why I don't own a Mac. I dislike the fact that Apple software assumes you don't know what you're doing and tries to manage everything for you. No doubt you can change settings, but not everybody is that computer savvy. |
That's nonsense. How can Mac know what you want to do, if you don't tell? -Would you rather look at a cryptic dialogue a la Windows and accomplish nothing? |
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11/02/2008 12:12:24 AM · #8 |
| There is no nonsense. I have been using Windows for as long as I have owned computers. The current version of Vista works without a hitch for me. I photo and I tunes just commandeer any files you try to import to your computer. Regardless of how you want to use them. I don't think that is user friendly. |
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11/02/2008 12:24:16 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by scooter97:
. I photo and I tunes just commandeer any files you try to import to your computer. Regardless of how you want to use them. I don't think that is user friendly. |
Don't know what mac you have been using--mine doesn't "commandeer" anything: I open the images with the application I want (Preview, Aperture, Elements, iPhoto), when I want, how I want. Same with iTunes.
The only problem my mac has caused me is the need to suppress and repress expletives each day when forced to use a windows machine at work.....
Message edited by author 2008-11-02 00:25:06. |
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11/02/2008 12:33:36 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by chromeydome:
The only problem my mac has caused me is the need to suppress and repress expletives each day when forced to use a windows machine at work..... |
OK, that made me laugh, and I'm right there with you |
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11/02/2008 12:38:28 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by salmiakki:
Originally posted by chromeydome:
The only problem my mac has caused me is the need to suppress and repress expletives each day when forced to use a windows machine at work..... |
OK, that made me laugh, and I'm right there with you |
Reverting to PCs induces Turet's Syndrome!! They should do a commercial :-) |
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11/02/2008 12:48:13 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by scooter97:
There is no nonsense. I have been using Windows for as long as I have owned computers. The current version of Vista works without a hitch for me. I photo and I tunes just commandeer any files you try to import to your computer. Regardless of how you want to use them. I don't think that is user friendly. |
They do kinda put them where they want to, but you can find them and bring them back. It gets kind of aggrivating, but not a huge deal.
It's certainly not enough to make me want to go back to my crashing, horrible dell.
ETA: The options under "Connecting camera opens.." are iPhoto and No Application. I guess I just don't have image capture then...
Message edited by author 2008-11-02 12:49:50. |
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11/02/2008 02:03:43 PM · #13 |
Well, I have Image Capture (open the applications folder, and it is there on my machine) I don't use it at all, though.
I have the "No application" choice selected, so when I connect a camera it just looks like a usb drive. Usually, though, I pop the memory card out and into a reader--I save all the image files to a Master Source folder that I made, and I never edit these files. I also copy them from the card over to a "play" folder and this is where I mess with them.
I usually select them all, right-lick and choose "quick look" to scan thru them quickly. Depending on the image, the intended use, etc., I may do a quick edit in Preview (pretty reasonable bare bones tool) to get a feel for what I might do with them, or to get a quick crop and adjustment for emailing to a friend, etc.
I usually use Aperture for more "serious" post processing, and any RAW files, so I open Aperture and import the ones I want. I use iPhoto some, too--a nice application and well suited to certain kinds of things. If I choose, I can open them with Elements 4 for mac. (There may be a newer Elements for mac than v4, but I don't use it much anyway, so haven't paid attention)
So, all of that should work on your laptop, except of course, that you need to have an alternate application for use other than Preview or iPhoto, should you want that. Having never used Image Capture, I don't know at all what editing capabilities it has--but Preview is probably more powerful than you might think.
The Missing Manual series of books by David Pogue for Leopard and iPhoto are helpful and user-friendly--you can find tricks on how to move your iPhoto Library where you want it, etc. But if you start by putting the image files where you want them in the first place, then opening them with the application of your choice, the control is yours :-)
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11/02/2008 03:28:47 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Jessi:
... The options under "Connecting camera opens.." are iPhoto and No Application. I guess I just don't have image capture then... |
It looks like someone disposed of Image Capture which is part of the Apple software bundled with the OS. I'm sure there is no individual download available. The only way to get it back would be to reinstall (the OS and Applications) from the Install Disk that came with your MacBook.
Message edited by author 2008-11-02 15:36:35. |
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11/02/2008 03:54:44 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by Jessi:
... The options under "Connecting camera opens.." are iPhoto and No Application. I guess I just don't have image capture then... |
It looks like someone disposed of Image Capture which is part of the Apple software bundled with the OS. I'm sure there is no individual download available. The only way to get it back would be to reinstall (the OS and Applications) from the Install Disk that came with your MacBook. |
She can't just install that part of the system from the install disk? Seems odd... Even Windoze has been able to do that for years...
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11/02/2008 04:22:02 PM · #16 |
| There is an outside app that lets one go to the source disks and download specific, individual apps--I used it years ago, but can't remember the name: I will do some searching and post back... |
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11/02/2008 05:12:07 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by chromeydome:
There is an outside app that lets one go to the source disks and download specific, individual apps--I used it years ago, but can't remember the name: I will do some searching and post back... |
The disk you remember was called Software Restore. The MacBook, to the best of my knowledge, did not come with this disk. |
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11/02/2008 06:03:22 PM · #18 |
Image Capture should be in your Applications folder (if you didn't move it or delete it on acident).
there are 2 different selections you can use to download pics from your camera. For it to show up as a Hard Drive on the desktop, you need to set the camera to Mass Storage. If it is PTP (peer to peer) then the Mac is going to look for it through an application.
Do you have Elements or Photoshop? Inside the Bridge program is PHOTO DOWNLOADER. You can access that by right clicking Bridge, open Contents, open MacOS, and pull Photo Downloader to the Dock or make an alias to put in your Applications folder. Open that and you can set it to open when a camera is connected.
With Image Capture, start it and go to the Preferences. When the dialog box comes up to ask what to do when a camera is connected, select OTHER, then you can select ANY program to use to download photos. You can search the whole computer for Image Capture by going in the Finder and typing Image Capture in the search box also. If you find it, I would put it back in the Applications folder.
I haven't ever used iPhoto and wiped it from y disk a long time ago, so not sure there, but I am sure in the Preferences somewhere, you can adjust it.
If Image Capture is gone, get out your Leopard Disk and reboot from it and see if you can reload it. There is an extras folder on that disk that has a bunch of crap on it.
Message edited by author 2008-11-02 18:04:35.
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11/02/2008 09:39:13 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by chromeydome:
There is an outside app that lets one go to the source disks and download specific, individual apps--I used it years ago, but can't remember the name: I will do some searching and post back... |
The disk you remember was called Software Restore. The MacBook, to the best of my knowledge, did not come with this disk. |
Actually, there is a third party program one can download that allows individual app loading from the OS disks--I used it on my first mac a couple years ago (the "years" being my excuse for not remembering the name)
I knew it started with "pac..." so I went back to the aforementioned missing manual book:
"If you know the secret, you can install only specific components of Mac OS X without having to install the whole thing. What you need is Pacifist, a shareware program .... Pacifist can also check existing installations and find missing or altered files. You can download it from the 'Missing CD" page at www.missingmanuals.com '
Here is the direct link to get it: //www.charlessoft.com/
Message edited by author 2008-11-02 23:32:37. |
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11/20/2008 08:53:28 PM · #20 |
| here's my question... i have a d700, and a new (to me, previous generation) macbook pro... the camera doesn't come up in the finder, thought the files DO appear in both lightroom2 and iphoto. camera control 2.3 doesn't read any camera connected to the computer either. help! is there anyway to manually find the camera, when the finder won't? |
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11/21/2008 09:05:18 AM · #21 |
you have the camera set to peer to peer or Mass storage?
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