Using your Macintosh computer

You can copy images to your computer.

•The supplied software is not compatible with Macintosh computers.

Recommended computer environment

Copying and viewing images on

acomputer

1Prepare the camera and a Macintosh computer.

The following environment is

Perform the same procedure as that

recommended for a computer connected to

described in “Stage 1: Preparing the

the camera.

camera and the computer” on page 72.

Recommended environment for copying images

OS (pre-installed): Mac OS 9.1, 9.2 or Mac OS X (v10.0 or later)

USB jack: Provided as standard

Notes on connecting your camera to a computer

•Operations are not guaranteed for all the recommended computer environments mentioned above.

•If you connect two or more USB devices to a single computer at the same time, some devices, including your camera, may not operate depending on the types of USB devices you are using.

•Operations are not guaranteed when using a USB hub.

•Connecting your camera using a USB interface that is compatible with Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0 compliant) allows advanced transfer (high speed transfer) as this camera is compatible with Hi- Speed USB (USB 2.0 compliant).

•There are three modes for a USB connection when connecting a computer, [Auto] (default setting), [Mass Storage] and [PTP] modes. This section describes the [Auto] and [Mass Storage] as examples. For details on [PTP], see page 67.

•When your computer resumes from the suspend or sleep mode, communication between your camera and your computer may not recover at the same time.

2 Connect the USB cable.

Perform the same procedure as that described in “Stage 2: Connecting the camera and your computer” on page 73.

3 Copy image files to the Macintosh computer.

1Double-click the newly recognized icon t [DCIM] t the folder where the images you want to copy are stored.

2Drag and drop the image files to the hard disk icon.

The image files are copied to the hard disk.

•For details on the storage location of the images and file names, see page 77.

4 View images on the computer.

Double-click the hard disk icon t the desired image file in the folder containing the copied files to open that image file.

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