Using your Macintosh computer

You can copy images to your Macintosh computer.

“Picture Motion Browser” is not compatible with Macintosh computers.

Copying and viewing images on a computer

Recommended computer environment

The following environment is recommended for a computer connected to the camera.

Recommended environment for copying images

OS (pre-installed): Mac OS 9.1/9.2/ Mac

OS X(v10.1 to v10.4)

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.

There are two modes for a USB connection when connecting a computer, [Mass Storage] (default setting) and [PTP] modes. This section describes [Mass Storage] as an example. For details on [PTP], see page 53.

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

1 Prepare the camera and a Macintosh computer.

Perform the same procedure as described in “Stage 1: Preparing the camera and the computer” on page 60.

2 Connect the dedicated USB cable.

Perform the same procedure as described in “Stage 2: Connecting the camera and your computer” on page 61.

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 65.

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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