Canon A470 on a Mac...

Is it really so that Canon don't comply with the mass storage standards?

I only found this out after buying my daughter one of these a few weeks ago (a real bargain at Argos at the moment). The card won't read in my card reader (a SDHC card), it won't mount or show up in Image Capture or mount in Finder. The camera does show up in iPhoto etc., but won't mount in Finder, which does make it harder to extract movies.

I thought we'd seen the last of all this kind of thing years ago. This might be the last Canon camera buy.

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Andy Hewitt

You probably need a new reader. The older readers have trouble with higher capacity cards.

Conchita said:

You probably need a new reader. The older readers have trouble with higher capacity cards.

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I doubt it's capacity, it already works with 4GB CF cards from my Olympus DSLR, the card we got with the Canon is also 4GB.

It might be worth trying a new reader though.

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Andy Hewitt

To read sdhc cards you need a reader which specifically can read sdhc cards. My older card reader could not read sdhc card.
ag

Try getting the movies off with Image Capture, its in your application folder. You might want to turn off the preference in image capture for iPhoto to auto launch when you connect your camera. You can get any file type off your camera with Image Capture.

Make sure your card reader is SDHC not just regular SD, they changed the SD standard a few years ago and the cards are NOT backward compatible with older (non-SDHC) devices.

Thanks to the info about the cards, I've ordered a new card reader, which I hope will do the job.

As for the importing, I normally import straight into Aperture, and then make another download into a plain Finder folder (so that I have two completely separate copies of all my images, one of which never gets touched/edited).

However, I also have been trying out the Cameras preference pane, which should make this job easier.

Cheers.

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Andy Hewitt