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Using your Macintosh computer
You can copy images to your Macintosh
computer and change your desired music in
Slide Show using “Music Transfer”.
Recommended environment for
copying images
OS (pre-installed):
Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or Mac
OS X (v10.0 or later)
USB connector:
Provided as standard
• We recommend that you have QuickTime 6 or
later pre-installed on your computer.
Recommended environment for using
“Music Transfer”
OS (pre-installed):
Mac OS X (v10.3 or
later)
CPU:
iMac, eMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power
Mac G3/G4/G5 series, Mac mini
Memory:
64 MB or more (128 MB or more is
recommended.)
Hard Disk:
Disk space required for
installation—approximately 250 MB
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 58.
• 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
Connect the camera with a
Macintosh computer.
Perform the same procedure as
described in “Stage 2: Connecting the
camera with a computer” on page 63.
2
Copy image files to the Macintosh
computer.
1
Double-click the newly recognized icon
t
[DCIM] (for still image) or
[MP_ROOT] (for movie)
t
the folder
where the images you want to copy are
stored.
2
Drag 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 67.
3
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.
• To view movies, MPEG-4 compliant
application software is required.
Recommended computer
environment
Copying and viewing images on
a computer