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<blockquote data-quote="NanoBite" data-source="post: 316539" data-attributes="member: 13565">G'day meodaugau &amp; welcome to Mac-Forums.Your MacBook should already have everything you need for basic transferrence of your digital images.&nbsp; It comes preinstalled with Image Capture &amp; iPhoto (or it should).Navigate to Macintosh HD&gt;Applications&gt;Image Capture.app and double click it to launch the app.Once Image Capture is open, connect your Canon PowerShot A80 to your Macs USB port.&nbsp; Image Capture should then recognise that there is a digital camera attached to the Mac and offer you options as to where you want the downloads to go and whether or not you want to pick and choose which images to download (Download Some).This is one method and frankly the method that suits my needs as I like to be able to select/deselect which photos I want to download from my camera.The alternative is to use iPhoto.&nbsp; If iPhoto doesn't automatically launch when you connect your Canon A80, then look to the preferences in Image Capture:Image Capture&gt;Preferences.....&gt;Camera: When a camera is connected, open ..... from the drop-down menu you can either select iPhoto or leave it set to Image Capture or whatever you have chosen as your default image handling app.I didn't like using iPhoto as it doesn't allow you to select what to download.&nbsp; Sometimes I'd download a 'Roll' and end up deleting half of them.&nbsp; Next time I'd connect my camera iPhoto would re-download the photos I'd trashed.&nbsp; It won't re-download a photo from your camera if you already have that photo in your library from a prior download, so that's good but in my opinion I needed more out of it.&nbsp; Hence, I use Image Capture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NanoBite, post: 316539, member: 13565"] G'day meodaugau & welcome to Mac-Forums. Your MacBook should already have everything you need for basic transferrence of your digital images. It comes preinstalled with Image Capture & iPhoto (or it should). Navigate to Macintosh HD>Applications>Image Capture.app and double click it to launch the app. Once Image Capture is open, connect your Canon PowerShot A80 to your Macs USB port. Image Capture should then recognise that there is a digital camera attached to the Mac and offer you options as to where you want the downloads to go and whether or not you want to pick and choose which images to download (Download Some). This is one method and frankly the method that suits my needs as I like to be able to select/deselect which photos I want to download from my camera. The alternative is to use iPhoto. If iPhoto doesn't automatically launch when you connect your Canon A80, then look to the preferences in Image Capture: Image Capture>Preferences.....>Camera: When a camera is connected, open ..... from the drop-down menu you can either select iPhoto or leave it set to Image Capture or whatever you have chosen as your default image handling app. I didn't like using iPhoto as it doesn't allow you to select what to download. Sometimes I'd download a 'Roll' and end up deleting half of them. Next time I'd connect my camera iPhoto would re-download the photos I'd trashed. It won't re-download a photo from your camera if you already have that photo in your library from a prior download, so that's good but in my opinion I needed more out of it. Hence, I use Image Capture. [/QUOTE]

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