I have so far been able to just use iPhoto to connect. No problems with my old Canon. I bought a Casio 4megapixel and the software that came with it did the same thing, crash all the time. In the end I wiped all their software and iPhoto found the camera and worked without anything else. My wife bought a 3.something camera while I was off working and hers worked as well. In fact I have not had any problems with any camera that I have tried which include Vivitar, Casio, Canon, Fugi and Samsung. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ Larry Zasitko iMac 350mhz, Bondi Blue, 320meg ram, Jaguar Graphite Clamshell SE, G3 366mhz, 576 meg ram 12" G4 1.33ghz PowerBook, 768 meg ram, Superdrive, Airport Extreme Newton OMP, 110, 120, 2100 + eMate