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Originally Posted by Tinpusher It is with some remorse that I must admit that if there's one thing that my PC does better than my G4, it's handle my Fujifilm Finepix S5500.
Importing using the Fuji supplied software- forget it. So I tried iPhoto, which is... WORSE!!!
What I want to be able to do is plug the camera in, press a few buttons and have all the images transferred to the hard disk, sorted into folders retaining the original file name from the camera (DSCF.....). One folder per day.
I do not want to go through the rigmorole of navigating to 2005, then 12, then 11 to find my photos. Neither do I want to have to think of a name for the "album". Not unless the "album" will automatically create itself and name itself for the day that the photo was taken. Like the PC version of Fuji's software does for me.
I also don't like the endless copies that iPhoto stores for me. One thumbnail and one original, if I rotate the image. No thank you!
It seems the only way I can use my Fuji camera with my mac, the way I want it to work is to do the transfer process manually. In which case I want to delete iPhoto.
Can I do this? Is there anything I have to watch for when I'm deleting this infernal waste of HD space? |
Personally, I love the way iPhoto works... but to each his own.
Why not just manually drag the files off the camera into your own directory structure? From what you're describing, it seems like you might gain only a few seconds having an application do it for you. I'm sure you could even write a fairly simple applescript to automate it.
Also have you used ImageCapture? It's in /Applications.
It also looks like Automator could possibly assist. Unfortunately, I don't have a camera to test it with.