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Originally Posted by cminchom (Post 436361)

I have spoken to DxO and they recommend in the mean time using a card reader until I can get the Finder/Desktop to mount and show the camera all by itself again.

I know this won't solve the problem but I would certainly agree with using a card reader in general. A direct connection to the camera via USB is problematic in all kinds of ways and is usually slower.

When the external hard drive is connected it shows as present on the USB High-Speed Bus. When it is removed it goes away, but when the camera is connected it does not show up instead. However the imaging applications themselves continue to recognize the camera and to download images if asked.
Console shows no message on connection of the camera.

Did you "Refresh" System Profiler after connecting the camara? If iPhoto sees it, it will be there.

You are quite right. Re-starting System Profiler brings up the camera as: NIKON DSC D200.
Trying the change flags command in terminal, using this name to make it visible (and with quotation marks around it as it is several words), however still brings back:
no such file or directory

I have a camera that lets me choose the mode that it works under when connected via USB. When I set it to operate in "Card Reader" mode, it opens iPhoto and mounts on the desktop. This is what is displayed in Apple System Profiler:

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SANYO Digital Camera:



  Capacity:        1.92 GB

  Removable Media:        Yes

  Detachable Drive:        Yes

  BSD Name:        disk3

  Version:        1.00

  Bus Power (mA):        500

  Speed:        Up to 480 Mb/sec

  Manufacturer:        SANYO

  Mac OS 9 Drivers:        No

  Partition Map Type:        MBR (Master Boot Record)

  Product ID:        0x0242

  Serial Number:        000007353533

  S.M.A.R.T. status:        Not Supported

  Vendor ID:        0x0474

  Volumes:

XACTI C40:

  Capacity:        1.92 GB

  Available:        1.92 GB

  Writable:        Yes

  File System:        MS-DOS FAT16

  BSD Name:        disk3s1

  Mount Point:        /Volumes/XACTI C40

Now, if I change it to "PictBridge" mode, it still opens iPhoto and works the same way there, but it does not mount on the desktop. This is what is displayed in System Profiler:

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SANYO Digital Camera:



  Version:        1.00

  Bus Power (mA):        500

  Speed:        Up to 480 Mb/sec

  Manufacturer:        SANYO

  Product ID:        0x0243

  Serial Number:        000007353533

  Vendor ID:        0x0474

As you can see, the difference it quite obvious. Now, how the OS determines what mode is what, I haven't the faintest idea. It has to be responses from USB queries to the drivers. You might consider looking through your camera settings to see if there is some mode setting you can change.

There's an experiment you can perform to see if the problem is some driver in the OS, or a setting in the camera. Boot the OS X CD (either Tiger or Panther) and launch Disk Utility from the DVD. Now, connect your camera and see it it shows up as a recordable device. If it doesn't appear while booted from the CD, it must then be a setting in the camera preventing it.

Running Disk Utility under the Leopard install-disk did not show a volume.

Your conclusion that the issue then must likely reside in the camera indeed turned out to be correct. Deep in the menu banks of the D200 there is a USB setting that permits the camera to show either as a drive or as a device. Lo and behold - it was set to show as a device. Somehow I must have changed it unknowingly while playing with the settings in the weeks gone by. As soon as I changed this the camera again shows up in the Finder and Desk-top as a volume.

However my original issue is unchanged: even images downloaded directly from the new-found volume will not process correctly in the DxO program which, in particular, still no longer performs its distortion corrections. I will now report this to them; if it is a larger Leopard compatibility issue they will need to address this, including in their new version 5 which is supposed to come out for the Mac imminently after already having been launched for Windows.

Many thanks to all who have helped with this detective hunt - I have certainly learned a good deal in the process.

After eliminating the Drive issue, the folks at DxO were able to provide an updated lens adjustment module to take the place of a corrupted file and their program is now running again with 100% functionality. Their response to the issue throughout I must say was excellent: both forensic and supportive.

Altogether therefore a happy ending.

I have this same problem.

None of the above suggestions work, and I still cannot access my camera from the finder.

I recently upgraded to Leopard, I never had this problem when using Tiger.

Before I could simply open up my camera straight from the finder and drag-copy everything onto my HD.

I do not like having to use an app to do this, I just want to copy the pictures as files, and not have to deal with fancy consumer software.

The only options on my camera are Auto or PictBridge.
The camera is an A560.

I have yet to try using my XSI with Leopard, but I hope it works at least!

Some cameras, notably Canon cameras do not show up on the desktop or finder - they don't mount as drives. Only way to get around that is to use a card reader.