Lego digital camera and iPhoto

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Lego digital camera and iPhoto

My seven year old son just got a Lego camera for his birthday. I plugged it into my Mac (10.6.4) and iPhoto '09 and the Lego camera doesn't show up.

I don't see anything in the forums regarding the Lego camera and I don't see anything in Google about the Lego camera and iPhoto.

Has anyone else gotten their 3MP Lego digital camera to work with iPhoto?

MBP and MB, Mac OS X (10.6.4), touch, 3G, 4

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 6:27 PM

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LarryHN

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Nov 21, 2010 6:50 PM in response to ppcx

This probably is a question for Lego support

Basically when a storage device that is formatted FAT 32 is connected it is assumed to be a camera and by default iPhoto is opened

So the first question for Lego is what format their storage is and if they have tested their camera with MAC software

LN

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ppcx Author

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Nov 21, 2010 6:42 PM in response to ppcx

Follow-up: I opened Image Capture (from the Applications folder) and the camera does not show up.

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Nov 21, 2010 7:56 PM in response to LarryHN

My guess is that the camera is not Mac-compatible. A lot of inexpensive digital cameras use proprietary software to access the disks on the camera; the software is always PC-only. My daughter had a Disney camera that had the same issue. You might be able to get it to work using Parallels to run the PC software, otherwise you could use Boot Camp to put Windows on your Mac and then copy the pictures over.

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jcrg

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Dec 25, 2010 9:38 AM in response to ppcx

Hello.
Just to let you know that The Lego Camera works perfectly with iPhoto 2011.
JC.

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Baicutt

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Jan 4, 2011 7:11 AM in response to jcrg

now if I could only get the camera to work with my iPad. Ugh

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