Transferring Photos from a Digital Camera

Many digital cameras store pictures on removable flash memory cards (with odd names like Compact Flash, xD, Memory Sticks, or Secure Digital). To transfer pictures, you have two options. One, you can just pull the removable flash card out of your digital camera and plug it into a special flash card reader that plugs into a USB port on your Macintosh. Your Macintosh then treats this flash memory card as just another storage device from which you can copy (and delete) pictures as you would any ordinary file. The drawback, however, is that you need to buy a separate flash memory card reader (which typically costs $30 or less). However, some MacBook Pro laptop models come with a built-in Secure Digital (SD) ...

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