Digital Cameras

Like Windows, OS X is extremely camera-friendly. The simple act of connecting a digital camera to its USB cable stirs OS X into action—namely, it opens Photos, Apple’s digital-photo shoebox program (Photos).

If it’s a digital video camera you plugged in, then OS X opens iMovie instead. (If iMovie intrigues or baffles you, an entire Missing Manual on the topic awaits you. Just sayin’.)

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