Problem transferring pix from T30 to my iMac

[lorna]

Sony DSC-T30

I worked with the manual but it is unclear! I have several pictures in my new T30 that I want to upload to my Macintosh computer.

I connected the T30 to the Mac with the cable that came in the box.

I slid the toggle to the far left to the right-facing ARROW/triangle.
I got that message about "Mass Storage."
I almost immediately saw the pictures on my Macintosh monitor in the iPhoto 6 application. Yay!

Here is where I got lost:

I wanted to turn off/disconnect the T30 from my Mac, so I slid the arrow button back to camera mode. I unplugged the USB connector from my T30. I turned off my T30.

At that point my Macintosh screen said that a device was removed improperly and that data could be lost or damaged. It gave instructions about clicking onto an icon in the "File" menu, but I found nothing relevant in that File menu!

I now do not have those pictures in my iPhoto: They indeed did vanish from my Macintosh iMac. I still see the picture in my T30, though.

(A side issue is that I cannot review the several other pictures I took but I guess that will require more reading of the manual....)

What did I do wrong? How do I get the images to my iMac, disconnect the USB cable, but keep the images?

I do not understand that manual. It is not clear 1, 2, 3.

Please help me.
— Lorna
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 12:30 PM PST

[Sintares]

I have no idea about macs however ..

Things to try.

Before disconnecting anything, find the photos on your hard drive, and copy them to another folder of your choice.

Or try turning off the camera first before unplugging.

Or buy a card reader for your mac, say $10-$15 from ebay, that way you avoid plugging and unplugging the camera, avoid wasting battery life and its likely to be faster to download from the card to the computer.

[lorna]

Dear Sintares....
I figured it out! With a Mac it is extremely simple. The digital files go straight into my iPhoto application in my Mac. My error was in not trashing the icon that represented the camera. Once I did that, I was able to disengage the camera from the Mac without getting the message that I referred to.

I notice that the white is not accurate in my T30. It comes off as slightly yellowish, whereas the whites in my kitchen are pure white.

-Lorna :) :)

[Sintares]

The light in the room will affect the colors the camera sees.

Incandescent bulbs, will give a different color cast to a room under fluorescents etc.

Preset the white balance on the camera to match the lighting if that is an option as auto white balance is generally bad as the camera basically has to guess.

Some cameras can manually set white balance by selecting the option, pointing the camera at something that is white in the shot ( or a white piece of card/paper ) and then pressing ok.

Check to see if your camera has that option.

Otherwise you can correct color casts in post processing.

Googles' Picasa, http://picasa.google.com/ for example can correct this.

From the Tuning menu, neutral color picker, click on an area of white and there you go..

[lorna]

Sintares....
I took pictures of those flowers in the vase with two cameras: My new Sony T30 and my old Canon Powershot S10 1 megapixel. The color is truer in the Canon pix!!

—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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[lorna]

Actually the previous Canon pix were retouched with Photoshop Elements II and iPhoto, so it is unfair to compare that with the Sony T30.

However, I would like to figure out how to get clear white white on my Sony T30.



—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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[Sintares]

Have you reset the white balance for the available lighting ..

And yes, many cameras that don't have a manual (point at white paper) WB setting do indeed do a poor job with whites.

Edit **

Ok looked up the review of the T30, (http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/sony/dsc_t30-review/) and indeed it struggles with accurate white, see the standard picture of Micky Mouse.

Also see the review at Imaging_resource which says,


Color balance indoors under incandescent lighting was quite warm with both the Auto and Incandescent white balance modes, though the Incandescent setting resulted in the least strongest cast. That said, the impact of the warm color balance was much more evident on-screen than it was in prints made on the Canon i9900 printer here in our studio. Prints were a little yellowish, but the result was more an impression of the warmth of the original lighting than a defect in the color of the image. I found the best exposure with a +1.0 EV exposure compensation adjustment, about average for this shot, though the white highlights are a bit bright. (The image at +0.7 EV was just too dim overall.) Colors are somewhat dark and yellow here, making the blue flowers very dark and purplish. (A very common outcome for this shot.) Our test lighting for this shot is a mixture of 60 and 100 watt household incandescent bulb, a pretty yellow light source, but a very common one in typical home settings here in the US.


http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/T30/T30A5.HTM

[lorna]

Dear Sintares...
I copied your answer down for reference. I guess, then, it is not my imagination that the white looks warmish rather than true white. Although I would prefer slightly warmish to slightly coolish, I would rather have dead on white. :confused:



—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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[Sintares]

Very few cameras without manual white balance would come close especially under household lighting.

Normally I would say just use Picasa which is freeware to quickly correct the white point, but thats PC only I think, though you may have software on the Mac to allow windows programs to run ?

Otherwise, I am not sure what software is available for Macs.

I assume there is a Mac version of Photoshop, but thats expensive so is there a Mac version of Photoshop Elements which I assume would also be able to color correct photos?

[lorna]

Sony DSC-T30 / Macintosh OS X

Sintares, I was re-reading some stats on my Sony DSC-T30 and saw that part about setting for different kinds of lighting. I had forgotten all about that (because this camera is only a week old for me). I see now that there is a setting for fluorescent, which is the light in my kitchen where the photos were taken. I would like to upload it but don't know if I can do it here in my post.



—Lorna
http://web.mac.com/lorna6
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