Hi,

When I try to get my images from my camera/card and into LR3, I get the message "No camera found". This happens all the time. I can, however, get the images onto my computer by using Adobe Bridge. My camera is a D700 and I am using a MAC.

Any thoughts?

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From within LR you should be able to do a "file/import photos" and then select a source. Are you saying when you do that you don't see your camera or your CF card? Do you see them in finder?

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Hi Charlie,

The message is "No camera found". I don't see my camera or CF card in finder, but when I click on Bridge and got "Get photos from camera", there they are!

Pat

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Patricia, check this dialog (I gave an answer, not the right one, later provided the right answer)
http://www.nikonians.org/forums/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=319&topic_id=6545&mesg_id=6545&listing_type=read_new

Camera USB has to be set to PTP for LR3. Mass Storage = seen in Finder and Bridge.

Hello,

I looked for PTP & USB in my D700 manual and couldn't find it. I called Nikon and was told to go to my set-up menu, but found there was no USB setting in Set-up. I was on hold forever so I hung up and made a second call. I was then told that on the D700 it is not a camera setting that is preventing LR3 from recognizing my camera and that I should call Adobe!

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Hi again, Charlie

I tried your suggestion of doing a "file/import photos". My D700 comes up as a source (and I was able to import my images), but strangely, it doesn't appear in Finder.

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Are you using a USB Hub or the keyboard USB port?

Then try one of the USB ports on the computer system.

Have you tried a different USB cable?

Have you tired a card reader?

I prefer a card reader since there is no drain on the camera's battery and you can use the camera during the transfer.

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I am using the keyboard USB port.

I tried a different USB cable.

I have tried a card reader.


Pat

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Pat, have you tried a USB port on your Mac? The keyboard port may not have enough power.

p240:
"Connect the camera directly to the computer; do not connect the
cable via a USB hub or keyboard."

Card reader didn't work either?? I guess that might prove that the keyboard isn't to be used.

Hi Pat,

the keyboard-USB's on Macs are terrible to use. Indeed not enough power. Most of the time they don't work when I connect something to them. I have decided not to use them anymore and always use the USB-ports on the Mac. I use a USB-hub for most of the connections and use a dedicated one on the Mac itself for my card reader.

Marco

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I think I misspoke when I said I used the keyboard USB. I am using a MacBook Pro, so what I am actually plugging into is the USB on my laptop.

The message I was getting "No camera was found" was coming from something called CameraWindow - a Canon utility - and that had nothing to do with the issue.

My computer is not recognizing my D700 as a "mass storage device". When I plug into my computer, it is not recognizing my camera at all (I never get the bar on top saying "From: D700, but strangely, it did at one time). When I go to File/Import Photos, it will import the images from my camera or card.

One more thing: the D700 doesn't show up in Finder either.

Pat

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Make sure your USB cord is fully plugged in.

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Others seem to be having the same problem you're having:
http://www.danedwardsphoto.com/2009/06/10/nikon-d700-has-no-usb-setting-for-mass-storage/

dpreview forum:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=28800439
"...I'm shocked to now learn that Nikon removed the 'USB Mass Storage' option from the D700 (it's in the earlier D### cameras).

Having to plod our way through a front-end software package instead of copying exactly the files we want in Windows/Finder is really, really annoying.

I can only hope that in the next firmware for the D700 Nikon will correct this odd flaw."

If the card reader does not work, I would expect a bad USB port.

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