How do I move my photos from my digital camera to my computer?

How do I move my photos from my digital camera to my computer?

Mark Comon (Vice President, Paul's Photo, Torrance, CA) gives expert video advice on: How do I move my photos from my digital camera to my computer?

There's two basic ways to do it. The camera manufacturer wants you to plug the camera in via a USB cable and download them that way. Nobody in the digital camera arena does it that way. All professionals, all experts recommend that you physically take the memory card out of the camera and then plug it into a device called a card reader. When you plug the memory card into the card reader, the computer will generally ask you, "I see new things here, what do you want me to do with them?" Move it to the hard drive, view it, it just depends on the software you have. But moving the pictures from the memory card to the computer via a card reader is the simplest, easiest and most effective way to store your digital pictures on your computer.