Camera to computer download question

[Highsurf03]

Hi -

My wife and I want to buy a digital camera for our grand-daughter. Her mother is saying that we must buy one that is "compatible with San Disc technology." They have MAC computers in their home.

She is saying - and I think that she is wrong - that they have a San Disk photo editing program and that is the only thing they can use to download pictures from the camera to the computer. I have been to the San Disk company's website and they don't show any editing programs. They show only the products I am familar with: flash drives, memory chips, etc.

I've never heard of anything like this. Every digital camera I've ever had has come with both a download and an editing program - and everyone one of them has either been applicable in both the MAC and PC formats or it came with two CD-Roms - one for MACs and one for PCs - from which to load the programs on to my computer.

Have I missed out on technological advance - or is my stubborn daughter just wrong?

Thanks in advance for whatever you might be able to tell me.

Gary

[Photo-John]

She's wrong. You can buy any camera and any memory card and use it with any computer. In fact, many of us on this site never connect our cameras to the computer. I only use card readers to download my photos. And regardless of the computer you're using, anything current will have a built-in program for downloading and managing photos. All Macs include iPhoto and you don't have to have any special camera, memory card, or software to use it.