Can't import photos from i phone

I cannot import photos from my iphone into iphoto. It is saying they are unrecognized files

It's a shame Apple can't solve this. I used this work around: (NOTE: make sure to Unmount iPhone so that iPhone does NOT appear in finder window. Then close iPhoto and proceed as follows)
1) Open Applications
2) Open Image Capture
3) Connect iPhone
4) At the bottom, "Import To" drop down create subfolder under Pictures folder
5) Select "Import All" or individually select items; To watch progress see the status bar at the bottom or  open subfolder you just created in Finder.
6) After completion, quit Image Capture
7) Disconnect iPhone
8) Open iPhoto
9) Import from subfolder created from Image Capture
Speculation:
a) Some files get bad info if they are on the iPhone too long.
b) Some files are too large for transfer rate when it says "Preparing to Import". My 2.82GB .MOV imported just fine after moving it to my hard drive with Image Capture.

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