Canon PowerShot A620 fully compatible with OS 10.4.6 and iPhoto 6?

Question

I am about to buy my first digital camera... the Canon A620 looks like the one, but I'm a little confused about whether it's fully compatible with iPhoto 6. The Canon website says (implies, really) that it is, but I've seen some reviews by people who had different experiences. Does anybody in these discussions have this camera? Does it work ok with iPhoto 6?
Thanks. I don't want to make an expensive mistake.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Answer 1

I expect it works perfectly fine. I suggest you use the Canon software to download the pictures from the camera and them import them into iPhoto. You can get the software and the manual at www.powershot.com. The software at the Canon site may be newer than the CD that comes with the camera, too.
In my experience, iPhoto doesn't 'remember' which images you've already downloaded from a camera or a memory card reader. Each time is downloads all of them and then you can pick whether you want to "ignore duplicates". The Canon software shows you thumbnails of all the images and there is a mark on the images you've already downloaded -- you can select just a few images and it only grabs them (and tags that they were downloaded). On my USB 1.1 iMac the latter method is much faster.
Using the Canon software doesn't load the pix into iPhoto -- they're put into a folder and you import into iPhoto afterwards. You might choose to back all the images up to CD from the folders and just import the better photos into iPhoto at this point.
Another route is to use "Image Capture" on the Mac to download the photos. It puts them into a folder, like the Canon software, and it lets you choose just the images you want from an 'icon view'. Again though, it doesn't 'remember' which shots you've already downloaded; only the Canon software does.