Download from camera to iPhoto or Photos

Until yesterday I could download the photos on my digital camera to iPhoto. My Mac has now done an update & installed Photos & when I plug the sync lead in from the camera it shows the new photos in the preview pane but when I try to download I get an error saying they are in an unrecognisable format. They are in jpeg format the same as they were before.
I've managed to download the same photos onto a Windows 8.1 laptop & email to my Mac. I saved them on an external drive then dragged them to Photos where they can be opened, but Photos will not let me download directly.
Can anybody help as I'm lost now! Before you get too technical I'm still adapting to a Mac from years of using Windows so it takes a while to find some things!!

I think it probably is either the memory card or the camera playing up as I connected up my other camera & it loaded fine. Thank you for your help.

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