IPhone cannot be recognized as Camera in Windows Explorer

I have Vista 64 SP2 and installed the latest iTune 8.2.1.6. iPhone can be recognized in iTune with no problem. However, since I would like to load the photos from iPhone to my computer, I found out that there is no "Digital Camera" device in the explorer as expected.
I tried to reinstalled iTune and it doesn't work. In the Device Manager, the iPhone is recognized under Universal Serial Bus controllers named "Apple Mobile Device USB Driver". I checked other places like under Portable Devices but it's not there.
Then I noticed that the only way for my PC to recognize iPhone as camera and hence I can view and download the photos is after I uninstall "Apple Mobile Device Support". Then the iPhone will be shown up under Portable Devices in Device Manager as "Apple iPhone" However, iTune will stop recognize the iPhone.
So, does anyone experience the same problem? This is basically either (1) iTune recognize iPhone or (2) Windows recognize iPhone, but not both at the same time. Please suggest any potential cause for this issue as I am running out of any idea...

To be more precies, after i uninstall Apple Mobile Device Service, I will get the following error when I plug in my iPhone: "This iPhone cannot be used because the required software is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install the 64-bit version of iTunes". Of course I tried that and it fixed the iTunes issue, but then now the PC not recognized the iPhone as a camera...

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