Items on desktop

Hello, I recently purchased an imac and when I attached a digital camera through the usb there was not an icon on the desktop for the camera. The only way I can get to the photos is through iphoto which I do not want to use. On my old mac whenever I attached a camera to the computer it put an icon on the desktop that allowed me to get to the camera card similar to if you put in a cd or flash drive.
Is this just a matter of changing some preferences? Thanks.

A number of options/ideas/suggestions.
1. Click the desktop to activate finder if it is not already active. Click the finder menu in the menu bar and choose preferences. Under the general tab, make sure under the heading "Show these items on the Desktop" that the external disks box is checked. If this does not work, also check the CD DVD's and iPods box.
2. If it is still not on the desktop, open a finder window and see if it appears under the devices section of the sidebar. If it doesn't, we are into different issues.
3. If the above don't work, there may be a setting in the camera to change. You must have it on disk mode not print mode or anything else. Depending on the make and model I may be able to walk you through doing this. If the same camera showed up on other Mac Desktop's, then I don't believe this would be the case.
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