Mountain Lion thinks camera is a "package"

So bought latest MBP 13" when it came out. Worked fine. Got my free upgrade to Mountain Lion and installed it.
Nnder lion, when I connected my panasonic video camera I could go to finder, browse the camera (it appeared as a disk) and I could copy my video files over and preprocess them using ClipWrap (AVCHD->MOV) and import them to iMovie.
Under mountain lion, the file system of the camera is not dirtectly visible. It sees the folders as "packages". I found I can still access the files, but I have to right click and choose "show package contents" to navigate to the files on the camera in finder.
Any body else? Ideas?

Apple uses packages to keep people from tampering with things in folders that aren't meant to be tampered with.
In the case of a camera, if you start renaming files or moving them around, the camera might not be able to access the images anymore (depends on the camera). You sound like you know what you're doing, but I guarantee you if my mother got a look at her camera disk, she would start renaming files, deleting XML files, etc. And I once had to help someone who had decided to "organize" her iPhoto library folder (Apple has since turned that into a package too).
The basic idea is that a novice user like my mother will have her files protected and access everything using iPhoto or other software, but a "power user" like you will know to right-click to retain the same access that you had before. It's the best of both worlds, if you don't mind the extra click.
You can actually change any old folder into a package - just add ".pkg" to the name of the folder. To change it back into a folder, remove the ".pkg" - though I don't recommend trying that on your camera.

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