New Mac Air stopped recognizing iPhones as cameras

I bought a Macbook Air (running OS X Mavericks 10.9.4) in mid-June and took it to Europe with me. All was working fine, and I was regularly plugging in my iPhone 5s (as well as my wife's 5s and my daughter's 4) to pull photos into iPhoto. No, we don't use PhotoStream/Cloud, for various reasons.
At some point a few weeks ago, I plugged in my iPhone to upload a new batch of photos, and... well, nothing happened. IPhoto didn't pop up with new images, or any indication that there was a camera roll attached.
I tried with my wife's 5s -- same problem. Nothing appeared.
I tried with my daughter's 4, same problem. Found a couple other people and tried *their* phones. Nothing.
I tried swapping out the cords -- nothing.
I looked online, and saw that using Image Capture was suggested by Apple as a next step -- so I fired that up, but once again, it doesn't see any iPhone as a camera. It just says "No camera or scanner connected."
Yes, the phones ARE recognized in iTunes. It can see it, access it, give all the info, etc. All good there. It just
So it's clear to me that it's NOT any of the iPhones, or the contents of their camera rolls, etc, because it doesn't work with *anyone's* iPhone.
And the fact that it once *did* not that long ago leads me to believe that some setting, somehow, somewhere, got switched. I just have no idea what that setting could be.
I'm a long-time PC user who finally made the jump to Mac and loving many aspects, but my knowledge base on how to get in and fix things is sorely lacking.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi there emg72,
The first troubleshooting steps I would suggest for this issue would be to reset your SMC on your MacBook Air:
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
You may also want to go through some of the suggested troubleshooting steps for addressing a software issue, found here:
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1199
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

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