Seeing a camera mounting on the desktop

Hi, I've shot a 40 min video with a nikon coolpix but to import it, I've to go through Iphoto. The problem is that the file seems too long to be improted in Iphoto. I'd like to know how to do to see the camera mounting on the desktop in order to get directly from it the avi file.
May be you have another way to do it without opening Iphoto.
Thanx
Steve

As iBod pointed out Image Capture preferences determines what happens when you attach a camera to your Mac. Just like Safari determines your default browser.
I like to download my camera to a new desktop folder using image capture. I can then open iPhoto and select what I want to go to iPhoto. I keep the original download folders in a separate folder in Pictures to backup.
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