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368 The “Setup” (Toolbox Icon) Menu Settings

But what’s MTP? The simple answer is it was designed for beginners to
allow whatever you plugged your camera into to provide intelligent options
based on the fact that it knows you’ve plugged a camera in. For example, if
you used the MENU  2  Specify Printing feature (Section 8.10),
when you plugged your camera directly into your printer the printer would
see that it was a camera that had certain pictures slated for printing.
Microsoft also has developed new features in Windows 7 that provide
context-sensitive options for you depending on what has been plugged in
(many provided by the device manufacturers themselves). You can read
more about this feature at http://tinyurl.com/y82pz9x.
Just for fun I tried hooking up the camera to my Windows 7 machine while
in MTP mode. The first difference I noticed is that while I could still view
and drag/drop my pictures to my hard drive, I couldn’t delete my images
4
off the memory card . It also took twice as long to import my images and it
would only import the .mts AVCHD movie files. This may or may not be a
big deal for you, but I always prefer the more straightforward options,
which is why I recommend this feature be set to “Mass Storage”.

4 (Well, there was an obscure way to delete them but it’s not ideal. First I’d have to allow
Windows to import all the files off the memory card, and beforehand specify “Delete after
import”, which is not the best time to delete images. (The best time to delete images off the
card is after you’ve made a backup of everything you’ve shot that day.) Anyway, this
feature is not for me.

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