No camera can be seen when i hook up to windows 8

Bypass he easy share and use a SD card reader hooked via USB. The SD readers are on eBay and very cheap.

Are you saying the supplied software does not install in Windows 8? Being as the camera uses SD memory card, SDHC memory card, SDXC memory card, then Windows 8 will be able to read those cards. As for which cameras are compatible with Windows 8, they all should be.

Best write up I have seen so far for Installing Windows 8 on the SL10

The dark spots is seen in your camera because inside the camera (LENS) some dust/particles may stick.You can check it out by removing the camera and clean all the lens and the housing (cover) which is seen straight to the camera(lens).If not solve the last thing is to change the CAMERA (lens).Good luck

If your computer has a firewire port on it you should use that to capture the Digital-8 footage.

Yes the camera sure is compatible with the Mac. I can only refer you to your manual as I'm afraid I've had NO experience with the Mac. I haven't even seen one for about 8 years. We are all Windows dummies around here sorry.

This model has iLink: IEEE 1394 firewire port. If you don't have a firewire card, you can probably find one pretty cheap on the internet (try ebay).
Windows has movie maker, which when the camera is connected, will allow you to capture the video from the camera on the comptuer, although there is no DVD burner software at least on the XP version (not sure about Vista). I use Nero for the whole process: capture, edit, burn to DVD.

make sure camera is on BEFORE hooking it up.
also go to start menu, my computer and it should be seen there as well.

Are you sure that the software is designed to work on such an old version of Windows ?

Check with JVC and your manual to ensure that this camera can be used as a still camera when connected to the PC. I think even some high end cameras do not have this functionality.
You don't say which version of Windows you are running.

I would check with JVC's web site or on your driver disc to see that there are WDM / TWAIN drivers to allow your GZ-MG130 to be seen as an imaging device in Windows.


Mike