System and method for accessing data of a digital camera from a personal computer

A digital photographic system comprising:

• (a) a digital camera having memory for storing digital images captured by the camera;
• (b) a personal computer having an operating system and a communication port;
• (c) means, disposed in said personal computer, for accessing the memory in the digital camera through the communication port to make the memory appear as a disk to the operating system;
• said accessing means including a dynamic file directory for accessing and retrieving a file size from the memory, and a virtual file allocation table for indicating virtual captured image location computed from the file size retrieved by the dynamic file directory for creating the appearance of a file allocation table, which stores a location of recorded datum for ultimately permitting said operating system to access the captured images, wherein the virtual file allocation table includes correlating captured image location to a captured image by adding each file size corresponding to a captured image that precedes a desired image to be retrieved for determining the captured image location.