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Old November 29th 06, 07:43 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.apps,rec.photo.digital.point+shoot
Erik Richard Sørensen
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Default Minimal software to download Canon PowerShot to Mac?

Hei Greg

G.T. wrote:
Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
As I've now written more times, I haven't yet seen a Canon - or Nikon,
Panasonic, Kyocera or Olympus made camera - that can't be used on any
system from Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2, OS X 10.0.x to 10.4.x as well as Windows
98SE to XP without installing any extra software. - They do work 'out
of the box'!


My Digital Rebel and my A70 do either Normal=TWAIN or PTP, they do not
do USB mass storage.


Are you sure that you have the latest internal Canon firmware/software
in the camera?

If I set my Olympus or Medion to PTP, it also results in no connection
to any computer - Mac or Windows. The camera _MUST_ be set to "PC Mode"
picture transfer.

That's probably why Canon says (regarding the Rebel XT):

"To connect your compatible Canon digital camera with a Windows XP
pre-installed computer via USB cable, you need to install the
appropriate USB WIA driver on your computer."


Hm, it might be this "...a Windows XP pre-installed..." that is the
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culprit. All of the Windows users that I know, who are using Canon
digicams are all using full retail installs of WinXP.

cheers, Erik Richard

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