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Can anyone tell me what to install in order to hook 5D to Vista?

I do NOT want a dozen Canon apps! All I want from Canon is:

1 - DPP 3.0 (I have it)
2 - Some way to get images from the camera onto my PC uswing the USB cable.

I want NO mess of 100's of megabytes of bloatware and tasks including zoom-this-and-that, utilities, thingamajoigs - just a simple single way to get images onto my Vista PC!

Any and all ideas very gratefully received.

Michael
 
Petteri,

Card reader is slow - up to 60 minutes after a 2GB shoot.

Also, constantly removing/insrting the CF card cannot be good for long term life of camera. As an engineer I have seen too many bad contacts in my life. At least the USB connector is meant to be inserted repeatedly, and had fewer contacts...

Michael
 
Up to 60 minutes fro 2 GB? I think this is not the case normaly. You either have some old card reader or older PC with USB 1.x - USB 2.0 is waaay faster...
 
You may need to switch communcations in the menu to PTP mode (forgot the details) but it worked fine on mine before I installed the new Canon software. I had no problem at all seeing it as a drive.

Rich
 
mwillems said:
Petteri,

Card reader is slow - up to 60 minutes after a 2GB shoot.
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Sixty minutes??? What kind of card reader are you talking about?

Phil tested the 5D's USB transfer rate at 2.5 MB/second, whereas a FireWire card reader clocks at 6.9 MB/second and a PCMCIA adapter at 11.1 MB second. Even a lowly USB2.0 card reader beats the 5D, at 3.5 MB/second.

(Out of curiosity, I just timed the one I'm using; it took about five minutes to transfer a full 2GB card of pictures from the card to the computer. That's about 6.65 MB/second. I'm using a USB2.0 reader; I guess it's faster than the one Phil used, since it's close to the FireWire one in speed. Anyway, that makes it nearly three times faster than the 5D.)
mwillems said:
Also, constantly removing/insrting the CF card cannot be good for
long term life of camera. As an engineer I have seen too many bad
contacts in my life. At least the USB connector is meant to be
inserted repeatedly, and had fewer contacts...
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So is the CF card interface.

On my several years at DPReview, I've heard of about three people having problems with the CF card contacts -- a bent pin, or something like that, yet most of us swap cards and use card readers and/or portable hard disks.

Seriously, use a card reader; it's by far the fastest and least fussy way of solving this particular problem.

Petteri
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Rich,

I installed the Canon Vista driver, but even with that done, when I plug it in it is seen by the PC, sure, and the tray show it - but "my computer" does not show it and I do not see it as a drive. I wish.

Petteri, it's not the PC (a new thinkpad), it may be the CF card reader, sure.
 
Well, carrying a card reader is more fuss than a cable (which I also use for my phone and TomTom GPS already).....
 
I use a SanDisk multi card reader. It will read just about anything. It comes with software, but you do not have to install it.

As for speed, I havnt done a 2 GB shoot, but I have done almost 1 GB and it was no where near 60 min with USB 2.0. It was resonably fast.
If your computer has USB 1.0, it's going to be slow regardless.

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Oddly enough I have the same PC. 1680x1050. Nice.

And I installed a clean Vista business. Result, I went from 80 tasks at rest to 50, and from 1 GB used RAM to 600 MB used RAM. And from a crash a week to no crashes so far...
 
Actuaqllyt the PC card adapter is even slower for me. I did not think these were actice devices but they must be, I guess. I can try to get a new one
 
Pretty neat machine - as a ThinkPad user since the first ThinkPad I'm imprerssed. Lenovo seems to be doing a great job. On top of T60p widescreen we also got a couple of X60s - a very, very sweet ultraportable.

Yeah...some services can be disabled on every laptop but you can do it w/o reninstall - via administartive tools and poking around the registry. OTOH it's good to have the Lenovo updater up/running - among other updates there is a pretty critical BIOS update for this model (mine was made on 3/16/07 and it did need the update.)
 
I've been holding back on that one... risky upgrade I'd have thought.

But yes, nice machine. Now if only I could get it to see my 5D properly.
 
...it's risky not to update your BIOS. They don't issue those updates to keep themselves warm; there are always real issues that are being addressed. At that low a level, they can cause real mayhem.

Obviously, it makes sense to wait a few weeks so the impatient folks have time to flush out any new bugs that may surface.

Petteri
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mwillems said:
Actuaqllyt the PC card adapter is even slower for me. I did not
think these were actice devices but they must be, I guess. I can
try to get a new one
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Mine works great even on a fairly old laptop. I used to carry a reader with me but added the PCMIA and eliminated cables, etc.---and though I haven't timed it, believe its as fast at least.

I do use a USB2 reader on my main PC---and, like Petteri, find it very fast.

Diane
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mwillems said:
Actuaqllyt the PC card adapter is even slower for me. I did not
think these were actice devices but they must be, I guess. I can
try to get a new one
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Are there different generations of PC Card Card Readers? If so, I'm willing to invest...

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item (1143)-SDDR-64-SanDisk_Ultra_PC_Card_Adapter.aspx

"Ultra" vs regular?

Does anyone know if there's a difference? When I had a P+S, I used a PC card reader and transfer rates were slow.... but looks like the technology has improved?
 
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