Canon 10D drivers for Vista

[johnmc]

After 'upgrading' my PC to Windows Vista I found that there were no drivers available for my (apparently 'prehistoric') 10D suitable for versions of Windows later than XP!

A thorough Google only turned up lots of reports of this problem, but no solutions. After a bit of experimentation I managed to get things working - for anyone else having similar problems, here's the solution:

Download the windows XP drivers from Canon

Run the .exe which will extract them to a folder

Plug your camera in and let Windows fail to find a driver (takes a little time) - then select the Advanced option to find one and specify the folder where you extracted the XP drivers - make sure that the "Search Subfolders" is ticked.

Let Vista do it's thing and voila! your 10D is now working under vista - at least enough for the EOS Utility to download the shots - I haven't tried the remote shooting etc. just yet but will keep you posted.

Keep in mind that Canon don't actually support this and I'm not guaranteeing it in any way - but it worked for me

Hope this is of help to someone out there

Cheers

John

[DaveB]

Why do you need drivers? Only for remote shooting and for setting Owner info and date/time in the camera, surely.

Nice find on getting that to work: well done!
But I do feel obliged to point out that people should really be using a dedicated card reader.

Camera as reader:

• Needs funky drivers and Canon software to get at the photos.
• Is very slow at transferring files.
• While working uses battery in the camera.
• Cameras are not designed to be robust card readers.
  It's like using a Rolls to get the shopping - they don't cope too well with bumping into trolleys.

USB/Firewire CF reader:

• No drivers required on any modern operating system.
• Card appears as a normal drive: directly accessible to any and all software.
• Much faster transfers than the camera.
• Reader costs $10-$50. Compare to the cost of a camera.
  When your card reader dies you'll only be out a few bucks.

Cheers

[johnmc]

Why do you need drivers? Only for remote shooting and for setting Owner info and date/time in the camera, surely.

It's a stop gap until I get a replacement CF reader - my last one (which did just about every card format available) gave up on me recently