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Title: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: mikeosbornma on May 29, 2003, 01:46:39 pm

I can't seem to connect to my camera via MC9. Is there a trick to setting this up or should it just work out of the box.

Anyone had luck with this, and in particular, the Canon A4?

Thanks,

Mike

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: JimH on May 29, 2003, 02:56:53 pm

Does the camera show up as a drive under Windows?

If so, can you find it under "CD, DVD, and Handhelds" in the tree of MC?

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: mikeosbornma on May 29, 2003, 03:19:36 pm

No, unfortunately it doesn't show up as a drive. Am I out of luck?

-Mike

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: JimH on May 29, 2003, 03:39:43 pm

For now.  Any details you can provide on the camera might help us solve it in the future.

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: mikeosbornma on May 29, 2003, 04:44:13 pm

All I can tell you is that its a Canon PowerShot A40, and I've always had to use a software app to get to the file on the camera (it doesn't appear as a drive to Windows).

Hope this helps.

-Mike

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: Cmagic on May 29, 2003, 09:40:42 pm

Hi Mike,

As for Canon cameras, they don't show up as a removable drive under windows. In fact you can install a WIA driver that should be on your 'Canon solution disk'.
This way, your camera will be recognized as as 'scanner' device by MC (File / Acquire Images...) but I don't recommend to get the pictures from your camera this way for 2 main reasons :
1/ MC will only allow you to get one picture at a time in 'scanner mode'
2/ Even with the option (Image size = Keep the original size) you won't get the exact same file that was captured by your camera (file length is different)

Unfortunately, The way MC does recognizes WIA devices so far (as scanner) is not very convenient for a digital camera. So there is no straigth solution to directly get the pictures from your Canon within MC.

What I personaly do is to use a CompactFlash card reader + a cool download software specialy designed for Canon (and other brand) cameras that also allows renaming from the EXIF info and auto-rotation of images. (downloader from www.breezesys.com)

Hope this help,

Have a nice day,

Christian


C.

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: JimH on May 30, 2003, 04:07:51 am

Christian,
When you do File Acquire Images, and you see "scanner", can you change to "camera" and select the drive?

Title: Re: Canon A40 Digital Camera
Post by: Cmagic on May 30, 2003, 04:19:35 am

Hi Jim,

No you can't. When the Canon WIA driver is installed you can actually see the camera as a scanner but when you switch to camera mode you don't see any drive letters that would correspond to the internal camera flash memory.
That's the way Canon cameras work, you can't use them as removable HD devices unlike Pentax and Sony I think.

later,

Christian