I seem to be getting into the habit of acquiring older gear and then facing the uphill battle of making it work with more modern equipment. Recently, I wandered into the local pawn shop here in Woodland Park and discovered a used sitting on the shelf. I’d always wanted a DSLR with which to try some astro-imaging but wasn’t willing to shell out the bucks for a new one. So, I laid out the cash and took the 350D home with me to check it out. Did I mention that we moved from Colorado Springs to this spring?

Canon 350d Usb Drivers For Mac Pro

We found ourselves a nice house on an acre with mostly dark skies overhead. You can actually see the Milky Way on moonless nights–completely unlike the washed out urban sky in Colorado Springs. If you noticed that there haven’t been any additions to the ol’ web site for more than a year, now you know why.

It’s a lot of work to get one house ready for sale, sell it, find a new house, buy it, and get moved. Anyway, let me tell you a little bit about the new camera and what it took to get things up and running.

Plugging it in The 350D connects to a PC via USB, just like most cameras made over the past several years. It turns out that the 350D has two communications modes, selectable from its menu: Print/PTP and PC Connection. Counterintuitively, if you want to be able to browse the contents of the 350D’s memory from your PC (like you would a USB thumb drive), the 350D’s communication mode should be set to Print/PTP, not PC Connection (PC Connection mode, as I would learn later, is used for controlling the camera from the PC). Once in the Print/PTP mode and connected via USB (and turned on), Windows 10 detected it, installed drivers for it, and the camera popped up as a device on my PC as expected.

Canon 350d Manual

Now to see if I could find the manual and software it would have come with new. Filling in the Gaps How often do you buy some second-hand gear and get all the accessories that were originally included? Yeah–not very often. My used 350D came with the camera, lens, strap, charger, and battery.

No lens caps, no manual, and no software CD. No problem, right?

We have and, after all. The 350D was released about a decade ago and has long since been replaced by a parade of newer models. Thankfully, software and manuals are still available on. Well, if you look hard enough, anyway. Canon’s support page automatically detects which operating system you’re running and adjusts its list of downloads accordingly. For Windows 10, Canon’s list of drivers and software was pretty slim.

Fortunately, the page allows me to select other operating systems, and selecting Windows 7 gave me a much larger list. From that list I ended up downloading.

Digital Photo Professional 3.14.48 Updater. Picture Style Editor 1.15.20 Updater. PhotoStitch 3.1.23 Updater. ZoomBrowser 6.9.0a Updater Then I switched to the “Brochures and Manuals” portion of the support page and downloaded the manuals for each of these (except PhotoStitch, for which no manual was listed), and for the camera itself. Then I noticed there were manuals for something called “EOS Utility,” which wasn’t listed on the software and drivers page. I found that download by switching the operating system to “Vista”, and downloaded “EOS Utility 2.7.3 Updater”. I also found “EOS USB WIA Driver 6.0.0 for Windows” and downloaded that, too, just in case (more on that later).

I rummaged around a bit more on the support page to see if I’d missed anything, but that seemed to be about it. Now to see if I can get this stuff to install. Getting it all Installed So, what’s with the word “Updater” in the names of all the software I downloaded? Turns out, these installers won’t install the software unless you already have some Canon software installed (from the CD that came with your camera). So, those of us who don’t have the CD are out of luck? Great–what genius thought of that idea?

Fortunately, it’s easy enough to trick the installers into thinking that older versions are installed by creating some entries in the Windows registry. Provides instructions for how to create the registry entries. Actually you dont always have to follow the route of the registry hack. I always used Canon so I have the software yet, moving around, i dont always have the disc at hand. Like you I bought a couple older rebel cameras (one to convert to infrared and another for underwater photography). If you look around the various Canon sites (uk, us, japan etc while similar they are not exactly the same in content) you can find downloadable disk images that will solve the problem.

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