ARGH!! Is there any way to directly download from a Canon Rebel to a computer?

[intheflow]

My card reader dies on me lat week so I bought a cable to replace a cable I'd lost that I thought was about downloading my photos. It was--but only to a printer to print from the card. WTF, Canon?

I've looked through the manual but it really looks like the cable only allows the camera to talk to a printer. In the hopes that I'm doing it wrong, I'm posting here to see if anyone else has encountered this--and if I'm just missing something obvious and can actually access my frigging photos.

Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?

[teamster633]

1. The cable that connected your card reader to your computer could well work.

I rarely make a direct connection between camera and computer, but the cables are interchangeable (I have a Canon 50D). You might have to download a driver from the Canon site so your computer will recognize your camera.

[alfredo]

2. If he has installed the Canon software, it should download

through that. If it is a Mac, iPhoto will handle the download.

[intheflow]

3. Sadly, no, iPhoto doesn't work here.

For whatever stupid-assed reason, my Canon Rebel model does not have the capability to download directly to computer, though I can directly print from the camera. I found that in a white paper on the Canon site. Serious, Canon: WTF?! So I'm off to find a card reader.

[alfredo]

5. Card readers should be cheap. That's weird that they

won't allow direct download.
BTW, what model you have?

[intheflow]

7. I bought a card reader today.

Went to a few places and the cheapest one I could find was $22 which I don't really think is all that cheap but beats the $50 POS the first place I went to tried to sell me. :-/

My camera is a Canon EOS Rebel XT. Here's the white paper that told me the whole, sad truth. :(
(.pdf file, p. 23, last paragraph)

[alfredo]

8. On page 22 it says:

Three interface terminals are provided on the side of the body. The EOS Digital Rebel XT camera has a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, mini-B connector that transfers data from the camera to a computer approximately ten times faster than the USB 1.1 connector on the EOS Digital Rebel camera. Video output is provided for both NTSC and PAL, and provision is made for the RS-60E3 Remote Switch.

But then, as you said, page 23 seems to contradict the above.

The EOS Digital Rebel XT camera also has the same Direct Print or Easy Printing feature found in the latest PowerShot cameras. (Unlike the PowerShot cameras, the XT does not have a feature to transfer images directly to a personal computer.)*


It shows the connector here, and talks about transfer speed.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS350D/page3.asp

*Could it mean that you have to have software like the Canon DPP software to communicate with the camera?

iPhoto or similar software is needed to download to my computer, otherwise it won't work. The supplied Canon Software will work too. (Canon DPP) Their editing software sucks.

[intheflow]

9. I do have that port on my camera.

It's what I plugged the cable I bought yesterday plugged into. It should have popped up as a drive, but nothing registered. The photo you linked to is the exact same port but it's on a 350D, not a Rebel XT. So it looks like they put a dummy port on the XT (probably to save the cost of manufacturing a new faceplate for this one camera) and saved the download-direct-to-computer feature for the higher end cameras.

[alfredo]

10. 350D is the Euro version I guess.

[hippywife]

4. Get a USB cable.

When you get the camera plugged into the computer, go to explore and pick the drive with the camera on it. That should do it. :hi:

[intheflow]

6. No, I bought a USB cable and it did not show up as a drive on my Mac.

Didn't show any additional drives whatsoever. I found a white paper on the Canon website that actually said that my model (and apparently my model only) doesn't have the capability to talk with a computer--though it's more than happy to talk to a printer. :banghead:

[alfredo]

13. Mine doesn't either, it just launches iPhoto. That's the only

place it shows. Did you have to install drivers?

[Juneboarder]

11. My printer has a spot to stick the card in

and then just uploads to the hard drive... It was the cheapest Dell printer I could find...

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I'm really surprised at this, InTheFlow.

I have a cable that downloads from my cameras directly to the computer. I can't imagine that the Rebel wouldn't have come with something that would do the same.