How the heck do you do the registering of the MK2
Yes I got the CD's that came with the MK2
Yes I hook the MK2 to the PC via usb
Yes I read the manual
Yes I'm a dummy
How do I do the Personal function settings in the camera menu
Ahhhhhhhh _poke_

With regard to setting the personal functions, hook of the camera to the computer via the firewire cable (not the USB). Turn on the camera.
Open EVU. On the pull down Option menu, select Camera Settings. Within
that choice, you will find the Personal Functions.
Les

Firewire cable
O boy, will have to get a fire card then.
Thanks

Yes, you need a FW card (or a Mac =)). The USB port on the 1D2 is only for direct printing. The FW port is for everything else - camera settings, tethered usage, and image download.

- Stan

And even then sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Apparently the firewire drivers in this set of software were not ready for prime time.

Nill
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It is ridiculous that the 1Dx series does not allow setting of the PF values on the body. It was understandable in the days of EOS 1v, but not an excuse by the time the 1D MKII was introduced.

EB

Would you say I need one like this FireWire 800 card
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It would work, but you don't need Firewire 800 (1394b) for the 1D MKII. It might be useful for external drives. Any $20 Firewire card will do. Doesn't your computer have a 1394a port, or is it an older model?

EB

Nill Toulme wrote:
And even then sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Apparently the firewire drivers in this set of software were not ready for prime time.

Nill
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www.toulme.net

With the 1Ds, I had problems with it being unrecognized about 30% of the time.

Gunny, you might want to check and see if your MB offers support for firewire. If so, you can just add a front input(easy if you have an open drive bay) and connect to the MB.

Gunny,
NO, you should not use a Firewire 800 card. The Firewire 800 spec is not backwards compatible to Firewire 400, which is what the Canon pro bodies use. Just get a cheap (~$30) standard firewire card.

sjarriel wrote:
The Firewire 800 spec is not backwards compatible to Firewire 400.

No, it should be compatible if the FireWire HBA supports both, which almost all do. However, the correct cable or adapter (9 pin to 6 pin or 9 pin to 4 pin) must be used. I run a mixed system with no problems.

EB

NO, you should not use a Firewire 800 card. The Firewire 800 spec is not backwards compatible to Firewire 400, which is what the Canon pro bodies use. Just get a cheap (~$30) standard firewire card.

This is not true at all. The FW 800 spec is very well fully backwards compatible to FW 400. You are confusing compatibility with identical plugs. If you have an adapter cable/plug, you can connect a FW400 device to a FW800 port and vice versa. Of course in that case the speed will be only FW400.

The bigger problem is getting the adapter cable / plug. And that may not be worth the hassle.

- Stan

it looks like the card has 2 firewire 800 and 1 firewire 400 connections

Hey Gunny,

I did the same thing... couldn't figure out why the stupid USB port
wasn't being looked at!

Went to CompUSA & got one of their $30 Firewire cards for my desktop..
works great. Comes with an additional cable.

Got one of the PCMCIA versions for my Dell laptop, and although it
'sees' the camera, it can't connect. Does work on other laptops tho,
so it's gotta be a Dell issue.

PSCS works pretty well in acquiring images, but can't seem to do
RAW. Like somebody else said.. don't think the driver is quite ready
for prime time.

It does xfer the files pretty fast... maybe as fast as my reader with the
1g microdrive.

Have fun

Tim

www.hillcountryphotos.com

I have an Lacie 320GB Big Disk and I needed a FireWire 800/IEEE 1394b PCI Host Card Adapte I got to take advantage of the high speed of the Lacia downloads

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