I'd happily retire the old Win XP box I've dedicated for use with the 1Ds2 and replace it with a newer Mac if I was sure I could run the EOS utility on it and get it to connect to a 1Ds2.
The poster in your link was using v2.8.1 of the EOS Utility.
Anyone here try that one with a 1Ds2 on Lion?
I had the same problem with a 1Ds MKII I bought and tried to connect on my Win 7. Connected it to a Mac at work and it worked fine. Don't know anything about the Mac except that it had one of the newer version of EOS Utility on it.
One of the issues with operating the EOS utilities are that two drivers are involved. The one driver that lets you download images just fine. The other driver is used for remote triggering and for the body settings. It is the one that is not compatible with 64 bit. You can run the utility, see the screen, download images, but you cannot access the camera settings or remotely release the shutter with 64 bit.
aborr wrote:
You're right about newer versions of the EOS Utility. I use an older version (2.6) for tethered shooting. They dropped support for the 1D2, 1Ds2, and the (original) 5D in recent versions.
I've only used the 1Ds2 with XP, but there was some discussion a while back in the 1Ds2 thread on the POTN forum about using 32 bit Vista, and at least one member said he was using his 1Ds2 with it successfully. That sounded reasonable to me - a lot of XP drivers work with 32 bit Vista. I don't know about the 32 bit version of Windows 7. Some people on POTN claim it's possible, but I've never tried it myself. I do know first hand that it doesn't work in "32 bit compatibility mode" on 64bit versions of Windows 7.
Update; Well i received my firewire cord, went to my friend's house who has Vista 64bit with firewire port and we could not get it to work.Canon does not provide a driver for that OS.Will have to find a XP computer somewhere.
-Jim
Jim Schemel wrote:
Update; Well i received my firewire cord, went to my friend's house who has Vista 64bit with firewire port and we could not get it to work.Canon does not provide a driver for that OS.Will have to find a XP computer somewhere.
-Jim
It will also work with older versions of OS 10 (Mac). I kept my 2003 (made in USA!) Mac G4 tower for that purpose with OS 9.2, 10.3 and 10.4 installed on multiple drives. Not uncommon to find these older computers still running in school labs.
For those Mac Lion users - partitioning your HD and installing Snow Leopard (or Leopard, Tiger, etc.) for a dual-boot system is really simple, and quick. Just a few mouse clicks and ~10 minutes to create a new partition (the smallest my 500GB drive would allow was ~34GB), and then ~20 minutes or so to install the earlier OS. Just be sure not to copy/transfer all your programs/docs/files to the new partition. All you need to transfer are the user settings. To select the alternate partition, just hold down the 'option' key during system startup. Here's a link to download EOS Utility 2.8.1:
