Software for Canon Powershot G6

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Why not just install the cd software/twain driver onto
the laptop?

You could also buy a card reader, which will install a
driver into Win2000 that makes the memory card
appear in My Computer/Explorer as a removable
drive.

<mikenews@5circles.com> wrote in message news:1118540275.809636.185890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I have a Canon Powershot G6 that I bought a couple of months ago and
> haven't got completely familiar with. I've installed the full software
> on a computer at home, but I'm on the road and want to download to a
> laptop, then remove the images from the camera. The laptop doesn't
> have the Canon software installed. I think the software I was using was
> ZoomBrowser.
>
> I was hoping the the camera would just appear to the laptop (running
> Windows 2000) as a disk drive, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
> The only things I could find on the Canon site for the G6 are the Twain
> drivers and updates.
>
> Is there any way to get the full software, or any free software that
> can download? Otherwise I'm stuck till I get home and can't take any
> more pictures.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>

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"Tony Hwang" <dragon40@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:8EMqe.1649617$Xk.1297604@pd7tw3no...
> mikenews@5circles.com wrote:
>
> > I have a Canon Powershot G6 that I bought a couple of months ago and
> > haven't got completely familiar with. I've installed the full software
> > on a computer at home, but I'm on the road and want to download to a
> > laptop, then remove the images from the camera. The laptop doesn't
> > have the Canon software installed. I think the software I was using was
> > ZoomBrowser.
> >
> > I was hoping the the camera would just appear to the laptop (running
> > Windows 2000) as a disk drive, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
> > The only things I could find on the Canon site for the G6 are the Twain
> > drivers and updates.
> >
> > Is there any way to get the full software, or any free software that
> > can download? Otherwise I'm stuck till I get home and can't take any
> > more pictures.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
> >
> Hi,
> Demo version from Adobe?

Huh? The guy has a G6. What's Adobe got to do with it?

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On 11 Jun 2005 18:37:55 -0700, mikenews@5circles.com wrote:

> Is there any way to get the full software, or any free software that
> can download? Otherwise I'm stuck till I get home and can't take any
> more pictures.

Your laptop probably has a slot that will accept a PCMCIA adapter
that you can pop the CF card into. I don't think that special
drivers beyond what is provided by MS with Windows are needed to be
able to read from (and write to) the card, and adapters are pretty
cheap and available almost everywhere.

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All you need is the Twain driver. Zoombrowser is a big download, some people
like it, other don't. With the Twain driver, you can aquire into any photo
software program (Irfanview is free). Not sure how win2000 handles, but in
xp camera shows up as an icon. However, windows explorer seems to only show
the image files, not the canon directory structure, so it's no quite the
same as a card reader, something which in practice is probably a 'don't
care' type of situation.
Dave Cohen
"ASAAR" <caught@22.com> wrote in message
news:8blna19plqs4l4sku34ejka6h75vl8k1a5@4ax.com...
> On 11 Jun 2005 18:37:55 -0700, mikenews@5circles.com wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to get the full software, or any free software that
>> can download? Otherwise I'm stuck till I get home and can't take any
>> more pictures.
>
> Your laptop probably has a slot that will accept a PCMCIA adapter
> that you can pop the CF card into. I don't think that special
> drivers beyond what is provided by MS with Windows are needed to be
> able to read from (and write to) the card, and adapters are pretty
> cheap and available almost everywhere.
>

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:33:15 -0400, ASAAR wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:15:43 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:
>
>> All you need is the Twain driver. Zoombrowser is a big download, some people
>> like it, other don't. With the Twain driver, you can aquire into any photo
>> software program (Irfanview is free). Not sure how win2000 handles, but in
>> xp camera shows up as an icon. However, windows explorer seems to only
>> show the image files, not the canon directory structure, so it's no quite the
>> same as a card reader, something which in practice is probably a 'don't
>> care' type of situation.
>
> There's no need for a Twain driver or even Zoombrowser. In a
> PCMCIA adapter the entire directory structure of the card is visible
> using Windows Explorer or any other file browser. I've never had
> any problem accessing any of the images that Canon cameras store on
> their cards, and that also applies to the additional direcories and
> index files created by Canon cameras. IrfanView is also able to
> read images directly off the card.
I am using Mandriva LE2005 (a linux distro) and my experience using
several cameras is that connecting to the computer via usb is successful
in each case. The cameras are Sony dsc P1 and my wifes Sony ?, My grandson
little point and shoot, my HP 845 and my new Canon EOS 350 D. I use GTKam
to download and save with the Gimp to process if needed.

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:37:05 -0400, ASAAR wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:24:24 +0000 (UTC), Neil Ellwood wrote:
>
>>> There's no need for a Twain driver or even Zoombrowser. In a
>>> PCMCIA adapter the entire directory structure of the card is visible
>>> using Windows Explorer or any other file browser. I've never had
>>> any problem accessing any of the images that Canon cameras store on
>>> their cards, and that also applies to the additional direcories and
>>> index files created by Canon cameras. IrfanView is also able to
>>> read images directly off the card.
>>
>> I am using Mandriva LE2005 (a linux distro) and my experience using
>> several cameras is that connecting to the computer via usb is successful
>> in each case. The cameras are Sony dsc P1 and my wifes Sony ?, My grandson
>> little point and shoot, my HP 845 and my new Canon EOS 350 D. I use
>> GTKam to download and save with the Gimp to process if needed.
>
> That's nice to know, but doesn't explain why the OP can't get
> similar results with his G6. If he's in the neighborhood, perhaps
> he can drop by and you'll make a CD copy of his images so he can
> continue taking pictures? It that's not possible, it might be more
> convenient and require less money to get a cheap PCMCIA adapter than
> to purchase or try to download a Mandriva distro while he's on the
> road.
June Linux Format DVD edition has it on a bootable disk.

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"Rick" <nospam@earthlink.net> writes:
> Just download it from Canon's website.

The s/w on Canon's website is an "updater". It won't install if you
don't have the original software instaleld already.
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On 11 Jun 2005 23:00:17 -0700, mikenews@5circles.com wrote:

> Because I didn't have the software with me, and hadn't installed on the
> laptop before I left.

You do realize that Canon's software is not needed? I have it
installed on my computer, but don't use it, as it is crude and
sluggish. I simply copy images directly from the card. I probably
should delete Zoombrowser and the rest of it as I haven't used it in
years.