SD450 software CD

On Jul 8, 10:38 pm, Bob Williams <mytbobnos....TakeThisOut@cox.net> wrote:
> I have had two Canon cameras and have never bothered to install the
> software for either of them. Who needs it?

same with me. I never installed the Canon software, except for
photostitch. Windows XP will automatically recognize the camera when
you connect the USB cable. Despite what the Canon documentation says,
you do not need to install the CD software to download pics.
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Jurge3000 wrote:
> I lost the software CD for my Canon Powershot SD 450. Can the
> software be downloaded? I tried downloading the driver off the Canon
> website but it wouldn't install (said the file couldn't be found), and
> I'm also not sure if that's everything I need anyway. Any help would
> be much appreciated.
>

What operating system. You don't need a special driver for winxp, some
people rarely if ever use the application software provided. An
exception would be their stitch software if you use stitch assist on
camera, but it's not essential.
Dave Cohen
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On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:10:58 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:

> What operating system. You don't need a special driver for winxp, some
> people rarely if ever use the application software provided. An
> exception would be their stitch software if you use stitch assist on
> camera, but it's not essential.

The only 'essential' feature would be if one needs the camera to
include a personalized name or ID in the EXIF data. I haven't found
any way to do that without connecting the camera to the computer via
USB or a serial port while running Zoombrowser. In seven years of
owning Powershot cameras, I've only spent a few minutes using
Canon's clunky software, and only to initialize each new camera with
an ID. If Canon stopped providing its software it would be no big
loss to me.

The only other thing that some people might want the drivers and
software for is that Canon cameras don't normally appear as disk
drives the way other cameras do. I don't know if XP solves this
problem, as I've always used card readers instead. I just tried
plugging my A620 into a USB port, something I rarely do, and Canon's
software took over. Maybe if I didn't install Canon's software XP
would have recognized the camera as a drive? Oh, wait, I think I
see what you mean. The camera isn't recognized in Explorer, but it
appears as "Canon Powershot A620" in My Computer, and there it can
be opened as a browser-like window, and files can then be copied or
moved to folders displayed by other apps. such as Explorer. It
still is limited, in that the only jpg files that appear are the
ones in taken by the camera. There were dozens of jpg files I saved
in some other folders, and they could only be accessed using a card
reader. The question remains for me, however, whether this
capability is built into XP or if it was provided by a Canon driver.
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ASAAR wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:10:58 GMT, Dave Cohen wrote:
>
>> What operating system. You don't need a special driver for winxp, some
>> people rarely if ever use the application software provided. An
>> exception would be their stitch software if you use stitch assist on
>> camera, but it's not essential.
>
> The only 'essential' feature would be if one needs the camera to
> include a personalized name or ID in the EXIF data. I haven't found
> any way to do that without connecting the camera to the computer via
> USB or a serial port while running Zoombrowser. In seven years of
> owning Powershot cameras, I've only spent a few minutes using
> Canon's clunky software, and only to initialize each new camera with
> an ID. If Canon stopped providing its software it would be no big
> loss to me.
>
> The only other thing that some people might want the drivers and
> software for is that Canon cameras don't normally appear as disk
> drives the way other cameras do. I don't know if XP solves this
> problem, as I've always used card readers instead. I just tried
> plugging my A620 into a USB port, something I rarely do, and Canon's
> software took over. Maybe if I didn't install Canon's software XP
> would have recognized the camera as a drive? Oh, wait, I think I
> see what you mean. The camera isn't recognized in Explorer, but it
> appears as "Canon Powershot A620" in My Computer, and there it can
> be opened as a browser-like window, and files can then be copied or
> moved to folders displayed by other apps. such as Explorer. It
> still is limited, in that the only jpg files that appear are the
> ones in taken by the camera. There were dozens of jpg files I saved
> in some other folders, and they could only be accessed using a card
> reader. The question remains for me, however, whether this
> capability is built into XP or if it was provided by a Canon driver.
>
1. The driver that canon supply is already present in winxp called
something like WIA.
2. Camera shows as device in explorer using something I think is called
MTP, at least that's what my Sansa mp3 player calls it. The Sansa can be
switched to MSC mode, which then behaves as a normal flash drive. I
would guess MTP stands for media transfer protocol (at least that sound
good). I would guess MSC is mass storage something or other.
3. I maintain a multi os setup. I have a partition called xpcopy, that's
where zoombrowser resides and trial downloads. Like you say, zoombrowser
is the only way to set owner name and themes (which I've never used).
Dave Cohen
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"Jurge3000" <georgepettey DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183939617.602347.137390@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
>I lost the software CD for my Canon Powershot SD 450. Can the
> software be downloaded? I tried downloading the driver off the Canon
> website but it wouldn't install (said the file couldn't be found), and
> I'm also not sure if that's everything I need anyway. Any help would
> be much appreciated.


Hi.

Why bother.

We have 3 Digital Cameras in this house, a Canon Ixus, Fuji S5100 and a
Nikon D70.

There is no Camera Software for any of them loaded onto any Computer. They
could all download via USB Cable, but, of course, we do it the quick and
easy way via a Card Reader.

Roy G
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