No support for 64 from Canon; Digital Rebel

[awdowden]

I spent 3 hours searching the net (including these forums) for a way to make my Canon 300d camera work with my PC. I couldn't find a single person with my same connection problems. I knew I must have configured something wrong... Finally, Canon wrote me back:

"Unfortunately, we do not support the Windows XP 64 at this time. We apologize for this inconvenience."

I have spent a week getting my new build tuned and getting everything working (right drivers, etc). It's my first venture into XP 64. However, I have wanted a camera like this forever...

Is my only option to reinstall Windows and start all over in 32 again? Please someone give me another solution! I could buy a CF card reader, but then I wouldn't be able to use the utilites I wanted that operate through the camera.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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64 Non-Compatibility:

AVG-Free Anti-Virus

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Acrobat Professional* (edits, but won't "print" to pdf, therefore useless)

Canon Digital Rebel 300d

Edited December 9, 2006 by awdowden

[cluberti]

Unless you have access to the source for these utilities, or understand the device and want to write your own software stack for it, you're stuck outside looking in on x64 with that device. It's not trivial to convert software and drivers to x64, but it's not that difficult either (especially when you're doing it for your own x86 software ). It's the catch-22 for companies like these - there's no real market push yet for x64 due to a lack of software and driver support, but that's also the reason there's no real market push...

[awdowden]

Canon wrote me back today and said in 3-4 months they should be able to make drivers because they'll be making them for Vista. I'm so frustrated, I want to use my toy!