Hello all - I hope someone can help me out with this issue - I am a Canon shooter and for my own 20D and 50D shots I've always just used a card reader to transfer files to my computer. BUT - I'm now teaching at a college, and they have Canon Rebel 550D (aka T2i) and they are not providing card readers to the students.So I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to transfer files to computer without installing the Canon software. As with my point'n'shoot cams, where you plug it in and it shows up on the desktop and you drag your files over.I've been experimenting with the Rebel and it won't show up on the desktop when connetced via the USB cable, and there do not seem to be any menus on the camera in which to change communications settings (or any mention of such in the damn manual!)Any thoughts? Thanks! Andrew.

I should add that they will be using a variety of computers, PC and Mac, the school's and their own. I also realize that I can get them to use Adobe Bridge's Photo Downloader - I tried that and it's working fine. I still wonder if I can just have the SD card contents show up like a drive on the dekstop.Thanks!

I haven't tried this so don't know if it works. But for the Macs have you tried running Image Capture while the camera was attached to the Mac?Image Capture comes with all Macs and can be found in the Applications Folder.If Image Capture works it would at lest allow you to transfer files to the computer.

panikspacewrote:I should add that they will be using a variety of computers, PC and Mac, the school's and their own. I also realize that I can get them to use Adobe Bridge's Photo Downloader - I tried that and it's working fine. I still wonder if I can just have the SD card contents show up like a drive on the dekstop.Thanks!I don't know about Macs, but on a PC there is only one way to transfer the pics: EOS Utility. There is no way to see the camera as a 'drive'.Now that I think a little bit more, there may also be a way with Adobe software, such as Lightroom, but still no way to see the camera as a 'drive'. -- YogiWhen you get down to the nuts and bolts of photography, the results depend on the 'nut' behind the camera!See the 'Plan' in my 'Profile' for my current equipment.

panikspacewrote:I should add that they will be using a variety of computers, PC and Mac, the school's and their own. I also realize that I can get them to use Adobe Bridge's Photo Downloader - I tried that and it's working fine. I still wonder if I can just have the SD card contents show up like a drive on the dekstop.Thanks!Canon doesn't make Rebels as "Mass storage drive" , you won't see it as a drive in PC, so you need either card reader or certain software. But what is your practical problem ? Too many cameras to connect ? Too many PC's to install EOS Utility ?

Plugged my 550d into my computer at work the other day (USB cable), running Windose XP, new hardware was detected and ran up something like Microsoft Camera Wizard (cannot remeber the exact name) then just follow your nose. So it appears to be plug and play at least under Windose!! -- Rank Amatuer

Thanks - good to know. The class is using mostly PCs at the moment, but I've always been Mac - they'll probably be able to figure this stuff without me!Grickerswrote:Plugged my 550d into my computer at work the other day (USB cable), running Windose XP, new hardware was detected and ran up something like Microsoft Camera Wizard (cannot remeber the exact name) then just follow your nose. So it appears to be plug and play at least under Windose!! -- Rank Amatuer

Thanks for the info - that's exactly what I needed to know! The practical issues are no card readers, about 60 possible computers, and a mix of Mac and PC - but with tiny SD card readers costing $10 or $20 now, I think that will be our solution!guinness2wrote:panikspacewrote:I should add that they will be using a variety of computers, PC and Mac, the school's and their own. I also realize that I can get them to use Adobe Bridge's Photo Downloader - I tried that and it's working fine. I still wonder if I can just have the SD card contents show up like a drive on the dekstop.Thanks!Canon doesn't make Rebels as "Mass storage drive" , you won't see it as a drive in PC, so you need either card reader or certain software. But what is your practical problem ? Too many cameras to connect ? Too many PC's to install EOS Utility ?

Brilliant - thanks! Just tested that, and it's nice and simple. I knew there had to be something built in to OSX, somewhere...Ear Mountainwrote:I haven't tried this so don't know if it works. But for the Macs have you tried running Image Capture while the camera was attached to the Mac?Image Capture comes with all Macs and can be found in the Applications Folder.If Image Capture works it would at lest allow you to transfer files to the computer.