Tethered 1DsMKII in Windows7 64-bit no driver ??
I've been trying to make this work but the Capture One v.5.1.2 shows camera not connected. When searching through Device Manager I have an yellow exclamation mark next to the 1DsMKII generic icon. Double clicking and getting the details it shows that The drivers for this device are not installed ( Code28). Anybody made this camera work in W 7 64-bit ??? Where I can get the proper driver for this camera from. I know that there is on Canon website a driver for Windows XP but not for Windows 7 64-bit. I had the camera working tethered in XP without any problem.
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To the best of my knowledge, the 1D/1Ds mkII are some of the last Canon models that need a device driver to tether in Windows, either with their own software or from 3rd parties. Canon delivers the driver and Canon decided not to make a 64-bit version (device drivers are 32- and 64-bit related). This leaves mkII owners in the dark in this 64-bit area. An example of technologies that gone out of sync.
There are different ways to work around this limitation. Some use an old laptop for tethering, others have a system made dual boot with a 32-bit version on a separate partition. Maybe there is other tethering software available with a proprietary driver. The most elegant - and preferred solution for me - is to create a virtual machine with 32-bits Windows on your Windows 64-bit system.
Virtualization might be new to you. It is basically a computer running on your computer. Like you open images in Capture One, text files in your word-processor, you open virtual machines in your virtualization software. Virtualization software is cheap (some of the best are free) and it must virtualize the USB connection to connect to your camera. Put some extra RAM in your machine and go. And when you have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate, both the virtualization software and Windows XP 32-bit virtual machine are free for for download.
The images that are received by the tethering virtual machine can be opened from and/or stored on the host (= physical machine, your current computer).0 -
Thanks for your reply. I've done that and I have virtual Windows XP running but unfortunatelly in this environmnet the firewire port is not listed in hardware manager hence no connection with my good old 1 Ds MKII which relies on firewire for thethered shooting... Any idea how I can sort out yet another hurdle?? 0 -
My fault that I overlooked the firewire issue. Although I have owned a 1D mkII in the past, I apparently forgot that the 1D/DS mkII series were the last firewire to tether Canon. Unfortunately, there is no virtualization software that virtualizes the hardware firewire port into the virtual machine (to my knowledge at least).
That leaves the dual boot option or the preserve your old laptop option as back-out plan.0
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