Problem with EOS Capture 1.3

[Doc Nickel]

I wanted to load the Capture software in order to try a time-lapse with my XT. The software loads just fine, ZoomBrowser and all that stuff I didn't need work perfectly. Camera is recognized, and I can transfer photos easily.

'Course, I don't need any of that stuff, so naturally it works great.

Capture 1.3, however, apparently doesn't exist. I have the Capture 1.3 Readme, and the Capture 1.3 Uninstaller, but no Capture 1.3 itself. No desktop icon, no link buried in the Start Menu, nothing.

Uninstalling and reloading- multiple times- doesn't help. Doesn't matter if the camera is connected or not, or switched on or not. Downloading and installing it from Canon directly doesn't help.

Thinkpad with Win98, if it matters.

Can anyone help?

Doc.

[robertwgross]

Do you have the Canon EOS Viewer Utility? Menu item Capture.

---Bob Gross---

[Doc Nickel]

Turns out there was a Kodak image viewer app that was somehow already set as the default for camera connections, probably from the previous owner of the laptop.

There was no uninstaller for the Kodak app, and deleting it kept giving me an error as the PC was looking for it when the camera was connected.

I had to dump all the Canon software, do a couple of restarts, then do a fresh reload (on a different partition, just to be sure.) When the camera tried to connect, I was allowed to set the Canon app as the default, and finally, after three-plus hours, it works.

Interesting to play with, but apparently the XT doesn't go into "sleep mode", even if it's on 1 min sleep and the remote timer is on five minutes. I guess I will need an AC power supply... I wonder how long my two batteries in the grip will last...

Doc.