Trying to get an EOS 10D to work on Windows 7

I have a friend who is trying to get her company's EOS 10D to connect to her work laptop. The laptop runs Windows 7 and when she plugs it in, it can not find a driver for the camera. I tried updating the driver through device manager and it couldn't find the driver in Windows. Canon's website didn't have anything for Windows 7. Any ideas on how to get this working?

The current version of EOS Utility and Digital Photo Pro from Canon don't support the 10D and earlier models.

You need to either find an older version of those Canon softwares (I don't know what particular version, and probably wouldn't bother unless she needs to use EOS Utilities to shoot tethered or something, if that's even possible with 10D) or...

Get a third party softwares such as Adobe Elements. It will work fine with the 10D's CRW RAW files. Or shoot JPEGs and those will work with practically anything.

Don't tether the camera to download images. Get a compact flash card reader and use that. Since it's a laptop, it probably uses an ExpressCard memory card reader. Those can be fast... very fast downloading. Faster than connecting the camera via USB 2.0 (but might not be as fast as USB 3 or Firewire 800). You can simply do a drag and drop to transfer/copy files, or use the downloading utility of any software that's being used.

Windows 7/64 bit will have trouble viewing many types of RAW files directly (in Windows Explorer). AFAIK, Canon hasn't offered a codec for that yet. I bought a codec called FastPictureViewer for $15 and installed it, to be able to preview thumbnails of all sorts of RAW files within Explorer. Not just Canon... Oly, Nikon, Sony, Pentax... they all will display as thumbnails (just set Explorer to "Large" or "Extra Large Icon" view). It works with Vista or any other 64 bit Windows OS, too.


10D is a great little camera. It's a little hard on batteries, so have spares available (just get cheap third party BP511A clones off eBay or elsewhere, they'll work fine). The BG-ED3 battery/vertical grip offered to fit 10D is one of the nicest Canon made for DSLRs, too.

I would just get a USB card reader. The 10D came out almost 10 years ago and Canon isn't updating drivers for new operating systems anymore.

amfoto1 wrote in post #14634165
Windows 7/64 bit will have trouble viewing many types of RAW files directly (in Windows Explorer). AFAIK, Canon hasn't offered a codec for that yet. I bought a codec called FastPictureViewer for $15 and installed it, to be able to preview thumbnails of all sorts of RAW files within Explorer.

Download the MS codec for the RAW files. (won't work with 5D3 RAW files, but does with previous version of RAW)
http://www.microsoft.c​om …oad/details.asp​x?id=26829

To the OP, I think I card reader is in your future. The only other easy solution I know is to use a VM with an older OS.

She's shooting jpeg's (it's for a sharepoint site so quality isn't that big of a deal) so RAW compatibility isn't a problem. The USB card reader will work, of course mine's at home. I'll tell her to expense one for the camera and it should work nicely.

Thanks for the help.

Just found something that may help:

http://answers.microso​ft.com …b9-4e39-b057-11d668a82d88

read the whole thing as there is some firmware version talk as well.

Have you tried changing the communication mode to PTP on the 10D?

Coogles wrote in post #14634228
Have you tried changing the communication mode to PTP on the 10D?

This could do it. I had that issue, as well.

That said, the only way I could ever get FULL access to the camera was to dig up and install an old version of Canon's utilities on an XP machine. If you don't care about changing copyright info or anything, then a card reader is all you'll need.

It's old this thread but I recently had a similar issue and I am sure other people googling will do too so I will update for people searching the web.

A stock 10d (on it's original firmware) will not talk to WIndows 7.

You need to get firmware version 2 and copy it onto the compact flash card so you can update it in the camera. You can either use a card reader for this, or use an old computer (XP)that might connect to the 10d on its stock firmware.

Once the firmware is updated there will be a new option in the menu area, communication setting, change it to PTP. Now the 10d will connect to Windows 7 machines through the USB cable as soon as you plug it in etc and you can access files just like it is a pen drive, portable hard drive etc

It is a little slow being USB 1, but as it is only 6MP camera, jpeg transfer is pretty quick, and even RAW files are not that big file size, so I copy around 100 raw files over in maybe 10 minutes or so.

I love my 10d, it's still a very capable camera, the 6mp doesn't allow much croppage so it makes you shoot better first time

(If you cannot find the firmware 2, PM me and I will email it to you)

The Canon Japanese website at http://web.canon.jp …OS10D/10D_firmw​are-e.html has very clear instructions for installing firmware version 2.0.1. Then do as Nordic_Traveler says.