Zoombrowser won't recognise camera

My camera is an IXUS 40. I have been using Zoombrowser EX 4.6 with Windows XP for years to download photos to a computer. I now have a new computer with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I have downloaded an upgrade for Zoombrowser so it's now version 6.9.0.1 but it doesn't recognise the camera when I plug it in. To make things more complicated Windows 7 recognises the camera, as when I plug it in it appears as an item under Computer in Windows Explorer.

Can anyone suggest why the latest Zoombrowser doesn't detect the camera, when Windows 7 does, and what I can do to solve this?

Did you install Image Browser EX 1.1.0 ?


From what I'm reading in the description it needs to be installed too.
I don't use either for downloading pics so it's just something you can try...

I don't have an answer to your Zoombrowser problem but it seems it would be easiest to just use a card reader to download from the card to the computer. Been doing it that way since I bought my first digital camera.

Jim K wrote in post #15221525
it would be easiest to just use a card reader to download from the card to the computer.

Can you say why? I just sit down at the computer and connect the cord to the camera, push a button and click a mouse and the pictures are downloaded. Isn't that quicker and easier that having to remove the card from the camera, putting it into the reader, and doing that in reverse when you are done?

atikovi wrote in post #16532937
Can you say why? I just sit down at the computer and connect the cord to the camera, push a button and click a mouse and the pictures are downloaded. Isn't that quicker and easier that having to remove the card from the camera, putting it into the reader, and doing that in reverse when you are done?

From what you write you seem to not have any problems with Zoombrowser. The OP was having a problem with Zoombrowser. A card reader is a simple connection to the operating system, a camera connection uses a software program to connect.

In my limited experience I have found and read that cameras are frequently slower than a good card reader.

When I shoot in both the morning and afternoon I would use a 16 GB card in the AM, switch to another card for the afternoon shooting at another location. Then using a program like Downloader Pro I set the AM location and dump that card. Change the location and dump the other card.

A 16GB card? I guess you must take large pictures or many of them. I use an old 1GB card that was the biggest thing at the time. I might take 5 or 10 pics of some thing and download it. Then repeat a dozen times with other things. Occasionally I might shoot 150 pics before downloading but they are in the 250MB to 500MB size range. Much easier for me to download from the camera than popping the card in and out of the camera and a reader.

For now I'm downloading with Windows to a desktop folder and opening that with ZoomBrowser. Think I can live with that for now.

atikovi wrote in post #16532937
Can you say why? I just sit down at the computer and connect the cord to the camera, push a button and click a mouse and the pictures are downloaded. Isn't that quicker and easier that having to remove the card from the camera, putting it into the reader, and doing that in reverse when you are done?

Card reader is easier and faster, I feel. To start with I don't have to install additional software on my computer that I will not use for anything else.

When you connect the camera to the computer it using software to read and download the photos, which is slower then a straight transfer.

My computer has a built in card reader and all I do is remove the card, insert into card reader, which is automatically detected. I select the photos to copy and away it goes, and much faster then connecting the camera to the computer and using additional software to move the photos. This also means I don't have to keep track where any additional cables are, as I don't need them (I keep them in the original box for the camera in the closest...I have three cameras (Rebel XT, 60D, and Sony P&S) and all the cables are still in the original boxes).

I can also see wwhy a 16gb card is a nice thing to use. I use 8gb in my P&S and leave the photos on the card as well as copy to my computer, and external. memory is cheap and this allow plenty of rooom to I never delete the image soff the cards (cheap form of back up). For my DSLR's I use 32gb and do the same things. So I end up with the processed photos on my external when all is said and done, and th eoriginals on the card they were chot on as a back up. I am however getting ready to purchase another xternal just to copy the cards to, and will then reuse the cards, but until then I do not delete them. Maybe this is over kill, but I do know I will always have a good copy of what I shoot.

There is nothing wrong with either way, as both work, it just depends on the user, and what the individual prefers to do. Me I just like having to insert card in slot, and away I go, then put card back in camera.

atikovi wrote in post #16545770
A 16GB card? I guess you must take large pictures or many of them. I use an old 1GB card that was the biggest thing at the time. I might take 5 or 10 pics of some thing and download it. Then repeat a dozen times with other things. Occasionally I might shoot 150 pics before downloading but they are in the 250MB to 500MB size range. Much easier for me to download from the camera than popping the card in and out of the camera and a reader.

For now I'm downloading with Windows to a desktop folder and opening that with ZoomBrowser. Think I can live with that for now.

There are several reason for a 16gb card. First it will last all day, or all of a vacation if need be. What I do is use 8gb cards with my P&S and 32gb with my SLRs. When done shooting I copy the images to my computer, and leave them on the card. When completed processing I move them to an external, and keep the originals on my card. Instead of erasing the cards I replace them (would rather pay for more memory then lose the photos), so I end up with the originals on my card (CF or SD) and the processed images on my external.