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Nov 08, 2004 15:28 |  #1

I've been using my 20D for about two weeks now and it's everything I've hoped for. E-TTL 2 seems to be working and everything else is humming along.

Except for the Canon software. I used ZoomBrowser EX to download image files from my card reader to a folder that I could create in ZoomBrowser at download time. I could edit the images to delete any image files that I needed to. ZoomBrowser ignored the Canon "hundred file" folders image folders so I could see the entire contents of the CF card as if it was one big file, and downloaded it the same way.

For this purpose it worked great. It saved time and fit well into my workflow. The problem now is that ZoomBroswer doesn't "see" .cr2 files. I'm reduced to using Windows My Computer file manager to set up new folders and to do the download. I could use the new EOS Viewer Utility but that seems no better than Windows.

Does anyone know of a simple download program that can see .cr2 & .crw files, will create folders and remembers where it was?


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Nov 08, 2004 16:34 |  #2

I like using Breeze Systems "Downloader Pro" to download from the card or camera to the computer. It sees through the funky folders the camera creates and just shows you the list of images on the card/camera. You can have Downloader Pro grab files by significant EXIF data of your choice and put it into specific folders on the computer, and you can rename while downloading. It's a spiffy program.

Breeze Systems' "Breezebrowser" beats Zoombrowser at its job, so you might be interested in that, and I've verified that the latest version of Breezebrowser does see the 20D's CR2 files (as does Downloader Pro).

I think what you really want, though is Downloader Pro. I decided to buy it, but skipped Breezebrowser (although there are a lot of Breezebrowser advocates around.
http://www.breezesys.c​om/Downloader/ (external link)

Something else I like is DPMagic, which links into Windows and allows you to see the CR2 images as thumbnails right in Windows Explorer. When you right-click on the thumbnails, it gives your the EXIF data and even a histogram. There is a free version that, I think, doesn't give you all the EXIF information, but the full version costs $10.

http://www.dpmagic.com​/ (external link)


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Nov 09, 2004 11:13 |  #3

The 20D comes with (at least mine did) EosViewer Utility and Digital Photo Pro. Dunno's they're any great improvement over ZB, which has been getting progressively less useful over the years, but they at least cope with 20D .CR2 files.


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