-=1DS Mark II Admirers, congregate!

I always use a card reader as well, I've only ever connected the camera up to change the custom settings

Had lunch with friends at the weekend:

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The Ghost of FM wrote in post #13229515
There are a number of usb based CF card reader devices on the market from Sandisk and others. I use one of those on my computer and simply take the card out of the camera, plug it into the drive and transfer the files onto my hard drive. Doing this also saves a bit of battery time for shooting on the camera rather then spending it transferring files.

Cheers!

I do have a cf reader, I just can't connect the camera to change the user preferences.

Stamp wrote in post #13233836
I do have a cf reader, I just can't connect the camera to change the user preferences.

Yeah thats all firewire, Pita.

If i remember correctly, it won't run on 64bit even if you get a firewire card, i have an old laptop lying around with 32bit XP on it that i grabbed a firewire card for and used that, it worked very glitchily but it worked once, the second time it didn't want anymore...

Or last time i didn't want to bother with the laptop, i just visited a large Photostore in my area who had Macs with EOS Utility on them, connecting to firewire that way worked on the 2nd computer.

Csae wrote in post #13234877
Yeah thats all firewire, Pita.

If i remember correctly, it won't run on 64bit even if you get a firewire card, i have an old laptop lying around with 32bit XP on it that i grabbed a firewire card for and used that, it worked very glitchily but it worked once, the second time it didn't want anymore...

Or last time i didn't want to bother with the laptop, i just visited a large Photostore in my area who had Macs with EOS Utility on them, connecting to firewire that way worked on the 2nd computer.

Not good.. all my PC's are 64bit now. Maybe I'll try what you did, although I don't think I absolutely need to get in there to change anything as of right now.

Stamp wrote in post #13235137
Not good.. all my PC's are 64bit now. Maybe I'll try what you did, although I don't think I absolutely need to get in there to change anything as of right now.

You can just set them once and turn them on-off in the camera after, theres maybe one or two settings that you MAY at some point want to fine tune, like AEB, 2,3,5,7 shots. The rest i just had them set to what i would need, and then turn them off in-camera when i don't want them.

The FW thing is really a major flaw in the 1dsII, i do remember seeing the camera SDK out on canon somewhere, maybe the eu? Someone with enough knowledge may be able to tweak something into using the USB instead of the FW, but thats a small chance and would need someone with a strong background, probably wishful thinking.

Stamp wrote in post #13235137
Not good.. all my PC's are 64bit now. Maybe I'll try what you did, although I don't think I absolutely need to get in there to change anything as of right now.

It runs great on Mac 64-bit. (with FW).

Thanks to this great thread I picked up a 1dsm2 a couple of weeks ago, I could not be happier. Thank guys!

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Great pics jj, love the 2nd one where the baby has the tongue hanging out.

Stamp wrote in post #13235137
Not good.. all my PC's are 64bit now. Maybe I'll try what you did, although I don't think I absolutely need to get in there to change anything as of right now.

Perhaps you have a friend with a 32 bit OS still or access to a workplace PC?

Good luck!

Cheers!

Spent Thanksgiving up in Muskoka with the wife and family at the cottage, what a beautiful weekend! Couldn't have asked for better weather and the lake while frigid was still refreshing Here's a couple shots from the weekend.

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jj_glos wrote in post #13230617
I always use a card reader as well, I've only ever connected the camera up to change the custom settings

Had lunch with friends at the weekend:

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Dan and Emma by jj_glos, on Flickr

That's a great picture! Love it.

Colin

I love my new 1Ds mkII, on Thursday I left work at 6pm, by the time I got home next evening I'd driven 1100 miles up to the Highlands of Scotland and back in 26 hours to photograph the mountains, really happy with my results. I won't bore you with many but you can see them on my flickr, www.flickr.com/markmul​len

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^ Congrats on the body acquisition, Mark... Welcome to the club and nice capture!!! Same goes to you, Zen... Lovely images, too... Anyhoo... Uno from moi @ Park City, Utah last week... My brother-in-law took a snapshot of me shooting the mountainside with my Droid X... Hehhehehhehe...

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Congrats MarkM, the 1Ds2 is wonderful camera, I can't imagine going to another body! Nice shot Butchie...is that *gasp* snow??!! lol

^ It is, Zen... First blanket of snowfall @ Park City for the upcoming season... The day before this shot, the entire field/moutainside was completely covered with the "white stuff"... The resort mentioned ~2" of light snowfall during that day!!! Ironically, if you look back a few pages, I posted shots a day before the snowfall came... Pretty crazy season changes within 24-48hrs...

^^ Nice shooting guys!

I'll add a bit of Autumn flavor here too, taken this morning...