Canon EOS Utility

[sknowles]

<p>I have a Canon 5D which worked very well with Canon's EOS Utility under OS-X 10.4-10.6 but Canon dropped support for older digital cameras with the EOS Utility version 2.10.4 for OS-X 10.7 (Lion), meaning mark I and some mark II models of several camera (eg. 5D, 1D, 1Ds) don't work anymore to download images from the camera. I finally reverted to version 2.8 but it only works once before you have to reboot the Mac.</p>

<p>So my question is if anyone knows a third-party application which works with Lion and supports older Canon digital cameras to download images into the specified folders with correct filenames. The ones I've seen all start with newer cameras which have live views or remote control.</p>

[scott_ferris]

<p>Lightroom 4 opens my 1D files both via card and direct from the camera.</p>

[sarah_fox]

<p>I'd suggest using a cheap card reader. It's faster than downloading from the camera. Then you can use this wonderful freeware app (donation requested) to pluck the images off of your card, rename them appropriately (e.g. by date), and place them into files however you like:</p>

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[JDMvW]

<p>Adobe Bridge™ will work with a card reader and do the downloads, naming, etc.</p>

[sknowles]

<p>Thanks. I have and use a card reader. Canon's older EOS Utility used to read from card readers and cameras. I forgot about Adobe Bridge and Lightroom (I tried some others), and something to try.</p>