Canon camera unfortunately does not plug&play its flash memory card as mass storage but the camera appears in Scanners and cameras list. It seems logical but it brings many problems because it s not possible to open files stored in the camera directly and - probably due Windows limitation even Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer is installed - does not list RAW files.



Proprietary Canon utilities may download all kind of pictures, of course, but it s another piece of GUI software. You have to open tool, manually pictures, download them, delete camera, ie. it s good if you do all processing via Canon utilities but if 3rd party software is used then a simple scr ipt could do automatically. For example Adobe Photoshop CS2 support digital negative format. Images are stored in RAW format - original Canon s .CRW, .CR2 - in Abobe s .DNG with extra information how to transform RAW to JPG/TIF. Advantage of such approach - no data are lost.-Canon camera unfortunately does not plug&play its flash memory card as mass storage but the camera appears in Scanners and cameras list. It seems logical but it brings many problems because it s not possible to open files stored in the camera directly and - probably due Windows limitation even Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer is installed - does not list RAW files.



Proprietary Canon utilities may download all kind of pictures, of course, but it s another piece of GUI software. You have to open tool,　manually pictures, download them, delete　camera, ie. it s good if you do all processing via Canon utilities but if 3rd party software is used then a simple scr ipt could do automatically. For example Adobe Photoshop CS2 support　digital negative　format. Images are stored in RAW format - original Canon s .CRW, .CR2 - in Abobe s .DNG with extra information how to transform RAW to JPG/TIF. Advantage of such approach - no data are lost.