Canon Digital Rebel/EOS 300D PTP Driver

Hi - I have a Canon Digital Rebel/EOS 300D that I have successfully
been using in conjunction with a Windows Vista machine for about 12
months via the PTP connection.

However, when I recently connected the Camera I was prompted for a
driver for the camera, which as far as I'm aware Canon does not have
a
Vista compatible one for this camera. Instead, it is supposed to use
Vista's built-in PTP driver.


Any idea what may have caused this change in behaviour and how to
resolve the problem?

As a workaround you can use a card reader. A side benefit is it saves usage
of your camera battery.

"ncoathup" <news@thedairybarn.eclipse.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d9b70b0e-5678-4940-a7ac-e0ac69a04bf0@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi - I have a Canon Digital Rebel/EOS 300D that I have successfully
> been using in conjunction with a Windows Vista machine for about 12
> months via the PTP connection.
>
> However, when I recently connected the Camera I was prompted for a
> driver for the camera, which as far as I'm aware Canon does not have
> a
> Vista compatible one for this camera. Instead, it is supposed to use
> Vista's built-in PTP driver.
>
>
> Any idea what may have caused this change in behaviour and how to
> resolve the problem?

The Bob's suggestion may be useful but #1 it is inerresting to find out what
happened to the driver and #2 I am not sure that with the solution he
offered you may avoid it in the first place.
The link below is to a MS website PTP driver (Picture Transfer Protocol). It
offers insight into the .inf file and offers some troubleshooting. I did not
examine int closely.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms792271.aspx

"ncoathup" <news@thedairybarn.eclipse.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d9b70b0e-5678-4940-a7ac-e0ac69a04bf0@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi - I have a Canon Digital Rebel/EOS 300D that I have successfully
> been using in conjunction with a Windows Vista machine for about 12
> months via the PTP connection.
>
> However, when I recently connected the Camera I was prompted for a
> driver for the camera, which as far as I'm aware Canon does not have
> a
> Vista compatible one for this camera. Instead, it is supposed to use
> Vista's built-in PTP driver.
>
>
> Any idea what may have caused this change in behaviour and how to
> resolve the problem?