Very surprising that Canon wouldn't ship you the CD when they recognize
(by giving you a warranty) that you own the camera. Rather bizarre,
actually.
Chuck Norcutt
Allan Mee wrote:
> Because I bought my 300D s/h from Jacobs camera and video store, Sheffield,
> UK - I didn't get the CD that usually accompanies it. The shopo gave me a 12
> month warranty - but said they haven't got a CD. I registered my camera with
> Canon ok and got 12 months warranty from them - plus the developers SDK :) -
> but they wouldn't ship me a CD - instead they put me in contact with a
> dealer who wants approx. £20 for the CD :( - this I think is a ripoff
> consodering I just bought the camera for £323 (approx 600 dollars for people
> in the US).
> The Canon site gave the WIA driver for XP :) - but all the other software
> are 'updaters' which won't install without the original software being
> installed. A thought struck me - how do the updaters 'know' whether or not
> the original software was installed? I figured they probably just check the
> registry for appropriate entries - and so I took guesses at what the main
> entries could be. In many cases I guessed right - and so I now have the
> Remote Capture, EOS Utility, PhotoStitch, ZoomBrowser EX, and Digital Photo
> Professional software installed and working :) - which is about all the
> utilities/software I wanted off the missing CD anyway. For example, to
> install say, ZomBrowser, d/l the update. Edit the registry and under the
> Canon category add the following key:
> ZoomBrowser EX
> using RegEdit. Then just run the updater to install it.
> Just thought I'd let people (in a similar situation to me) know what to do
> as a tip.
> Allan
>
>
> PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
> number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
> inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
> about it).
>
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> confused mass of energy, have created.
> -Disturb the mind -
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