I talked to a friend last night with a 5DII, and he said he had no trouble getting his mac to read the cards.
I booted up my linux box this morning, plugged the card in, and it "just worked". The card is a Super Talent 600x 64GB compact flash http://www.supertalent.com/products/sd_detail.php?series=CompactFlash%20Cards http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/5_116.pdf My card reader on the Mac is an IOGEAR GUH28R http://www.iogear.com/product/GUH284R/ I am beginning to suspect the card reader as the problem link. On Nov 17, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Larry, > > A few thoughts: > 1. Either, as Boris wrote, you've got bad/bent contacts (very often with CF > readers), or the reader is not designed to read this higher capacity > cards. > 2. Typically, when you connect a digital camera via USB, at least > two types of drivers have to be activated: first - for the connection, > and second, - for the "mass storage device". > It looks like the second one is not there. > I don't know about Canon DSLRs, but smaller, P&S digital cameras > from Canon don't work with the generic devices for that (at least > under Windows) but require a special driver to be installed before the system > can recognize them as a storage device. In the absence of the driver, > only software programs that know how to work with cameras would be > able to read the content of the camera's storage. > Apparently, LR (which I think is capable of doing tethering with Canon > DSLRs), knows how to talk to the camera directly. > > HTH, > > Igor > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote: >> The widow of my friend who passed away from cancer last year asked me >> to teach her how to use his Canon 5DmkII. So, first of all, I need to >> figure it out. When I was last at his place, we plugged his CF card >> into the reader on his desktop computer, and uploaded his last files. >> I just tried doing that on my iMac, with no luck. It wouldn't even >> recognize the card in finder. I then found a USB cable, plugged it >> into the camera and while OSX wouldn't recognize the camera, Lightroom >> did. So I was able to back up his last photos (and the last photos of >> him) onto my computer. >> >> The CF card in question is a 64GB card. Do I need a special reader >> for it? Does anyone know the reason that the camera isn't showing up >> in the finder when it is plugged in with the USB cable, even though >> lightroom can read the files? >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
