I have a Digital IXUS 750 which until recently was able to download all images from the camera to my PC without a hitch. Immediately the USB link from camera to PC was made the Zoom Browser Ex fired up, the blue light illuminated on the camera and hitting the button and the images downloaded with no probs. Now despite uninstalling, reinstalling and applying canon's latest zoom browser update - nothing. Connecting the USB to Camera link and turning the camera on in the playback mode does nothing except to give rise to the normal windows hardware audio bleep but no new hardware icon appearing on the taskbar. All does work normally however if using a card reader. Zoom browser fires up as normal, hardware install icon appears on task bar and all features function as normal. It is just the using the camera to download function that is not working. Neither are the menus able to activate this function, even when accessed directly by manually firing up the Zoom Browser. Like everything else to those that know there is probably an easy solution. Please help if you can. Thanks in anticipation. Mike

Ginko

• 19396 Answers
• Posted on Aug 24, 2008

SOURCE: Ixus 750 advanced user guide!

Here is the advanced user guide: Camera User Guide Advanced

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Many thanks.

Larry Lee

• 24 Answers
• Posted on Mar 10, 2009

SOURCE: Cannot download pictures using zoom browser ex

Camera direct to computer connections are notoriously problematic. (Lousy with bugs etc.) I avoid the problem entirely by using a card reader ($15-20) combined with Picasa3 (free software from Google). Remove card from camera and insert into card reader, connect to computer via USB and download images with Picasa3. Works great and is relatively cheap.

CameraR

• 4738 Answers
• Posted on Jul 03, 2009

SOURCE: IXUS 80 IS :Cannot connect to camera

Please don't take this as a sales pitch as it's not, but please see the following blog article, as it describes the use of an inexpensive card reader as a much easier, faster, and less error prone way to download your photos and videos. In fact there are several important reasons discussed in the article for using a card reader vice downloading from the camera. USB Card readers are also very inexpensive these day, with cost virtually not an issue:
http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-do-i-download-photos-or-pictures.html

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Skip this kind of transfer, save time by buying and using a card reader/writer. This way it is not necessary to have the need for any software on the computer. You can transfer any files from the card to the computer, and you can write to the card as well, if necessary. I recommend never to write to the card until you have transferred all files from the card to the hard drive. That is because by writing to the card, you may delete files.

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Try NOT connecting your camera to your computer.

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program.