APT Canon 20D

[dark star]

Is there any way to get APT to work with a Canon 20D in Windows 7? I assume it is impossible as Canon do not support the 20D for Windows 7? I just wanted to check if there is a way to get it to work. When I try I get a message saying "communication problem".

I know almost nothing about astrophotography, but now I have a HEQ5 mount I wouldn't mind taking the occasional photo, especially of things I can't seem to see from my light polluted location like M51! As the 20D does not have live view it is murder to use, unless with a computer.

David

[Yoddha]

Hi David,

If your Win7 is 32bts there is no problem. Just install the drivers for 350D. If you have 64bits, there are two solutions - to configure a 32 bits virtual machine and install there the drivers and APT. The second option is to install a new copy of XP or Win7 32bits as dual boot...

[Yoddha]

Also make sure that the "connection"option in the camera menu is set to "PC connection"

[dark star]

To resurrect this slightly old post.

For anyone who has an older Canon camera such as the 20D which will not work on Windows 7, as Yoddha suggested one option is a virtual machine.

As I know little about computers this took huge amounts of messing about. I finally succeeded in installing an XP virtual machine, this is VMLite.

If you try this I would recommend V4 Beta as I had huge problems with the earlier version.

You may also need to install VirtualBox from Oracle, although I am not sure if this is necessary. Both downloads are free and there is a lot of information on the internet.

Do not hold me responsible if anything goes wrong with your computer, but it worked for me!

APT now works, I just need the endless cloud to disappear to try it out!

I bought an Equinox 80ed refractor, thinking I could use it to take photographs of wildlife during the day if there are clouds at night, but everything has been grey and horrible during the day as well! I honestly don't remember it being cloudy day and night for two whole weeks before!

David

[Yoddha]

Hi David,

It is great that you managed to solve the problem 20D is a very good camera. So pity that Canon abandon the official support for it