Cracking Canon’s EOS Utility for Mac

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Today I had a small product photo-shoot and lo and behold, I forgot my CF card.

Canon has this nifty program called Digital Photo Professional through their EOS Utility.  You can take a picture from and save to your computer with it.  Every Canon camera comes with a cd full of great software like this.. but like any true techie I threw away the manufacture disks.

For some reason Canon refuses to give away this software online. Even though the software only works with their cameras and every camera comes with a copy they wont let you download it! Some bigwig CEO must have freaked out when hearing “free” and “online” in the same sentence.

Whats worse is this software is not on any torrent sites or rapidshare.

Well, fortunately for me, there was a work around.

For Mac:

  1. Download the latest “Updater” for your program here.
    1. Choose EOS > Digital EOS Camera > Your Model
    2. Navigate to “Drivers and Downloads”
    3. Choose OSX under the “Driver / Software Section”
  2. Mount the dmg image file.
  3. In the image you should see a file called “UpdateInstaller”  Drag that to you desktop.
  4. Control-click the “UpdateInstaller” on your desktop and choose “Show Package Contents” in the menu.
  5. In the new window go to Contents > Resources
  6. Delete updated.plist - update: it may be called update.plist now
  7. Run the software.
  8. Enjoy!

Canon, mind getting your act together? Its not like some Nikon user is going to take advantage of the free software you payed good money to develop.  You are a leader in digital photography, so step up to the digital age and distribute the software freely in both material and digital form.

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