Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

Looking for a site to download the latest Canon Digital Photo Professional and cannot seem to find a download site that doesn't require downloading a bunch of extraneous junk along with it, which makes Malware Bytes go nuts. Can't find any way to download at Canon USA site. Can somebody please give me a clue? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Bill_de Loc: US

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

http://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home

Not sure why you haven't been able find this yourself ... Go to support / drivers & downloads / enter your camera type (example: EOS 7D) / highlight and press <enter> when the camera appears in the drop-down list. Select the DPP software, enter any EOS body serial number when prompted and download.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

Thank you for your prompt response. Did find the download after after hastily posted help request here. Mostly interested in exploring HDR capabilities of the program I have heard about. Never fully explored the program's abilities since looking at the copy that came with my first digital Rebel and a couple of newer cameras since then because the various versions of Elements handled raw images and did all I aspired to do which was basically to fine tune images I was pretty satisfied with.

Guys like you make the Hog a great site. Thanks again.

Jim

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Took me less than a minute to find at canon support. That included a google search and entering my camera model (EOS 80D).

http://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/dslr/eos-80d?tab=drivers#Z7_MQH8HIC0L88RB0AMD0F1Q42K25

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

I downloaded Canon DPP for my 80D and was stunned to find out that it could not read my old Rebel RAW files. So, I tried to download a version for the Rebel, and again was stunned to find that there isn't one. I guess Canon just abandoned the older formats.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You probably want to double check that ...

Below is a screen capture from the v4.7.20 DPP Instruction Manual. The only model that seems to be missing is the original EOS Digital Rebel, model 300D. I didn't pull the manual for the v3 software, but I think if you are calling attention to a 300D, you should check that software for support. All subsequent models are covered by the newest 4.7.20 software ...

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

I found my old Rebel CDs and downloaded DPP 3 by letting it see the CD. Now I can open my old RAW files by using DPP 3, but it can't view the RAW files from the 80D. What a way to run a railroad.

I guess I will use the two software solution until I make up my mind which post prossesing software I want to use. From what I can find out all the major PP programs can open both versions.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Eric - you don't have a Rebel listed in your profile nor have you identified the camera model ... so I'm in the dark on the specifics of your issue. As noted before in my partial analysis, only one Rebel camera was not listed explicitly by the 4.7.20 software ... Definitely no upward support to new models from v3 that stopped 3+ years ago as memory serves. But Canon has continued to add support for RAW for old EOS bodies, covering nearly all of them with maybe just this 300D outlier. And you're shooting with that old model today? Or, editing the old files today? I'm really not understanding your issue in absence of specifics ...

Although Lightroom seems so "scary" with their recent changes going forward, the current perpetual license version 6 supports raw back to a Rebel 300D thru a EOS 80D. You're risk is to decide to change cameras as early as 2018 when v6 won't be updated to support those RAW files. Personally, I still run LR v5 but use DPP as my RAW converter and taking the results out of DPP as 16-bit TIFF to LR. Over the years I've shot a Rebel XTi and 7D and those RAW files open directly into LR5. The XTi was added to DPP4 relatively recently and I haven't had occasion to revisit any of the old files to see if the DPPv4 processing performs better than taking the RAW directly into LR for these old images.

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

I'm sorry, I thought I had mentioned the older photos are from the Digital Rebel 300D. While I still have the older model, I don't shoot with it. I have been thinking of giving it to my 13 year old granddaughter if she shows interest in photography. But I still have thousands of old RAW files to support.

A new problem with the 80D has surfaced. You cannot see the 80D RAW thumbnails in Windows 7.

I have not eliminated Lightroom/Photoshop from my possible selections. But I need to figure out how much I would spend on it versus how much I would spend on upgrades.

My apologies to the OP. We seem to have high jacked your thread.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

OK. You can still get and download the latest version of DPP v3 for the Digital Rebel / 300D. Canon has been progressively adding older model support into DPP4, but not yet the Digital Rebel / 300D. You will need DPP3 for that. Both applications work well and both can coexist. Software needs to evolve, and Canon seems to be supporting both new and older models well enough, this is normal for software. http://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/support-dslr/eos-digital-rebel?subtab=downloads-software#Z7_MQH8HIC0L88RB0AMD0F1Q42K25

This camera was introduced in 2003, so supporting a 14 year old model is not bad for the software industry. Use DPP4 for your 80D. The Canon raw codec may be useful for Windows 7, it certainly works on Windows 10, and bear in mid that Windows 7 is now an obsolete OS that is now out of mainstream support, so you are living on borrowed time. Windows 7 was released in May7 2009, 8 years ago. Your expectations for the software industry are, shall we say, less than realistic. Both Microsoft and Canon have done better than most. You had a year to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, which is a better OS than Windows 7 and will continue to be supported..

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Definitely better at snooping.

In other words, please stop preaching the "good news of Win 10". You've had your say. I won't say any more, but there were perfectly good reasons why MS wasn't able to push this onto some of us.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Yes, but most of that can be turned off or shutdown. Sadly this is the way of the modern internet, our online activities are harvested. Can you live off the grid? Would it be worth the cost?

Is there a viable alternative?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I can never be sure that I've turned everything off.
My next primary computer will be Linux.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The OP reported their problem solved pages ago ...

Unfortunate on the age of the 300D and the lack of RAW support in the "consolidated" v4 platform. But, given you need it for just old work, I don't perceive this as an everyday issue. Your granddaughter can use the v3 software and never be the wiser. Although, as a beginner, she might be better served by shooting JPEG and worrying about composition rather than editing ....

Regarding Win7 and thumbnails, I'd think there was a CODEC from Canon for this. I don't see it listed in download support for the 80D. Using Google to search, I came to this notice on the Canon site. Possibly, the v4 install disabled your existing CODEC? The longer your continue to run Win7, the more at risk you become due to failing software and lack of support to your virus protection. Rather than waiting for the bad actors to find you and a real crisis to arrive, you should be planning and executing the necessary upgrade(s).