Thursday, 29 October 2009

28 Oct 09: Software #3 - remote shooting

My camera is a Canon EOS 50D.  The Canon EOS utility software allows you to adjust your camera settings and remote shoot by "tethering" the camera to a computer.  When you attach your camera through a USB port and select Camera settings/Remote shooting from the EOS utility menu the following control screen appears:


This allows you to adjust the aperture, shutter speed, ISO etc exactly as you can on the camera itself.  Then by clicking on "Remote Live View Shooting" an image is taken and fed directly to the computer where it can be instantly viewed on screen:


(The corner of my desk)

Selecting Preferences from the control screen allows you to set the folder the images will be downloaded to, update basic settings etc.

Selecting Other Functions from the control screen allows you to take a test shooting image:



This shot also shows the set up menu, where you can add your name as a tag which will attach to all your photographs with a copyright notice.

Using the camera in this way is really useful for trying out different camera settings on the same image composition and quickly being able to review them to see how the settings alter the appearance of the image.

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