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Old 12-15-2008   #1
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I read in another post someone was shooting tethered to a laptop so that the pictures would display on the laptop screen as they were being taken. How do you do this?

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With Canon, you use the Canon Utility that comes on the CD with the camera and a USB cable. I don't know about other brands.
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With Nikon, you use Camera Control Pro which can either use a USB cable or done wirelessly with the WT4a accessory.
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With Nikon, you use Camera Control Pro which can either use a USB cable or done wirelessly with the WT4a accessory.
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Craig, I jumped on to ask the same question, only for an Olympus. Sure hope more folks read your post. Canon and Nikon answers don't help me much.
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Craig, I jumped on to ask the same question, only for an Olympus. Sure hope more folks read your post. Canon and Nikon answers don't help me much.
Apparently the Olympus shooting/editing softwar called Olympus Studio Olympus Imaging Software - Olympus Studio 2.0 allows tethered shooting for some Olympus models. Another raw file editing software called Bibble Pro does also. You'll have to Google that one yourself.
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As long you use the Canon Utility/Driver to get the connection you should be able to use Lightroom, Bridge, etc to monitor the folder where the files are saves to.
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Thanks Brooks. I'll have to give up dounuts with my coffee and give that a try.
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i use bibble pro and a long usb lead. photos take about 1 secomd to come up onto the monitor. Theyre then stored on the laptops hard drive instead of the camera memory.
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i use bibble pro and a long usb lead. photos take about 1 secomd to come up onto the monitor. Theyre then stored on the laptops hard drive instead of the camera memory.
I thought it would be stored both places?


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