camera to pc sync

[Sloseph]

Hi Guys

A while ago I was watching something on TV and there was a photographer doing a shoot and as soon as he took a photo it would appear on his laptop

I was just wondering what you need to do this, do I need a cable or is it a wireless thing?

I would be wanting to do with a canon 30D

Is it possible or does it needs to be a higher end camera?

Thanks in advance

[Bruce A]

You can do this with a program called Tether Pro and also the Tether Camera tool in Lightroom 3.

[SwissJon]

The camera will have been attached via a USB cable.. I read somewhere about someone connecting something like this to their camera and using live view on their computer to control the camera.. Unforturtunately they won't send it to Switzerland, so I never got the chance to try it.

[Bruce A]

Originally Posted by Bruce A

You can do this with a program called Tether Pro and also the Tether Camera tool in Lightroom 3.

Check this video: How to Setup Tethered Importing in Adobe Lightroom 3 - YouTube

[rokclmb]

The eye-fi memory cards might do it. I've never used one but they say they upload instantly to your computer.

[Sloseph]

im using photoshop cs5 am i right to assume if the feature is in lightroom is will be on cs5?

[Bruce A]

Originally Posted by Sloseph

im using photoshop cs5 am i right to assume if the feature is in lightroom is will be on cs5?

Well I haven't seen it on CS5 and that's what I use, but then I need a new glasses perscription

[Doug Sundseth]

To my knowledge, Photoshop does not do tethering.

More broadly, though, Lightroom is not a subset of Photoshop. There's a reason that many people own both.

[foto nfoosyist]

I see the OP is using a Canon but for those that wish to do this with a Nikon you can use Nikon Camera Control software. On my D300 I just have to change from Mass Storage setting in my settings > USB and all I do is plug in the usb from camera to laptop and camera control will open up. I can then shoot while the photos will open up automatically in Nikon ViewNX. I can also change a lot of settings on my camera from my laptop as I shoot.

[Biomech]

Which camera do you have? You can do tethered shooting with a 500D and 550D etc. If you have Sony then you can't until you get up to the a7xx range.

I shoot tethered with my 500D and I use Eye-Fi with my Sony a580 :P It is very useful but the eye-fi cards can be very tweaky. The last shoot I did I had to put the camera next to the laptop for it to be in range :P Oh and RAW will take forever!

When I shoot eyefi its a case of I shoot the client, they walk to the laptop, say yes, my colleague takes £10 and clicks print. Thus, I shoot JPEG for those instances because RAW would just take too long.