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05/04/2008 11:30:34 PM · #1 |
Where do you get viewing monitors that hook directly to the camera so clients can view pictures as you take them? I've seen them before but can't find them anywhere and don't know what they are called.
I assume they hookup using the camera's video out port. They aren't televisions and they aren't computer monitors...where do I get one and what's the name for them? |
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05/04/2008 11:43:00 PM · #2 |
| I have never heard of that. The only way I know to do it is to shoot tethered to your computer, as you shoot the images come up on the screen. |
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05/05/2008 07:20:58 AM · #3 |
Why wouldn't they be TVs? They sell small LCD TVs now and all TVs have video in, camera has video out...seems to make sense to me on the surface.
A laptop is probably a better bargain than an LCD TV - for about the same price it can do a LOT more.
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05/05/2008 08:58:23 AM · #4 |
If you're going to take the trouble to shoot tethered, you really need it to be to a computer so you can use viewing software to manage the image flow. I fail to see any advantage to doing it to a simple screen, even if this is possible (and I don't know that it is).
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05/05/2008 09:11:24 AM · #5 |
The guy I was watching was doing school photography. He was using what looked to be a 10x15 sized monitor that was flat and sat on its back. He would take four pictures of each child and then he would scroll through each picture while the parents watched the monitor and they'd choose which one they liked, then he would write down the number of that photo and delete the other three.
This wasn't a computer screen and it wasn't a TV. I've never seen one before and I can't find one searching for it.
If I want to tether it to my computer, I just use the firewire/usb port? What program do I need to use to view the pictures as I take them?
Message edited by author 2008-05-05 09:11:48. |
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05/05/2008 09:55:01 AM · #6 |
| at one time I tried to use a small portable tv as a monitor, thinking it would help save my batteries on the camera. It worked ok but wasn't a good enough quality to help. Really any flat screen that allows a video input should do fine. I'd check anywhere like bestbuy for like portable DVD screens. |
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05/05/2008 09:59:18 AM · #7 |
| Portable DVD player, works like a charm. |
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05/05/2008 10:34:27 AM · #8 |
| Agreed - a small, portable DVD player - around 7" works like a charm. Connect the video out from your camera to the DVD player. NOTE: all menus and review shots will then appear on the DVD player. |
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05/05/2008 09:40:02 PM · #9 |
Yeah, I knew you could use portable DVD players, but this screen was like 10x15 in size...fairly big so the pictures looked really good on it.
I don't know...
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05/06/2008 10:29:36 PM · #10 |
| I have a question. Why didn't you just ask the guy what it was? |
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05/08/2008 12:11:36 PM · #11 |
Canon's include the software to shoot tethered and display it on screen. You use the USB cable that came with the camera, the software is on the disk that came with the camera.
Not sure how the 30D does on this, but the 40D with the updated firmware will show the image on the camera LCD and the computer. The original firmware wouldn't display the image on the camera LCD- a PITA.
If you shoot JPG you can do it all remotely with an eyeFi card for around $200 (including CF adapter and a wireless router) then use any software to pull it up.
We've done this for events - I used to shoot tethered and my ass't/sales person would pull the images off my laptop via wirelss network. Since I got the eye fi card we don't need my laptop anymore. The eyefi card will transmit/transfer JPG files ONLY, so we generally shoot RAW+small jpg (for faster transfer). The eye fi card also has 2Gb of space so on a 40D I can do 130 or shots before I have to download, or lately for this stuff we've been shooting sRAW and jpg or just straight jpg.
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