View photos instantly on my lappie?

[selwonk]

Folks

I've got a 350D and I'm playing with exposure and aperture settings whilst I'm learning. Is there any way that I can hook the camera up to my laptop so that as soon as I take a photo, it will appear on the PC instantly? I usually use Picasa to import and manage my photos, but I do have all the Canon software installed on the PC. I can't see that this will allow me to do this, but I might have just missed something

Thanks in advance

[hawkaye]

This can't be done with the 350D. The 40D does it, but that's not much help.

[selwonk]

Bugger - that's a shame! Not to worry - it's not the end of the world

Thanks for the quick reply!

[JD]

im sure you do something similar as I have done this with my 350D!

Plug in the camera and click the remot shooting thing

then snap away and the photos upload straight to the PC

[robbieduncan]

It can certainly be done with a 400D so I imagine you can do it with a 350D as well...

[hawkaye]

hmm, thinking about this it could be done if the 400D does it. I was thinking you wanted to see what you were shooting live on the laptop. The 40D has live view which allows you to see on a computer exactly what you can see through the viewfinder.

[robbieduncan]

hawkaye said:

hmm, thinking about this it could be done if the 400D does it. I was thinking you wanted to see what you were shooting live on the laptop. The 40D has live view which allows you to see on a computer exactly what you can see through the viewfinder.

OK a 400D can't do that. Using the Canon software you can shoot in tethered mode and dump the images shot live to a folder. Then all you need is software than monitors the folder...

[selwonk]

Ok - there is some software called CameraWindow which is on the Canon CD, but this seems to be a bit flaky under Vista. However, this software seems to work:

http://www.breezesys.com/DSLRRemotePro/index.htm

Does what I was hoping - allows you to control exposure etc. and instantly shows the resultant image. Only problem is, it seems to crash when running certain aperture/exposure combinations