canon on laptop

[mason]

Hi,

I am thinking of buying a canon 1000d and connecting it to the laptop. What i am wondering is after focusing using the live view on the laptop, can you start the image capture also using the laptop, or do you have to get a remote? cheers,

mason.

[Cornelius Varley]

The camera is supplied with a suite of software which includes a remote facility to allow you to control the camera from your laptop. The length of exposure allowed using the utility is 30sec.

Peter

[Psychobilly]

The 1000D and later canons can do any length long exposure you like with just USB Control using the supplied software and the Camera set to bulb and using the timer option in EOS Utils...

Earlier Canons were limited to 30s and required an additional remote release cable to do exposures longer than 30s and additional software.

Peter...

[Cornelius Varley]

The 1000D and later canons can do any length long exposure you like with just USB Control using the supplied software and the Camera set to bulb and using the timer option in EOS Utils...

Earleir Canons were limited to 30s and reuired an aditional remote release cable to do exposures longer than 30s and additional software.

Peter...

Thats good to know.

Peter

[Space Bat]

Yep setting camera to Bulb allows for indefinate exposure (until camera battery dies of course) which is timer controllable from the software either by manually sellecting start/stop to contol length or you can set it to do programmed timed exposures which is a great feature where you can for example run 20 exposures @ 120 seconds each.

Also the utility can be used to set AWB and ISO features.

Chris

[Herakles]

IIRC it also allows you to pick between ( or include both ) saving image data to HD or SD card.

[Psychobilly]

Yep it does I normally leave taht set to both...