Forum: Photography


Subject: Controlling a digital camera from a PC/Mac

wessexarch opened this issue on Aug 01, 2005 ยท 5 posts


Onslow posted Mon, 01 August 2005 at 10:22 AM

As above used G6 - however I don't find it to be sucessful. The image is transfered via a utility that comes with the camera called Remote Capture. All camera controls can be accessed. However the display on the pc screen is limited in size. This is fine until you use the zoom you then lose a % of what is visable in the viewfinder. The display gets more and more pixellated until it is virtually useless. Connecting to the pc switches off the camera lcd. In conclusion yes it does control all camera functions but you have to use the cameras viewfinder to compose your shot. If I am doing something wrong or anyone knows how to overcome this problem I would be interested. I have read and re read the help files and no joy there.

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