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It sounds like what you want is an Eye-Fi card. This will wirelessly transmit the photos you take as you walk round back to your PC. If you go for this option though you will need to use one of Canon's xxxxD or xxxD series cameras as it's SD Card only at the moment - no Compact Flash card option... (Thus, 7D / 5D series / 50D and before / 1D series can't ...
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USB 1.1/2.0 specifies a maximum cable length of 5 meters (~16 feet) as a function of a minimum required transmission speeds. That's pushing the limit, to some degree, and will be highly dependent on how well the cable is made, shielding, etc. If you're worried about reliability, I would go under that, probably no more than 3 meters (~10 feet).
USB 3.0 ...
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Based on the reading of the battery spec, no. The battery pack supplies 7.4v, while USB can only supply 5v. However, you can buy the ACK-E2 wall power kit to power the camera directly from a standard outlet.
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I have 2 12' long active repeater cables and a 6' usb cable I have successfully daisy chained ONE of them from an actively powered USB hub to control my Canon 5Dmk2. As far as I can tell, you can't put a second one on the chain without another power source. I have seen 16' repeaters advertised for ~20USD. So in my successful setup it was:
Mac -- 3' USB ...
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It's called tethered shooting, and is mostly used in studios; as you say, it's not exactly a portable setup. It has the advantage of letting you write photos direct to disk, bypassing the memory card, and as you said, you can see a photo preview large and on-screen before shooting, like a high-res version of live view.
Press photographers at football ...
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You must install EOS Utility to download pictures directly from the camera. Your computer will not recognize it as a generic drive. EOS Utility will also give you the ability to shoot tethered and control the camera from your computer.
Your other option is to use a card reader instead.
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Not to supplement but perhaps to complement.
Assuming you don't shoot like crazy, try to get enough cards for the photo trip. This should be your first copy of all your photos and bringing. Do not offload photos if you do not have to.
Then it makes sense to have an extra backup device. Some people use a computer's hard-drive or an external one (possible ...
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There are a number of software programs that will handle tethered shooting: Lightroom 4, Phase One software's Capture One (which will also wireless transmit images to an iPad using Capture Pilot. These are full blown editing suites however.
If you just want simple transfer, what about an Eye-Fi card? They have a direct mode which will send images ...
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Seems it is not possible
http://twitter.com/#!/davidobm/status/92622013805494272
"Pity that Canon's 5D MkII wireless adapter (WFT E4 II) WFT server mode doesn't support the ability to record video"
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Generally speaking, memory cards and usb storage drives are pretty comparably priced. So the real question is which would you have more use for long term? And will you reliably have any way to transfer images from your memory card onto the USB drive? Usually that's going to require a computer, and well, if you have computer you have a number of other ...
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So,
after digging around all day I found my camera :
Canon S70.
It is the only camera that comes close to the requirement list.
It is around 100$ on ebay.
It does not have a power socket, but there is this :
http://sterlingtek.com/st10-trav---canon-powershot-s70-power-adapter.html
On a side note, one of the reason I always preferred Canon was their
free ...
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On the Mac, preferences for what happens when you plug in a camera or a memory card, are controlled by an app called "Image Capture". iPhoto, Lightroom, etc can automatically put preference settings here, but sometimes they do not get done.
Plug in your 550D, then:
Search Spotlight (apple+spacebar)
for Image Capture. Select it and
run.
You should see your ...
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I have a Mac and a 550D/T2i and when I connect my camera (without having installed the software), the camera/photos show in iPhoto. Try plugging the camera in while it is OFF, opening iPhoto, switching the camera ON, and then hitting the "Play" button on your camera that you use to review photos.
You shouldn't need to install the software at all. I ...
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This is more a workaround or side effect than a real answer, but since I installed Magic Lantern to camera, I could not reproduce this issue anymore (I had a dozen of connections since). Probably counts as a possible solution.
UPDATE 1 - Another workaround: Disconnect camera, take a few shots (1-3), connect, try again. I discovered this by accident but it ...
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I think eyefi will transfer photos whenever there's a connection available, whereas shooting tethered (Wifi/wired/6dwifi) will only transfer photos while there is a connection avail.
If you want to shoot tethered (cable/wifi) the EOS utility has an option to open an application with the image given to it, via command line I presume. This could be an option. ...
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The Picture Control Utility is not compatible with low-end DSLRs (e.g. the D3?00 and the D5?00 lines), since it involves use of the function to copy Picture Control presets between the camera and the card – which was not included on these models.
However, the ViewNX software which also came in the bundle supports applying Picture Controls (default or made ...
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Canon recently applied an update to EOS Utility for Windows 8. Head over to their site at Canon Support and re-download EOS Utility 2.12.3 or later.
Step-by-step guide on my blog:
http://ideastocreations.blogspot.com/2013/01/tutorial-fix-canon-driver-issues-in.html
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After landed on this page some time ago and tried the above solutions and many others, I return with the one that finally worked (Taken from photography-on-the.net forum):
In Device Manager, do you see any other devices other than your camera under "Portable Devices"? Under mine, I have listed 4 removable media drives "SD, CF, etc.) that corresponded to ...
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After updating all my Canon software, EOS utility did not recognize my EOS 7D. After hours of uninstalling and installing German and English old and new versions of EOS utility and reinstalling the camera driver I found FAQ-ID 8201597200 on the canon website.
I uninstalled all CameraWindow Programs and EOS Utility, restarted the computer, installed EOS ...
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As I understand it, that camera does not offer that feature via any software. I did a little looking on gphoto2 forums, and in general it seems Panasonic's support for the PTP protocol used for USB communication is very rudimentary, on pretty much all of their compact camera models. So, basically: sorry, can't really be done.
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Apparently not. You can shoot video in tethered mode, but it first records to the memory card and then transfers to the computer when the recording has finished.
From the EOS Utility 2.9 for Macintosh Instruction Manual (EOS 60D):
You can control your camera from EU
[EOS Utility] and shoot movies from
your computer screen. You cannot
shoot ...
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A USB flash drive is a lot like a memory card except that you can't use it in your camera. They both are small, have limited capacity compared to a hard drive, and are about the same price.
A memory card will be much more useful to you as a photographer than a USB flash drive.
Since you suggested a USB flash drive I assume you are taking a laptop with you ...
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My rule of thumb for a multi-day trip is to use one card or less in a day so that if a memory card dies or is lost I will not lose all of my photos from the trip. It is rare for memory cards to die, but I have had 2 Lexar Pro memory cards corrupt images in the past 3 years. So a 10-day trip would require a minimum of 10 memory cards, my actual number is more ...
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In my experience working as a digital operator on pro photoshoots, cables longer than 5m start to have issues
5m is what I and many others I know work to as a maximum without adding repeaters and power boosters etc
Obviously buy the best quality cable you can afford it will help and try not to go over 5m
If you are looking at longer cables maybe you need ...
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The issue with the cable length is related to signal quality, some cable will work at lengths greater than 5 meters as previously stated, If you use a hub at the end of the first 5 metre cable the HUB effectively "cleans up" the D+ and D- lines and enables another length of cable to be added. up to 5 hubs can be daisy chained as also previously mentiond! ...
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I have a cheap ebay one (couple bucks?) that had 150x written on it. It read/writes my SanDisk Extreme III at 20 MB/s, even when the auction says it is much slower. Originally found out from a slickdeals thread where they did speed tests. Still going strong after a year.
The non 150x one I got is much slower at around 3 MB/s.
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I bought a really cheap (about $5 iirc) SIIG usb card reader at Frys Electronics. The MSRP is $17, but it was much cheaper in store. It works really well with sdhc cards.
Normally I get these types of items at Newegg.com, they have a great selection and good reviews.
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