Friday, February 8, 2008

Shooting tethered with the Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII

The excitement of getting hold of a new camera can often be tempered by the frustrations encountered when having to learn how to work with a new piece of kit. First off I must say that I have so far been delighted with the EOS 1Ds MkIII camera in terms of the camera�s design and image quality. Canon have made a number of significant improvements that are very welcome. Although there have been some teething problems, the good news is that I have managed to overcome most of these. The main one though has been trying to get the Canon camera to work smoothly with the new Intel 24? iMac that I bought at the same time as the camera, which has also proved difficult to set up in the studio, but more of that later.

Working in tethered mode with the EOS 1Ds MkIII
If you have been accustomed to working with the EOS Viewer Utility with EOS Capture (as described in my previous article on tethered shooting with Lightroom)then you are going to have to change to the newer EOS Utility that is designed for all tethered operations with later EOS digital SLR camera models including the EOS 1Ds MkIII.

You can install EOS Utility from the CD that comes with the camera, or download it via the Canon website. Once you have done that, here are the recommended settings to use:

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