disabled & needing help!

[neal]

Hi all hope everbodys ok!

Ok here`s my situation, i had an accident 11 year ago which broke my neck & left me paralysed from the neck down.

I can use a a pc with a headset it has a pipe attached which if blow down it once it will single click or blow twice for double click & suck the pipe for right click if thats understandable!

I started getting into photography about 2 years ago but found it so frustrating not being able to controll the camera untill i bought my eos 400d.

Now the problem is i can`t see if the pic is in focus ect until it`s on my pc, & it`s all so stopped working alltogether now since i updated my system

so my question is why is it so hard to find simular software to the eos utilitys that disable people can use from a pc?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks

[Ffion]

Hi Neal! I can't answer your question, but hopefully someone here can. Welcome to CFF anyway, and I hope you'll enjoy it here!

Ffion

[jackie lant]

Hi Neal,
perhaps it would be worth sending a mail to canon,you never know they may have some good advice.

And welcome to the team i am sure you will find a lot of suport here.

Jackie

[neal]

Ffion thx for the reply the warm welcome

Hopefully something will crop up.

jackie lant again cheers for the reply the warm welcome

I`ve thought that to myself before but never gone through with it, s worth a shot

[Paul Iddon]

Welcome to the forums Neal, and we look forward to when a solution allows you to participate further.

Paul.

[Pete W]

Welcome to CFF Neal

[Mark W]

Hi Neal sorry I cannot help but welcome

[neal]

Thanks for the replys everybody hopefully there is something out there for me!

cheers everybody!

[Pete W]

Found these articles on the web. Not sure whether they are helpful or not though Neal..

Free Tethered Shooting for Canon digital SLR cameras

PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information Archive Tethered shooting in Lightroom

Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider Blog » Photoshop & Digital Photography Techniques, Tutorials, Books, Reviews & More Blog Archive Shooting Tethered From Your Camera Into Lightroom

http://xchange.phaseone.com/content/...3&languageid=1


Neal there are many articles on the web with regard to tethered shooting, also it looks like lots of the third party imaging software out there supports it to varying degrees...

However I am not sure how you can get the focus correct without being able to view through the view finder (other than hope the cameras Autofocus does its job) unless you can get one of the latest cameras with live view, this may help you. There are some adapters for viewfinders but I do not think they will help your situation...

good luck

[chrisy]

Hi Neal, welcome to CFF.

Are you a member of the DPS, Disabled photographers society. they might help you.

Chrisy

[Pete W]

Neal
Holmbridge has just started this thread

EOS utility use

Looks like cameras with Liveview can also show liveview remote on the PC. May be the answer you are looking for..

The EOS 500D has liveview
Canon EOS 500D Digital SLR Camera - Canon UK

[Pete W]

Hi Neal, welcome to CFF.

Are you a member of the DPS, Disabled photographers society. they might help you.

Chrisy

Here is a link Neal
Welcome to the Disabled Photographers society website

They may have some helpful info and save hours of searching...

Let us know how you get on and looking forward to seeing some of your work

[neal]

pete w cheers matey there should be something in that little lot, i`ll have to have a good read at that.
Is the live view on the 450d?

Chrisy yeah i joined the site last week but have`nt had much luck so far, thanks alot though!

Pete w thanks again some more homework!

Thanks again to everybody i`ll let everybody know how i go on.

[Pete W]

Neal
Yes the 450D does have liveview, so in theory you should be able to use it on your PC........ (Sorry I missed that)

Canon EOS 450D Digital SLR Camera - Canon UK

[Hadrian]

Eos Utility works great with Live View or you could try BreezeBrowsers camera control system.