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Originally Posted by davewaldo
Can these timers be used when the camera is tethered to a laptop?
ie. Can you set it to take a bunch of 5 minute frames and they will automatically download to the PC?
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Yes, it can.
I was using it with FocusAssist (
http://www.xmission.com/~jstanley/focusassist/), and it downloaded both jpg (recognised and displayed on the screen by this software) and CR2 file.
However, I would not recommend this method, because:
- if you have laptop connected already , then you should use one of the software timers (like Canon's utility).
- USB cable, connected to camera while exposing and downloading the images was reported to cause noise, visible on the images (I noticed the slightly increased noise floor in form of banding).
BTW, the whole purpose of those little gadgets is to AVOID the necessity of having laptop in the field..