How to use computer monitor as live feed for digital camera?

[MoreDents]

Hello, I have the Canon Elph 300 digital camera and I want to use my computer monitor as a live display so I can easily preview self portraits, etc

Is there a software that will allow me to use the mini-USB to computer USB cable (that comes with my digital camera) so I can use the camera like a webcam?

I mean, what's stopping me from making this $250 camera as convenient as a $20 webcam?

FYI: not that I want to use it as a webcam, it's mainly so I can have a nice large 24" live display of what I'm shooting, etc

 

[ococ]

Lightroom does tethered shooting with my Canon 5DMII But that might be overkill for what you need.

 

[MoreDents]

Lightroom does tethered shooting with my Canon 5DMII But that might be overkill for what you need.

Is that the term for what I'm looking for? Tethered shooting?

 

[ococ]

Yes...and it looks like Canon's EOS Utility does it, if you can get your hands on the discs.

 

[ococ]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Cano...=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=6af0f014ae16db6c

try that 2nd or 3rd link from Jibble. I didn't read it but it may do what you need.

 

[MoreDents]

Thanks for the link but my camera isn't a SLR, just a point and shoot...
Will still work?

 

[ococ]

hmm...maybe not: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=883297
look around. sorry, dont have time right now to look further. will check back later.