The 1Ds does have the facility to shoot tethered via a firewire cable although there is no video facility, shame, would be very useful for studio work. However, there may be some issues as have been mentioned on this list about possible added noise when shooting tethered. I noticed this on a shoot I did recently where some shots were done tethered and other shot to a CF card and down loaded to the laptop via a PCIMCIA card reader.
My conclusions are not conclusive on this issue so I will be doing some controlled testing and will let you know. But to bring this post back on subject, personally my laptop was probably the most useful IT purchase I've made in the last 2 years. Certainly if you are going to do any amount of shooting on location you will wonder how you every managed without it. Regards John Blythe On 3/12/03 1:25 pm, "Bob Smith" wrote: > use it for tethered shooting. I don't know how well > Canons do that. I bought my first laptop (PowerBook 2400) to go with my > first digital camera (some sort of high dollar Fuji point and shoot) > back in 97. Even that old Fuji was capable of tethered shooting via a > SCSI connection. I became hooked on the convenience of having a laptop > in the workflow and couldn't imagine life without one now. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
