Hello all, so I am not sure where to begin so I figured I would start here.

I work full-time for a company maintaining their website and shooting their products. It is catalog season here and now is the time the photography becomes full-time.

The studio I work in is pretty sweet and they are hooking up the ports so that I can access everything in there, including a personal line!!!

Anyway, I want to start shooting directly to the computer so that I don't have to shoot to a card, load the card to the computer then edit. I shoot with both Canon and Nikon (Nikon is my personal gear). The Canon that we use at work is a 30D.

Please let me know what I need to do this.

Thanks in advance!
Mike

OPen the box that the 30d came in and take out the utility cd and install EOS Utility. Then start the app and attach a usb cable from the camera to the computer. Then the second option from the bottom I think (don't remember the name but it's an obvious choice). And you're all set.

I dunno for the nikon but i'd assume that there would be included software.

Are you talking about being tethered when you shoot? In that case you will need the camera, a connection cable (or wireless setup), the special shooting software usually provided by the camera maker and of course, a compatible computer. You can control the camera from the computer or shoot through the camera. Controlling the camera from the computer can be interesting in some remote shooting situations because apart from triggering the shutter you can change all the usual settings: aperture, speed, ISO, white balance, exposure compensation.

You can also set up lightroom to auto import the directory that EOS Utility writes to.

Here is a post from Kelby's site.

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1207

He walks though the nikon process. All you need to do it set up EOS Utility to write to a directory, and set lightroom to watch that directory.

You can even have lightroom move the photos to somewhere else, so that folder just becomes a temp buffer.

Sorry I never replied here guys! I actually figured it out moments after I made the post and have been shooting that way at work since.