Images on TV?

[Hokum]

35 mm Photography has been my hobby for years, but I have been holding back on the move to digital because of resolution concerns. With the 3 and 4 Megapixel resolutions, I am ready to take the plunge. I have a few questions about using a TV to view the images, and I apologize ahead of time if they have been answered already ...

(1) Canon G1 comes with a video cable. Can I show the "photos" on a TV?

(2) If so, should the resolution be somehow optimized for TV when the photo is taken, or can a maximum resolution image be viewed fully on TV without further resizing on a computer?

(3) Does the remote control the playback as well?

As the readers can gather, I would like to plug the camera on my TV, sit down with a beer and show a "slide show" of my photos in the family room ... heheh.

Thanks (kiitos) PEKKA for a great site!

Teijo

[gerry]

you can do that.

Just don't spill any beer on the camera.

[Eric F.]

Hokum,

Answers are

1. You can show the pictures directly from the camera to any size TV as long as it has a video imput jack. If not you can run it through a VCR.

2. The higher the resolution seems to work better on my big screen TV, but I have never shot a picture in a lower resolution.

3. I can use the remote on playback and the camera will play back in slideshow style as well as simalar to viewing on the LCD. There is quite a section in the Users Guide, (pages 120, 122, 92-95) but who has time to read that. RIGHT! :p

As gerry says the beer should not be spilled directly on the camera. I can tell you that at the parties that I have taken my camera and made a lot of candid shots and then popped them on a TV, has caused a lot of beer to be spilled. A couple of events were brought back from the brink of death with a G1 show on TV.

Let me know how it goes.

[eco_roy]

I like to show my iamges on the TV. When my friends see the pics of themselves on the TV, they often feel it is so pleasant a moment for us to stay together. The only thing at this moment you should do is to take care of your cam!

Often, i check what i have shot through the TV screen when i do not take my notebook in hand. By this way, i can screen the pics to save the space of CF for taking more.

In a word, it is a nice and easy thing to do with your G2.


Eco_roy