keeperseeker wrote in post #15369906
o k,,hope this is right place. thinking of getting a cell and laptop. been out of tech loop for last few yrs. need some advice on what to look for.
Use canon t3i,,expanding some time soon to newer i.e 7d or full frame, do a lot of bird, landscape, macro bugs and mushrooms shots. Also spend a lot of time out in the boonies away form home and out of cell range.
Ideals on cell for photo apps. ,
and if the smaller tablets are o k for reviewing phots in the field {not any serious editing} or are laptops better for size and speed? Also enlarging view from the 3" camera screen for foucs aid. Don,t need i depth replies just some guidance so i can explore in productive directions to start.
Thank you for any help. by the way good and usefull more important then cheap.
Going back to the items in bold...
For the first, as to "reviewing photos in the field", there is I'd say plenty of flexibility, to me the key would be having a display that is of good quality. I done events where I had a small tablet-type of device that I could pack with me, and then I would pack a large (expensive) laptop in my vehicle or motel room, this laptop I especially had equipped for photo processing/developing (at a $2k price), it was "fully loaded" so that when needed I could process and output photos "on the fly". The display was one thing of importance to me...a "photo-friendly" display.
As to the "Also enlarging view from the 3" camera screen for foucs aid" part, well, that's a different matter entirely, if you are talking about a "real-time" display that you can check in the middle of actually shooting. I've seen some elaborate "rigs", although the only thing I've actually had any experience with was a "right angle adapter" that just fits over the viewfinder and magifies the viewfinder image a bit.
But as far as being able to view your shooting in-progress, the "standard" approach it to attach the camera to a computer using either the supplied USB cable or, there are more "fancy" wireless devices and then to use an app such as the Canon EOS Utility software and with that connection you can do "tethered" shooting. With this approach you can actually view the image using the camera's "Live View" function, adjust your focus, control the camera, etc.
Tethered shooting is typically done with a laptop, since you need either a laptop or larger to handle the software.
However, I don't have one of the new gadgets with more wireless capabilities, maybe some have gadgets that can connect to a newer camera with wireless capabilities?
