MONITOR HOOKUP

I asked about this yesterday, and while I appreciate all the replies, I came away from them with a further sense of confusion than when I asked my original question.

So I am going to try again, and try to put it as simply as I can and hopefully, dear readers, your answers will be simplistic enough for me to understand, as well.

I have a Canon EOS 20D digital camera. I read on here a while back (and even saw a photo of the photog's setup) that it is possible to connect my 20D camera to a monitor, during a photo session, in order to either view the subject prior to or immediately after the shot. I want to do this since viewing the after shot photo on the tiny camera screen is difficult for me.

I am not looking to Photoshop the pic at this point, or do any other creative stuff to it. I just want to see it right after I shoot it. I don't care about the resolution of it or anything like that. I just want to be able to see it so I can make sure the subject had their eyes open, no extraneous lint on their clothes, etc.

Is this possible to do? I would rather not have to route the camera through a computer hooked to the monitor, but would rather go directly to the monitor.

This is not an EOS Capture situation. My question is very basic and on the very low end of sophistication. I am not looking for something fancy.

Thank you!

As it was mentioned before, you’ll get very poor resolution if you hook up camera to Monitor.
Much better solution is to hook it up to the Computer trough USB cable and Canon’s Remote Capture program, both supplied with your camera.

Ok sense your not getting the answear your looking for, here it is. Get the Video out cable that came with your camera. looks like a headphone jack on the camera end and an RCA style yellow plug on the other. Plug in the camera end then plug on the video end into the monitor of choice, lets say a small TV. Set the TV to the input source you pluged the coard into, most are input 1 or input 2 depending on whether the plug is on fron or back. Turn every thing on, now everything you see on the Cameras LCD will be desplayed on the TV monitor.

I am not sure that he’ll be able to take shots that way.
Never tried it but I believe that it works only for Playback mode..

Hermeto wrote in post #2502959
I am not sure that he’ll be able to take shots that way.
Never tried it but I believe that it works only for Playback mode..

It does only work for playback (or menu settings), echoing what's on the LCD, but I believe that's all he's asking for - to be able to review the image on a larger screen than the camera's.

Remote Capture software will allow you to set almost all shooting parameters trough the computer and give you a post-view in ZoomBrowser.
You’ll be able to see which focusing point was used and how accurate it was, between other things.
I will also allow you to save pictures directly to hard drive, not being limited with CF card capacity.

I could be wrong but I’ve taken enough tethered shots with Remote Capture and I like how it works.
Sample:

http://i5.pbase.com …7.1y7EcGfu.IMG_​0047_C.jpg

I just read your earlier post and If you dont want a TV then any stand alone flat screen monitor will work as long as has a Video in port, the yellow one that matches up to coard that came with your camera. Most newer flat screen monitor/TV's have standard video in as well as S-video, DVI, VGA, and composit video. You shouldnt have any problems finding one.

I'm bumping a 3 year old thread because I've run into a similar problem

When shooting tethered with my laptop (could be my laptop's processing speed: samsung nc-10) I notice that when using lightroom that it takes 5 seconds after an image is taken for the image to appear onto the screen without being fully rendered.

EOS capture behaves in a very similar manner (you have to run eos capture to enable tethered shooting in lightroom)

So the situation is this: I have just a generic flat panel monitor that i'd like to hook up with my old 5d. The only problem is that the monitor does not have avi inputs and only has the monitor cable.

I was thinking that in order to get this setup I would need
1) a female to female gender converter
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2) 5 foot cable: http://cgi.ebay.com …&ssPageName=STR​K:MEWAX:IT
3) Male to female receiver (to adapt to : http://cgi.ebay.com …&ssPageName=STR​K:MEWAX:IT

My worry is that this will not be long enough to reach my camera so that I have liberal movement while shooting. Any feedback of what I would be missing?