DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Tethering S90?

Started 11 months ago | Discussions thread
reyalp Regular Member • Posts: 201
Re: Tethering S90?
1

joniverson wrote:

One of the hitches I'm encountering with my macro set up is focus. The S90's view screen is just too small to see things like the edges, etc. I think someone had mentioned tethering capability in another thread, but what are the details- software needed, etc?

That was probably me. For PowerShots of that generation, the only way to tether is using the CHDK PTP extension https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/PTP_Extension and a client program that talks to it, usually chdkptp https://app.assembla.com/spaces/chdkptp/wiki (disclaimer: I'm the primary author of chdkptp, so I might be biased, but I'm not aware of other working alternatives)

With this, you can control the camera and display the contents of the camera screen on a PC. Windows and Linux downloads are available from the link above, Mac is possible but you have to compile it yourself.

There are some limitations: The display is quite low resolution, generally about 720x480 for cameras like S90, and the magnified area displayed when using camera MF ("MF Point zoom") is not available on the remote display.

I do have an mini to full HDMI cable on the way

Unfortunately, this almost certainly won't help: Except for some much more recent high end models, the HDMI out only supports playback. The standard definition out (using cable AVC-DC400 / AVC-DC400ST) can often be used in shooting mode, but only gives you NTSC/PAL resolution.

Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow