Perhaps not the best self portrait in the world but it is a start. The real reason I have posted this is not show off my wonderful face but rather to celebrate that I have got my camera to shoot. The story is really quite boring and so will fit in just right on this blog (I hope that is not the reaction of the reader but I just don't know!)
Anyway, the story. As part of the flash development I decide I needed to shoot tethered as this would give me greater feedback than the small LCD on the back of the camera. I tried to set it up last Tuesday. However, whilst the software installed it kept failing. After a frustrated hour or so I decided to call it a day. I duly reported my frustration at the course meeting the next day - much the the amusement of a certain Mac user(You know who I mean KL!).
I gave this matter some thought on Thursday and decide the only way forward was to uninstall the software and install the latest software that had come with one of my 40D. I checked the software and yes it was for Vista - the other software had come with me aging 5D and didn't support Vista. I had tried to down load the latest software from the canon site but clearly this didn't work.
So there I was today (Friday) surrounded by camera boxes, CD, cameras and my laptop. It took a while to uninstall the previous versions, I had installed all the packages on the disk. I then installed the new software and after a few false starts it worked. The I am using Adobe Lightroom to view the photographs on the laptop and this works really well. I have to say that it is not exactly straightforward setting up Lightroom to shoot tethered but once you have gone through all the steps it does work well, apart from the fact I cannot get the software to convert into DNG. If you want to see who to do this then view the excellent video on this from Lightroom for Digital Photographers.
So now to making best use of this new skill/set up.
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