eos utility

[Busted Knuckles]

I have to admit, I never used this software, always used the card reader. Is it useful?

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@barneboy: According to your description I recognize the behavior from when the camera isn’t connected (or when it’s connected but not turned on). First thing to check is that you have the camera switched on.

@Busted Knuckles: I had only EOS Utility/DPP for a year or so until I installed Lightroom. Today LR has replaced the RAW file editing, but I still use EOS Utility/DPP for downloading to the computer, for a first quick sorting out failed photos, and for tethered shooting. I simply like Canon’s software better for these tasks, otherwise LR is superior in most aspects.

[jrw]

@BustedKnuckles I use the EOS utility a fair amount for tethered macro shots of tested specimens at work. It is the only way I know of for turning on the in-camera lens corrections. It is also handy for keeping my camera clocks close to synchronized as I have turned on the feature that automatically resets the clock times every time I plug in. This is handy to me when travelling, as my laptop resyncs to match the timezone of where I am at, but the camera doesn't do that automatically. I do use the USB connection for downloading to my laptop as it doesn't have a CF reader and a card reader may be faster, but is one more thing to carry around or in my case leave behind somewhere. I also find it more convenient to shoot tethered when checking the AF adjustments in a 100% view screen. The focus adjustments correspond very well to the AFMA adjustments.