Can I link my Canon 400d to a laptop to see the images as they're taken? If so, how?

[SlowSteve]

Hello all.

This is one of those very stupid questions I suspect, but I have read the instruction book and found no answers.

I need to take a big set of pictures and it would be good to see how they are actually turning out on the screen, rather than just on the little LCD.

Is there a way of hooking the camera up to a laptop and have it display the images as they are taken? I have a feeling I need a thing called a PC Sync cable, but unsure what specific software I need on the computer, and if I need to set anything up in the camera, or if it's a plug'n'play sort of system.


Thanks for any advice to a probably trvial question?

Thanks

Steve

 

[jennifer]

The software to do this comes bundled with your camera.

 

[Euan]

don't you just need the usb cable and eos utility?

 

[jaz9521]

Nice program is DSLR remote Pro

 

[Alastair]

EOS Utilities and the USB A-B, both should have been in the box.

 

[jovialjester]

EOS Utilities and the USB A-B, both should have been in the box.

And if you load dpp too, you can run EOS utilities from within it and see all the lovely histograms etc, did this last weekend and was very helpful, saved automatically to memory stick attached to lappy too, shame my mate then went and lost it, good job I backed up the 450 shots separately off the cards instead of deleting them as he suggested