Phillip Bloom wonders if iPad’s the best EOS HD field monitor on the market
Posted by DocumentaryTech on January 29, 2010 · 1 Comment
No sooner was the news out about the iPad that British cinematographer and Zacuto spokesman Phillip Bloom speculated on how, with the iPad “camera connection kit,” whether it might be a great in-your-lap director’s monitor for the EOS cameras and perhaps others.
We have all seen the announcement today of the oversized Apple iphone/ tablet thingy called the “ipad”. It looks the next gadget to have for sure…but what intrigues me is would it be possible to get an adapted version of the Canon live view software for the Mac onto the ipad, connect up a USB lead to the Canon HD-DSLR cameras and we would have a very nice monitor that doesn’t disable the camera’s LCD screen, like we can do with our laptops currently…I know it’s not running OSX but surely it must be possible…?!
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