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Controlling a DSLR with the Surface Pro

2013-02-20
surface pro comes with two 720p cameras one on the back and one on the front these are not professional quality at all so this is an lane for packing.com and in order to take some real professional quality pictures I'm going to use my surface pro to control a DSLR so over here I have camera control pro 2 for nikon that's the camera that i have connected as a d7000 you see there and i have it plugged into the USB port if i had a wireless adapter i could do this through Wi-Fi but i'm just gonna use a USB here and I have it set as a manual exposure mode so I can change things like aperture let's go for 1.8 exposure compensation flash all that stuff and you see my settings down here and we also have some more exposure controls over here I can choose the metering mode the ISO sensitivity and you know everything is pretty much controllable here I choose RAW format to press record to PC so that's gonna take a picture right to the tablet and all my controls are right there even movie controls now one thing I did is change the transfer options I'm gonna send the pictures to a folder on the tablet and I'm going to switch to live view so I can see what's going on and maybe these shutters should be a little slower and you can see the effect is changing in the live view you make a little brighter so there's the live view of my camera we see my hand is moving around and this gives us some cool options I can change the size of the viewfinder here auto rotate focus mode face priority and I can choose auto focus we can show a horizon line grid all that now here's a cool thing I can now I'm focused on that point and you see the screen is out of focus now I'm focused on the screen and then I'll just hit start and it's taking a picture and that is right here in bridge and I can hit open it in Camera Raw and now I can do some more adjustments let's do some lens profiling maybe a little exposure adjustment how about some white balance changes sure and there you go let's do that again I'm gonna focus on something else how about that keyboard right there and I just hit the shutter and we got another picture and you see the focus is right there so that is using these surface pro to control eight DSLR much better than these little built-in cameras which you should probably shouldn't be using for anything other than Skype video calling be sure to give this video a thumbs up and that's it for now
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