The DSLR Remote Pro from Breeze Systems is an easy to use and great program that controls your Canon EOS DSLR camera and allows you to change settings using your computer.
Ease of Use, Performance: 24/25, Look & Feel: 22/25,
Features 24/25, How much I enjoy 25/25
Total: 95/100
The DSLR Remote Pro is a fantastic and very easy to use program that remotely controls your Canon EOS DSLR camera easily from your computer. The Remote Pro does a great job and easily controls your camera from your computer. Set up is easy and takes a few seconds, far quicker and easier than the EOS programs from Canon.
Installation takes just a few minutes and handles all aspects of downloading and remotely controlling your DSLR camera. The Remote Pro program works with a broad range of DSLR cameras. The program works with Canon EOS digital cameras such as the Canon Rebel XT and D models.
Features from the Breeze website:
Control Canon DSLR cameras from a PC
New! Display live images on the PC screen (Canon EOS-1D Mark III, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III or Canon EOS 40D only)
New! Auto focus and manually control focus from a PC (Canon EOS-1D Mark III, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III or Canon EOS 40D only)
New! Photobooth mode: automatically take a sequence of photos and print them out – ideal for parties and corportate events
See large high quality previews of shots on your PC within seconds
Enable customers to view pictures while you continue shooting
Increase control for time lapse photography
Preview images in black and white or color
Automatically bracket up to 15 shots by varying the shutter speed or aperture
Store images directly onto the hard disk of a PC ready for onward transmission (e.g. by FTP to a picture desk)
Automate addition of IPTC data to images as they are downloaded
The programs that come with the Canon Eos cameras are separate and require updating before using it with Windows Vista. I have had problems working with the EOS Utility and my Canon EOS Rebel XT without doing the several updates of all the separate programs. With the DSLR Remote Pro program all you have to use to get the Canon Eos camera working remotely is the DSLR Remote Pro program and the USB WIA driver from Canon. This is the easy way to remotely control your Canon EOS camera and do the things you want. To take professional studio quality digital photos with all the adjustments you want the Breeze Systems DSLR Remote Pro is great.
Once installed you have the sections of camera control for aperture, ISO speed, white balance and all the other settings your camera can adjust right from your computer screen. You do not need to worry about camera shake while taking that picture remotely and using the Remote Pro makes getting that white balance and aperture settings easy.
Looking at the small LCD screen on a camera for a product shot or portrait does not give you the needed focus or dimension of what the picture will look like when it is printed or used on a computer. Using a remote program like Remote Pro makes sure you have the necessary control you need to see what you are going to get in print or on the computer screen and not on the small LCD screen or through the viewer of your camera.
The Remote Pro allows you to adjust all the settings and correctly frame and position your subject normally or through the use of a grid system and even brackets that you can alter how you want. Change the color and size of the grid lines to position and keep a perfect reference for shots whether for products or group photos or even panoramic shots.
The Remote Pro allows you to sharpen images right from the computer as well as blank the screen prior to shooting pictures so light from your computers monitor does not alter the image. The settings like bracketing, focal points and continuous shooting are features that are great for my line of work, product shooting.
The free software that comes with your Canon Camera has some of the features of the DSLR Remote Pro while some are just basic versions of the more complete and fuller featured Remote Pro program. If you take product shots, portraits or studio photographs the DSLR Remote pro is the kind of fully featured remote program you need.
I highly recommend the Breeze Systems DSLR Remote Pro for remotely controlling your Canon EOS DSLR camera.
