Can a Canon EOS Rebel T3i record directly to a USB hard drive?
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Can the Canon EOS Rebel T3i, or similar Canon DSLRs like the 60D, connect directly to a USB hard drive and save photos or HD video to that drive without using an SD card? If not, is there any supported workaround for recording or transferring files to external storage?
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Supposedly, the 60D and T3i both allow you to hook up a USB hard drive and shoot directly to the drive without using an SD card.
Your information is incorrect, there is no support in either the Canon 60D or the Canon T3i for being able to hook up a USB drive directly to the camera and shoot directly to it (still photographs or video) without some intermediate hardware in between (read: a computer).
If this is true, second question: Does it work with HD video recording?
Since it is not true, this means that by default the answer to your second question is also 'no.'
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No. The Canon T3i does not support connecting a USB hard drive directly to the camera to record stills or HD video without an SD card. The same applies to the 60D.
If you want files to end up on a hard drive, the supported workaround is tethered shooting through a computer using software such as Canon EOS Utility or, for some models, Lightroom. In that setup, the camera connects to the computer, and the computer saves the images to its internal drive or an attached external USB drive.
Direct-to-drive recording from the camera itself is not supported. So the answer for HD video is also no, unless you are using a computer as the intermediary in a tethered workflow.
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