How do I enable tethered shooting instead of USB storage mode on my camera?
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When I connect my camera to a computer over USB, it switches to a busy/storage mode and is treated like an external drive, so I can't take photos normally. I have Magic Lantern installed and want to trigger the camera and transfer images while it's connected. How can I set up tethered shooting, and does Magic Lantern affect this?
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You need to use some sort of software that can perform tethered shooting. Simply plugging a camera into the computer's USB port will by default, as you've discovered, treat the camera/card like an external drive. You must have and run an application that can recognize a Canon dSLR and communicate with it to transfer/display files for shooting.
Something like Adobe Lightroom, or Canon's on free EOS Utility will work for this, for camera models they support (there may be some they do not, so which camera model you're using is necessary to determine if you can do this.
Magic Lantern does not add tethering capability to any camera or software application that cannot do it.
Alternatively, some wi-fi enabled cameras that cannot be tethered to a computer (e.g., the M2), can communicate with the smartphone/tablet Canon Connect app.
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Simply connecting the camera by USB usually makes the computer see it as a storage device unless you use tethering software that can control the camera.
For Canon cameras, the usual solution is Canon EOS Utility. After EOS Utility connects, the camera should return to normal operation and you can use Remote Shooting to trigger the shutter and send images directly to the computer. If you want to view images on-screen as you shoot, you can have EOS Utility save to a folder watched by software like Canon Digital Photo Professional or Adobe Lightroom.
Magic Lantern does not add tethering support by itself. Tethering depends on whether your camera model is supported by the software.
If EOS Utility doesn’t support your camera, third-party options such as digiCamControl (Windows) or Entangle (Linux) may work with some models. So the key points are: use dedicated tethering software, and confirm that your specific camera model supports tethered shooting.
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