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Hi, in looking at the canon s400 I noticed it had AV out... well i know it plugs into your TV, but what exactly do you then see on your TV?
Would it be possible for someone to take a picture of their TV with it connected or something, or somehow help me understand exactly how connecting it to your TV works/is benefical/functionality ![]() Thanks! |
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It shows whatever's on your LCD. Good for scrolling through in playback mode and displaying images/movies for people to see. I took a bunch of phots at Thanksgiving and at the end of the day I hooked the camera up to the bigscreen. Everybody got a real kick out of seeing the kids making goofy faces and so on.
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Is it at all possible for you to take a picture of how it looks on your TV with another camera or something?
Do the pictures that are displayed on the TV come out better/worse/same than on the LCD? |
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They come out much bigger ![]() Seriously, they look as good on my 42-inch plasma screen as they do on the camera's LCD - sometimes they look better. -Steve |
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Would you consider it a good feature to have? I can think of it being quite nice especially with this upcoming christmas to just load pictures up on TV at the end for everyone to see.
I have a 51"... the pictures wouldn't be displayed "too big" would they? |
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You can also use a wonderful bit of software called TVWriter from www.satsignal.net, which takes ANY jpeg and converts it to a suitable size, format, and naming convention, ready to write on to your camera's memory card. If your camera has a TV output, you can then inflict your life's work, sales presentation, political platform, holiday snaps., etc., complete with captions, on any poor unsuspecting captive audience that owns a telly. Your digicam becomes a poor man's laptop+computer projector, or poor man's computer+state-of-the-art lecture theatre. You can also make videotape slideshows, with a commentary, and then you have a poor man's still image camcorder. You can post the videotapes to anyone with a VCR and a TV. You can do the equivalent of a slide show, and you don't even have to be there. |
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Since TV shows what's on your LCD, you can connect camera to VCR and easily tape silent video - or, record video on your camera first, switch it to playback mode, and then tape it on VCR. Some people say you can use your camera as a webcam, if your computer videocard has AV input.
Thanks for the link, Alan. Looks like a cool program. I wonder if it can be the answer to those who had problems uploading images back to their cameras. |
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What is necessary when writing files back to the camera is to put them back in a suitable file structure, or the camera won't find them. I fixed this by taking a single camera shot on an empty, camera-formatted memory card, and then writing the TVWriter files alongside it in the same directory. |
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I use the feature a lot, but as my father says, it can never take place of his slide projector and its ambience..
![]() Anyway, it was a "must" for me before purchase, and it's now a great pleasure for me and those who can't watch TV and have to look at your masterpieces (!) while you are showing your albums to them ![]() |
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