 If you have a Canon camera and you use e-cam live, then it may be easier to connect them than you think. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, I'm going to talk to you very briefly about the compatibility of Canon cameras with e-cam live. I currently use a Canon EOS 60D, a 10 year old camera. And I had been using that with prior to me using e-cam live. I know there were, I can't believe it, but there was a time before I used e-cam live. It wasn't that long ago either. It feels like I've been using it for a lifetime. But anyway, so I did download the Canon EOS webcam utility to enable me to plug my Canon camera over USB into my computer and use it as a webcam for my Zoom meetings and team meetings and so on. And so then when I started using e-cam live, I had been previously using an inferior product, which I won't mention on this stream, on this video. When I started using that, and obviously use my Canon camera for that. And I kind of assumed that I was being able to do that because of the Canon EOS webcam utility. I thought that that's how the signal was getting into e-cam live. At some point over the past few weeks, I mentioned this to Doc Rock, either on a live stream in the chat or in his office hours, something like that. And he just kind of dropped in the comment at some point, probably didn't even realize he'd mentioned it, but that of course, e-cam live can just recognize Canon cameras. And I kind of stopped for a moment, nodded in agreement, sort of still thinking about it to myself. And it sort of stuck with me. And I'm just now in the process of setting up a new computer, so installing all of the different programs and things like that that I am going to need. And I came to the Canon EOS webcam utility, which was on my list and thought, well, do I really need that now? So I'll just double check and record that comment from Doc. And so sure enough, plugged my camera in and it does just show up immediately in e-cam live. Canon EOS 60D, it's right there. So I don't really need the Canon EOS webcam utility. So I thought I'd just double check on exactly why this is. And if you go to this particular page, which I shall leave in the description below for e-cam live in the e-cam live manual, where it's talking about camera mode and basically all the different ways that you can connect to camera or all the different cameras you can connect. In here, we have a section which says Canon DSLR cameras via USB. And here is the paragraph. You can now use your Canon DSLR camera with e-cam live without any extra hardware or software. Connect your Canon DSLR to your Max USB port. Your camera will now be an option in e-cam lives camera menu. And then it does go on to say some Nikon DSLRs may be recognized by e-cam live, but the quality will not be high. No other brands of DSLR or mirrorless camera are supported via USB. One caveat to that is that I think that the Sony ZV-1 is recognized because that actually itself has a built in USB out so that it can connect to your computer quite simply over USB. And I also believe that the ZV-E10 will, at some point, maybe not immediately, not sure, Canon Glenn, the Twins, the creators, masterminds of e-cam live. On their recent monthly live stream, that question came up and they said that they may have to go in and add the little bit of code specific to the ZV-E10. But basically those would also work over USB. But it means that you can just basically plug in any Canon camera that you've got and or maybe not any camera. I'm not sure exactly how far back this goes, but certainly the bulk of them and it just simply work over USB. So it means that you don't necessarily need to have a capture card. I'm only doing all of my videos over USB. You may get higher picture quality, perhaps, if you've got one of the sort of higher end canons or later models of Canon. So at some point when I do upgrade my camera, although I will be jumping ship to the Sony tribe, I'm afraid. But when I eventually do, then I'll do that over a capture card so that I can get the proper 4K signal out. But there you go, a short and sweet video today just for anybody who's got a Canon camera. I will also leave a link to the video that I did all about the Canon EOS webcam utility because that is still useful if you want to just use your Canon camera as a webcam in Zoom, for example. And if you're not on the pro plan of E-CAM Live, which of course gives you the virtual camera. So I'm just gonna be doing all of my meetings now through E-CAM Live, which I've been doing anyway, really, and that means that I'll get all of the, this camera signal will come into E-CAM Live and then that will feed into Zoom. 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