Can my EOS 2000D be connected to a windows laptop to act like a remote monitor?

[Neville]

Hi Folks,

Let me first say I am an old man with a trauma induced faulty memory so I need slow and basic like talking to a child.  So abbreviations and acronyms like OTOH (which I read in a reply to someone else’s post) will only confuse me and send me off hunting for their meaning and I will forget what made me go looking and never find my way back to what I was doing to start with.

I am thinking of doing some “how to do’s” for my grandkids, but when I’m sitting in front of the 2000D it means I cannot see what is in the viewfinder. So then I thought about connecting a screen to the HDMI out, to link my camera sort of like a "flip out" screen or remote screen from the camera if that were possible.

I do have a laptop running on windows 10 and wondered could these be linked via their HDMI sockets, or do I need to buy a dedicated screen?

 Is this possible or do I need a special interface to do this.

Thanks in advance.  

[Ron888]

Hi Neville,welcome to the forum!
A simple HDMI connection will allow you to see on a big screen exactly what you see on the camera's rear screen.Is that ok?
Two important details:
-You will need the correct type of HDMI cable.Your 2000D will likely be a HDMI type C .Best to look that up to be sure
-Once connected you'll need to select HDMI input on the computer or TV screen

[Neville]

Hi Ron,

I had tried that but was not actually giving any real thought to the ports possibly being output only, and everything was blank hence comming on here and asking.

Thanks anyway.

Neville

[normadel · Accepted solution]

That's incorrect.

The HDMI port on a laptop is an OUTPUT port for, like,  connecting to a TV for big-screen viewing. You cannot feed from the camera INTO the laptop port.

Connecting camera to a TV via an HDMI cable (if the TV has HDMI inputs) is how you can view photos and movies you have shot.  This is NOT for viewing what is in the camera's viewfinder or on its rear screen.

See the User Manual page 207, "Image Playback". Download it if you don't have it.

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/cameras/eos/eos-2000d.html?type=manuals&langu...

You CAN use a program called EOS Utility  to connect to a computer via USB cable and view what is on the camera's rear LCD screen. Here it is for your camera:

https://www.canon.com.au/support/sims-content?pid=7b3db57141704e0a8d45bcd362e0d980&cid=C0562A0B1B094...

EOS Utility is a camera remote-control application that you can use for numerous other things too.

[Neville]

Hi N,

Thank you very much for that info, I have downloded from both links and will give them a try over the next couple of days.

Neville

[stevet1]

Neville,

Normadel is right. The HDMI port on your computer is an output port.

The easiest way I can see to accomplish what you want to do is to get a second camera, and put it on a tripod  looking over your shoulder and zoomed in on your camera screen.

Make a video of you changing settings and altering your controls. If you try telling your grandkids, "You change the shutter speed by hitting your Q button and tap your shutter speed", they are likely to ask, "What's a Q button and where is it located?" "What do you mean, Tap the Shutter Speed?"

By taking that video with the second camera, they can actually see you pushing the buttons you are talking about.

You can take that video you made, and either play it back on a TV set by way of the HDMI port on your camera and the HDMI port on your TV, or you can play that video on a computer by using the HDMI port on your camera and have the other end of the HDMI cable plugged into an HDMI capture card.

The HDMI capture cards are cheap. They run $10 - $15. They have an HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. You plug the HDMI cable in one end, and the USB port into your computer.

Steve Thomas