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Using Canon Digital Camera as a webcam

I've recently bought a new Canon digital webcam and would like to know how to use it as a webcam too.

I can't find any help on this in the camera manual and google hasn't helped much yet either.

Surely such a simple thing is possible??

Many thanks!

P.S The camera is a Canon S3 IS
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." Amos Bronson Alcott

Comments

  • xplo5iv
    xplo5iv Posts: 76 Forumite
    Afraid not. To use as a webcam the camera needs to stream the video output, whereas most digital camera act as a hard drive when attached to a pc, allowing the PC to download pre-recorded files.(i.e. pictures or video) They need to be designed as a webcam to be a webcam.

    Jonathan
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