Use your cannon camera as webcam for your mac |Macgeneration
A month after the Windows version, Canon published a program for Mac yesterday which allows you to use one of its cameras as a webcam for your computer.Still in beta, eos webcam utility is free and requires macOS high sierra at least.
25 devices are compatible with this program, from the compact powerrshot G7 x III to the EOS-1D X Mark II reflex, including the EOS M50 hybrid.The full list is available on the Canon website.
After installing EOS Webcam Utility and a Mac restart, you must select the video mode from your camera, plug it into USB to its Mac, and select "EOS Webcam Utility Beta" in the video settings of its softwarevideoconferencing.If you had installed the EOS Utility application, not to be confused with EOS Webcam Utility, and that it launches automatically when you connect your device, close it.
On MacOS Mojave and Catalina, at this stage the cannon program is compatible neither with FaceTime, nor with safari, nor with the native versions of Skype, Zoom and Webex.On the other hand, we can take advantage of it with the web apps of Skype, Zoom and Webex in Chrome.
Fujifilm has released an identical utility at the same time for its cameras, Fujifilm X Webcam, but it is compatible only with Windows at present.Other manufacturers do not offer similar programs.Nikon advises to use the Third Ecamm Live software on Mac, for which we can have two free months when entering the "Nikoncreator" code.We can also cite the new Pro Webcam Casable.
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