TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Just one additional comment. If you chose to go the cable route, you’ll need an active cable beyond 5M (~15’) length to get consistent results. Also, use a single cable rather than joining shorter lengths (the connectors cause reflections which can cause errors)

PoppieJ Loc: North Georgia

thanks for all of the good information. I think that I am ready to give this a try. will let you know how it works out for me

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

This is a practical method of shooting if you are doing landscapes or still life or posed portraits or shooting any other type of immobile subject. It's not practical for any sort of active, moving subject where timing is critical.

But if you are making photos where you have time to carefully compose, it's pretty easily done. Canon's "EOS Utility" allows you to control the camera remotely either wired (USB cable) or wirelessly. Look on the Canon website to see if it's available for your particular tablet or computer operating system.

Edit: There also is "Canon Connect" now, a relatively new software that has similar functionality but is designed with mobile devices (phones and tablets) in mind and has an interface more like a phone's camera. Canon Connect appears to work with a wider variety of their cameras, but I haven't otherwise compared it to EOS Utility (which I have used, typically tethering with a wired connection, not Wifi).

Canon also is providing a Webcam Utility now, but I don't think that's what you want.

If you're using a camera with built-in WiFi, you'll need to be able to use that so long as you are relatively close to the camera. Internal Wifi does use some of the camera's battery power. Turning off the camera's LCD screen while working from the tablet might help offset that, but you still may want to take an extra battery, just in case.

If you want to work at greater distance that may be possible, too... But built in Wifi doesn't have much range so you will likely need an accessory such as Canon's WFT "Wireless File Transfer" Transceiver (expense, if they even make one for your camera). An mush more affordable and universal alternative that gives similar range is Camranger. These are compatible with many Canon cameras (also most Nikon and some Sony, if I recall correctly). Google their website.

Remote controlling of the camera is pretty easily done. If you also wan to transfer full size image files from the camera to the computer, built-in Wifi is too slow. You'll need the more powerful WFT or Camranger for that. (It's possible to configure software like Lightroom to automatically import images as they're taken, too. This can be used as a remote viewing station for clients, with a modest delay between when the image is taken and when it is viewable on-screen.)