I'm very new to this group, have been lurking for a just a couple months. You guys all seem so good at photography! Thank you for letting me in!
I would like to ask if anyone here knows how to view what is being seen through your DSLR camera (mine happens to be a Nikon D3100, but I will soon to be upgrading) on a computer, such as a laptop. Yes, I have watched a couple youtube videos on the topic, and can't seem to make it work. I would like to know if anyone here has done it, or has any experience with it. Do I need some bit of software? A special cord? I'm missing some vital piece here that I am not getting.
How this started is that I take a few images of the northern lights up here in Alaska. A friend, who is disabled, can't really stand for a long time at a camera, but really wants to try to take images also. We came up with there has to be a way to set a camera up to be able to view what is being seen through the view screen on a computer. I don't want to control the camera through the computer, just see what the camera sees.
Any ideas?