- Update July 6 2015: Canon SDK update with support for EOS 5DS/760D/750D.
There is a nice little free program called EOS Camera Movie Record that allows you to capture 5x live-view video from your camera, which is the best way to do planetary photography for most Canon DSLRs (with the exception of 550D and 60D which have the superior “video crop mode”). There are better programs like BackyardEOS to do this, but they are not free.
In any case, I sometimes want to use it but don’t want to carry a laptop, so I tried it with my wife’s Windows Tablet. It worked, however the buttons were too tiny to hit without a mouse. Fortunately, the software is open-source, so I build a custom binary with larger buttons. Here it is in case anybody needs it.
Download EOS Camera Movie Record 0.3.3 beta – Tablet Tweak b2
(Changes: Larger buttons, links to the latest Canon SDK with 7D mk II/5DS/760D/750D support)
Tip: With some Tablets & Laptops, EOS Camera Movie Record might show a behavior where its frame rate drops dramatically after a while. The workaround on my tablet is to restart EOS Camera Movie Record after I have done my focusing & targeting, and immediately uncheck the “show captured image” option.