Taking some window portraits recently gave me a chance to try out Canon’s tethered remote shooting software. Its Mac version didn’t have an option to display the freshly taken photos, so I wrote a quick shell script to open each incoming image and gave it the requisite cute Mac name.
It watches the Pictures/Canon directory (this can be changed in the script), and opens new photos with whatever your default JPEG viewer is (usually Preview). This can take up a bit of memory if you don’t start closing the windows, but it’s quite handy for seeing what you really got in the shot on the big screen.
To use it, save the file and double-click it. To stop it, close the Terminal window it opens, or press Control-C.
