Slideshow software

[Britman]

Sup,
I have an Eye-fi card and I've managed to get it working in my 40D, after stripping a SD-CF adapter of it's metel cover. Anyway I'm after a slideshow software that will monitor a folder and then display the latest uploaded picture on the screen. It must be able to do this automatically without any interaction from me.

A simple watch this folder and display latest picture full screen.

Can't seem to find anything.

cheers

[Tony]

If you have Lightroom, that will do it - it's in File > Auto Import settings, you can specify a watched folder and it will update and auto import to LR when a new image appears, once you have it set up, run the slideshow or just put the latest pic full screen and it'll update as they come in - you can also add some develop settings as well as save them as a preset.

A free version is a bit more involved, but you can get the software here http://www.eventphotographersociety.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=160 also think Jalbum has a server mode that will do it (or it's linked in with the above)

[Britman]

cheers Tony, been a while since I setup a server but going to give it a go tonight.

[Tony]

How did you get on?

I got a booking for an event next week, and I think Im going to use this across a few laptops

[Britman]

Never got it to work Tony, as it's based on Jalbum it displays images like Jalbum which isn't what I wanted.

[Tony]

won't zoombrowser do that? or does it show the thumbs of the other pics as well - been a while since I've used it.

[Britman]

I will have to try that.

[Britman]

Just tried Zoombrowser, it's no good, it would appear that you have to pre-select all the images for the slide show. Unless there's a setting that lets you watch a folder Zoombrowser is another fail.