You might look at Phase One's Capture One software. I do not know about other brands, but Olympus has its proprietary software called Studio Capture for the E-1. The camera is able to be set from the storage to the control mode so that the computer gets the image directly.
When I worked for one particular studio, we used a Kodak back on a Nikon Pronea based camera and fed the images into PS 5.

Thanks for the info. I will check it out. What I have in mind is the photo instantly comes up so the photographer can review it. Is this what you were doing with photoshop? I would be interested in hearing how this works if it was.

Thanks,
String

ps. I love Williamsburg, I hope to go back soon.

Nikon Capture can work with a tethered Nikon camera, saving all the images to the computer instead of a compact flash card. Each image when captured is then viewable on your monitor. But you cannot see a preview before capture, and the images come up slower than if you had transferred them over manually using a card reader. Working tethered is an option in select Nikon camera bodies.

String,

With Nikon Capture and your camera hooked up, it takes only a couple of seconds before you can view the image on your monitor; for exposure times longer than about 1 second and with the noise reduction on, it takes a little longer because the noise reduction needs to do its thing before the image is transfered to your computer.

Frans Waterlander
pixographer

Here is a link to a GREAT piece of software.
I use thier Browser Pro and Download Pro.
Also the price is right.
http://www.breezesys.com/DSLRRemotePro/index.htm