Digital Capture direct

I've been doing some web searching for an answer to this but have yet to discover anything encouraging. So here's my question/problem:
I have a nice photo table with a stable crane like rig on the back (Imagine a camera mounted directly overhead looking down at the subject) - perfect for my needs of product photography. The only problem is no matter what camera I use, I cannot see what I'm doing when the camera is mounted on the vertical crane rig - especially when it's high up. So, is there a software/hardware solution that will allow me to operate the camera remotely from my mac? More simply put, allow me to connect to a remote monitor and/or capture images directly to the computer? I've been out of the photography arena for a while now and don't know what's available these days. It makes sense to me to bypass capturing to the camera's internal memory and go straight to my hard drive, which is where it will end up anyways. Are there cameras that will allow me to do this? Will aperture allow me to do this?
Thanks all!

You mean like this?
http://www.apple.com/uk/pro/techniques/aperture/tethered.html
G5/2GHz x2, G5/2.5GHz x4, various others Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/ScratchDiskTab.jpg!
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