Jock Elliott
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- Troy, NY
200 exposures at 4 second intervals
Cheers, Jock
next stop 2000 exposures at an interval of 4 seconds. I assume a power cord of some sort will need to be procured.
I assume this is an in-camera TL feature? Or are you finishing these in software?
Obviously you set the camera up with how often to shoot. But what determines how many frames are played back per second?
Nice. It just never occurs to me to do timelapse, and yet, I love the results.
Luke,
I started with the battery indicating "three bars" -- which is "full" -- but not knowing really how full it actually was.
I did two TL videos of 200 shots each with no apparent effect on the battery. I did several more this AM, getting up to 1,200 shots before the red battery low indicator popped on. I was in the middle of making another TL video and turned the camera off. The display said "time lapse paused." There is no good way to change the battery with the camera on a tripod. I took the camera off the tripod, detached the baseplate, reattached the camera, and switch it back on. It show a screen like the start of a TL sequence, so I triggered the shutter. It completed the sequence, and created two short videos instead of a single video of 200 shots.
Here are three additional videos shot this am.
These were all shot at one shot every four seconds. I think when the wind is really scudding along, I might want to drop the interval to one shot every three seconds. The greater the interval between shots, the more time compression there is.
Cheers, Jock
I used to do these a lot when I had a Nikon L20 P&S. I have an external switch that I used to use when flying the camera on a model airplane. My favorite was taking one photo every 5 seconds for the final hour before sunset, then mashing them into a 25 second video. I luckily picked an evening when the clouds and sunset were very picturesque. You remind me that some of my best work was done before I caught "upgrade fever" a few years ago.
I agree wholeheartedly with the workshop organizer. I have learned through much buying and selling that the user is more important than the gear. I have been seriously considering selling my gear and buying a single small camera that I can carry in my pocket. No bags. No interchangable lenses. Just simplicity.Sometimes an upgrade is decidedly NOT what is needed. I am reminded of a story I read decades ago in Editor and Publisher Magazine (a newspaper trade publication). It told the story of a workshop for news photographers. They showed up with anvil cases filled with Nikons and Hasselblads. The guy running the workshop then handed out Kodak instamatics and told the participants to go shoot with them, explaining: "it's not about the equipment."
Cheers, Jock
Agreed, Sue. My work area in my house needs serious decluttering, but I never can seem to carve out the time to do it. Always something else that needs to be done.Likewise Tony. Except I just never get round to advertising which involved photographing and cleaning the gear. So it remains in the cupboard, unused. A pathetic state of affairs, methinks.