Time Lapse

[ManWearPants]

I am thinking for HD video...resolution is 1920 x 1080. So no need to take too high res photo. The encoder will still re-encode to this resolution. Yes?

I have Pinnacle Studio. Maybe I'll play around with it a little bit tonight.

 

[livideyez]

Neat!! A bunch of guys totally into time lapse
well i first fell in love with time lapse after watching this particular movie

http://www.vimeo.com/2551774


check out my time lapse movies
basically I took it outside of my window

Stills were compiled using Quick Time Pro
Don't mind the long winded movies and boring scene.
Would explore more in the near future.

the first done with iPhone 3GS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auBaGyKrZZw

this is done using my D70S IR (ELP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfZtd_1SwL8

finally another one done with my D90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g_hESfrXnY


cheers and thanks for watching

 

[AnduTan]

Livideyez
Keep shooting and editing for us to see more.
Behind every timelapse is quite a lot of long hours alone mostly...
and a lot of editing.

Like your original music.

 

[livideyez]

Livideyez
Keep shooting and editing for us to see more.
Behind every timelapse is quite a lot of long hours alone mostly...
and a lot of editing.

Like your original music.

Thanks

 

[CamInit]

Anyone has any idea where to get a motorized tripod mount for the panning shots? Hopefully not too expensive. Definitely makes for more interesting/dramatic compositions compared to static scenes.

 

[flipfreak]

Anyone has any idea where to get a motorized tripod mount for the panning shots? Hopefully not too expensive. Definitely makes for more interesting/dramatic compositions compared to static scenes.

think u gotta build your own.

 

[ManWearPants]

Anyone has any idea where to get a motorized tripod mount for the panning shots? Hopefully not too expensive. Definitely makes for more interesting/dramatic compositions compared to static scenes.

There is a robotic one.......your arms.

 

[ManWearPants]

wah liew.....my heart pain when the shutter goes click, click, click every few seconds that I aborted the sequence. It takes a lot of courage to embark on time lapse p. lol

Just to create a 5 min 30fps NTSC video, need to click 7200 clicks over a duration of 10 hours to capture sunset to sunrise, or 1 click every 4 seconds for 10 hours. whew!

there is a good calculator here
http://www.time-science.com/timescience/timelapse.asp#calculator

 

[catchlights]

Anyone has any idea where to get a motorized tripod mount for the panning shots? Hopefully not too expensive. Definitely makes for more interesting/dramatic compositions compared to static scenes.

it is very expensive, they using some thing like this, originally use for Telescope, modified it to mount camera for TL photography.
http://www.firstlightoptics.com/proddetail.php?prod=Synscan_AZ_GOTO_Mount&cat=133

 

[livideyez]

Anyone has any idea where to get a motorized tripod mount for the panning shots? Hopefully not too expensive. Definitely makes for more interesting/dramatic compositions compared to static scenes.

The hardcore guys like milapse used to use this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni89TBOTCUA


check this out
http://openmoco.org/

http://www.openmoco.org/node/112

It won't come cheap though and it's definitely heavy to lug everything out

 

[aruns]

The hardcore guys like milapse used to use this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni89TBOTCUA


check this out
http://openmoco.org/

http://www.openmoco.org/node/112

It won't come cheap though and it's definitely heavy to lug everything out

if there are a few people interested in making one..why dont we pool our resources and try? Im game

 

[catchlights]

after 100,000 shutter counts, your D90 will be disintegrated......... :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

btw, if you take 100 photos a day, you need 1000 days to reach the 100,000 shutter counts, it means you shoot everyday for nearly three years.

don't worry so much about shutter counts, not much people shoot beyond the figures, and even that if you really reach that stage, you already make full use of your camera, can either write it off buy a new camera or replace the shutter unit.

anyway, everyday think about shutter counts, how to enjoy photography?

 

[catchlights]

go and shoot timelapse photography..
produce a 30s clip you need nearly 1k shutter counts (30seconds times 30 frame per seconds)

 

[sinned79]

go and shoot timelapse photography..
produce a 30s clip you need nearly 1k shutter counts (30seconds times 30 frame per seconds)

i am trying this saturday

hmm but i am not sure if my calculation is correct...

i intend to camp for 1 hour... shoot at intervals of 5 seconds each... so that will be 5x12x60 = 720 shots?

then for 720 shots, how long can the video be?

 

[+evenstar]

i am trying this saturday

hmm but i am not sure if my calculation is correct...

i intend to camp for 1 hour... shoot at intervals of 5 seconds each... so that will be 5x12x60 = 720 shots?

then for 720 shots, how long can the video be?

common sense question. how long your video is depends on how many FPS u want.

 

[catchlights]

i am trying this saturday

hmm but i am not sure if my calculation is correct...

i intend to camp for 1 hour... shoot at intervals of 5 seconds each... so that will be 5x12x60 = 720 shots?

then for 720 shots, how long can the video be?

what is the 12?
anyway, your intervals is 5s, let say your shutter shutter speed is 1s, in one hour is 60minx60s, total 3600sec, you get 600 shots in that hour. (3600/5s+1s)

if you are using 24 FPS (the lowest), 600 frames is producing a 25sec clip.

 

[sinned79]

common sense question. how long your video is depends on how many FPS u want.

sorry my maths quite poor, so i am not sure how to calculate. dun think it has something to do with common sense.

 

[sinned79]

what is the 12?
anyway, your intervals is 5s, let say your shutter shutter speed is 1s, in one hour is 60minx60s, total 3600sec, you get 600 shots in that hour. (3600/5s+1s)

if you are using 24 FPS (the lowest), 600 frames is producing a 25sec clip.

ohh.. my 12 is taken take 1min = 60 secs, so if interval of 5 secs means each min 12 shots... so multiply by 60 mins that gives me 720 shots.

hmm maybe i calculate wrongly haha.

 

[catchlights]

ohh.. my 12 is taken take 1min = 60 secs, so if interval of 5 secs means each min 12 shots... so multiply by 60 mins that gives me 720 shots.

hmm maybe i calculate wrongly haha.

I see, depend you how/where set your shutter speed,

if you set the shutter speed in your camera, the interval time is start from the signal send to your camera to open shutter to the next signal, so you need to be careful about the total time of your shutter speed and camera writing speed not longer than the interval time.

if you are using a intervalometer to set shutter speed, the interval time starts from last shutter close to next shutter open.

 

[sinned79]

I see, depend you how/where set your shutter speed,

if you set the shutter speed in your camera, the interval time is start from the signal send to your camera to open shutter to the next signal, so you need to be careful about the total time of your shutter speed and camera writing speed not longer than the interval time.

if you are using a intervalometer to set shutter speed, the interval time starts from last shutter close to next shutter open.

yup me using the intervalometer that comes with my shutter release cable.

i will try this tomorrow... hopefully i dun get stuck :sweat: