Minimum shutter speed level breached

Vikas Chander

New member
Hello,

sorry if this question has been asked elsewhere on the forum , i tried to look for it but could not find any relevant post.

I want to shoot some sunset timelaspes on my nikon d810a.

So i go about setting the Auto Iso to on and put the camera in aperture priority.

The interval for the timelapse is set 7 seconds

Max iso is set 3200 and the minimum shutter speed to 4 secs.

I start the timelapse and the shutter speed slowly increases to 4 seconds and after that the iso increases to 3200.

At this point i expect no further changes to the shutter or the ISO , but then the shutter speed starts increasing again till it reaches 10 seconds.

So my question - Is there any setting which will prevent the shutter speed to drop beyond the minimum shutter speed value?

cheers

vikas chander
 

Danno

Senior Member
Welcome to the forum Vikas. I am sure you will get some insight into how to set up this shot. I think when you set it on aperture priority what you are seeing is inevitable. But there are a number of folks here that do time laps.
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
Hello,

sorry if this question has been asked elsewhere on the forum , i tried to look for it but could not find any relevant post.

I want to shoot some sunset timelaspes on my nikon d810a.

So i go about setting the Auto Iso to on and put the camera in aperture priority.

The interval for the timelapse is set 7 seconds

Max iso is set 3200 and the minimum shutter speed to 4 secs.

I start the timelapse and the shutter speed slowly increases to 4 seconds and after that the iso increases to 3200.

At this point i expect no further changes to the shutter or the ISO , but then the shutter speed starts increasing again till it reaches 10 seconds.

So my question - Is there any setting which will prevent the shutter speed to drop beyond the minimum shutter speed value?

cheers

vikas chander

Use manual and then adjust as needed, I have done this with a sunset to moonrise timelapse and yes it is time consuming but is also doable. PS your shutter was decreasing.. You never mentioned what setting you used. I would be using S for shutter speed as you can only go down to the widest A which I am guessing you would have been using.
 

Vikas Chander

New member
hi

my starting settings were iso 200 and 1/4000 with aperture at f2.8. The end exposure required by me was 4 secs and iso 3200 at f2.8 . I set the intervalometer to 7 secs hoping to get a nice holy grail sunset to citylights/stars timelapse.

Yes i can do the manual method but that always ends up with a lot of flicker requiring deflickering in LRTimelapse not to mention the inevitable camera shake.

So , i want to use a totally hands free post free workflow ...

vikas
 

Scott Murray

Senior Member
hi

my starting settings were iso 200 and 1/4000 with aperture at f2.8. The end exposure required by me was 4 secs and iso 3200 at f2.8 . I set the intervalometer to 7 secs hoping to get a nice holy grail sunset to citylights/stars timelapse.

Yes i can do the manual method but that always ends up with a lot of flicker requiring deflickering in LRTimelapse not to mention the inevitable camera shake.

So , i want to use a totally hands free post free workflow ...

vikas

This was done the way that I said eg Manually, I never got the camera shake that you mentioned. Also this was my very first attempt. I used a D800E.

 
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