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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 184792" data-attributes="member: 12496">The interval timer works great, but your problems are probably just your settings.&nbsp; &nbsp; Try 2 seconds between.&nbsp;&nbsp; Except, you do not specify &quot;seconds between&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Instead you specify Interval.&nbsp;&nbsp; Try programming 30 second shutters in 32 second intervals (be more generous).&nbsp; &nbsp; The shutter time must fit within the interval.&nbsp; It cannot do a 30 second shutter in 30 second intervals, and probably&nbsp; eventually fails in 31 seconds (it also has to do White Balance and&nbsp; gamma on 36 megapixels, and compress JPG and write the buffer, and these partial seconds&nbsp; accumulate, etc). It will skip photos if the previous shutter has not finished, and waiting for the next interval, you may think it stopped.D800 manual (page 202) &quot;Choose an interval longer than the slowest anticipated shutter speed.&quot;(page 203) &quot;Note that because shutter speed and the time needed to record the image to the memory card may vary from shot to shot, the interval between a shot being recorded and the start of the next shot may vary.&quot;32 seconds can't matter to you, and 32 probably works fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 184792, member: 12496"] The interval timer works great, but your problems are probably just your settings. Try 2 seconds between. Except, you do not specify "seconds between". Instead you specify Interval. Try programming 30 second shutters in 32 second intervals (be more generous). The shutter time must fit within the interval. It cannot do a 30 second shutter in 30 second intervals, and probably eventually fails in 31 seconds (it also has to do White Balance and gamma on 36 megapixels, and compress JPG and write the buffer, and these partial seconds accumulate, etc). It will skip photos if the previous shutter has not finished, and waiting for the next interval, you may think it stopped. D800 manual (page 202) "Choose an interval longer than the slowest anticipated shutter speed." (page 203) "Note that because shutter speed and the time needed to record the image to the memory card may vary from shot to shot, the interval between a shot being recorded and the start of the next shot may vary." 32 seconds can't matter to you, and 32 probably works fine. [/QUOTE]

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