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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffycan" data-source="post: 70213" data-attributes="member: 10226">So I took out my D800 last night to try and catch some of the peak of this year's Perseid meteor shower at Castaic Lake, just an hour north of Los Angeles.  Because we were only 50 miles from the city, there was still a decent amount of light pollution, but the spot did offer enough visibility to catch about 30-40 meteors in the three hours I was there.I first tested it out at my apartment and set up a 5 shot, 30 sec exposure at 1″ intervals. Seemed to work. And so, I was set for some epic star time lapses, or so I thought. This is where I found my first glitch with the D800. When using the interval mode, the D800 just wouldn’t have it with the long exposures. I played with my settings, adjusting the intervals, the number of times, and shots, all to no avail. The camera would stop triggering after about 10-15 shots, despite that I set it to shoot 240. In the end, I came out with these failed timelapses.[MEDIA=youtube]VpeoBZaKimk[/MEDIA]You can see the jumps occurred everytime the intervals stopped automatically triggering. It seemed to me that the issue was time related. When I set the exposures to 1″ or less, it seemed to have no problem continually firing. I only tested it out to 30-40 shots, but it seemed to work properly. When I was shooting at 20-30″ however, it would crap out every 10 minutes or so. I couldn’t find anyone else who has experienced this same problem, nor could I find any postings on anyone trying to timelapse with long exposures. So, let me know if you have any clue why!Here are a couple stills from the night:[ATTACH]14641[/ATTACH][ATTACH]14642[/ATTACH]Read more at my blog! <a href="http://jeffycan.com/blog/?p=439" target="_blank">Perseid Meteor Shower and Interval FAIL! |</a></blockquote>

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