(Posted in Off-topic because I did it with a Panasonic camera.)
Last year we bought a Panasonic HX-A100 camera to use for taking a time lapse of a pinball show my brother runs, available here. Not bad for having no idea how to make the video from the stills until after the show. Next year I'll fix the white balance and try not to put balloons in front of the camera (during the third day).
Pictures taken every 5 seconds.
We only have a 16 gig card for it, so that means for the pinball show I had to pull the card at the end of each day and dump the pictures to my laptop, then throw it back in the next morning. Unfortunately this meant I didn't get pictures of the lights turning on and off, us coming in the doors, etc. Also, there were limits, such as when we got there, setting up the camera wasn't the first priority, but I'll try to do it first thing when we get into the building this year. Maybe for this year's show I'll get a second, larger card so I can just swap them back and forth.
The snow day we're having in DC today gave me the chance to put together another time lapse I took, from a prior storm in January. Unfortunately the camera didn't handle the darkness well, so I didn't bother with flourishes for the video, but seeing the snow appearing, then the sunrise and clouds the following morning have wetted my appetite for doing more of this. Pictures every 10 seconds. I'll have to come up with a way to illuminate the snow next time. With pictures every 10 seconds, I got about 29 hours worth of pictures before the card filled.
I know my D7000 will do time-lapse pictures, too, but for the pinball show at least, I'd rather leave a $100 camera that no one is going to notice sitting out - I was able to put it up on a shelf and only a few of us ever knew it was even there. Also, I can plug in the HX-A100 so the batteries last; I don't have a power adaptor for the D7000.
My wife just suggested we do one of the sunrise on the beach when we go later this summer. Sounds great! I'm wondering if there's some way I can put it on top of our travel trailer for a day (it's weatherproof).
Anyone else playing with time lapse photography? Has anyone played with different intervals? We used 5 seconds for the show because that's what the previous guy had done; I used 10 seconds for the snow because I wanted the card to last longer than it was for the show.
Last year we bought a Panasonic HX-A100 camera to use for taking a time lapse of a pinball show my brother runs, available here. Not bad for having no idea how to make the video from the stills until after the show. Next year I'll fix the white balance and try not to put balloons in front of the camera (during the third day).
Pictures taken every 5 seconds.We only have a 16 gig card for it, so that means for the pinball show I had to pull the card at the end of each day and dump the pictures to my laptop, then throw it back in the next morning. Unfortunately this meant I didn't get pictures of the lights turning on and off, us coming in the doors, etc. Also, there were limits, such as when we got there, setting up the camera wasn't the first priority, but I'll try to do it first thing when we get into the building this year. Maybe for this year's show I'll get a second, larger card so I can just swap them back and forth.
The snow day we're having in DC today gave me the chance to put together another time lapse I took, from a prior storm in January. Unfortunately the camera didn't handle the darkness well, so I didn't bother with flourishes for the video, but seeing the snow appearing, then the sunrise and clouds the following morning have wetted my appetite for doing more of this. Pictures every 10 seconds. I'll have to come up with a way to illuminate the snow next time. With pictures every 10 seconds, I got about 29 hours worth of pictures before the card filled.
I know my D7000 will do time-lapse pictures, too, but for the pinball show at least, I'd rather leave a $100 camera that no one is going to notice sitting out - I was able to put it up on a shelf and only a few of us ever knew it was even there. Also, I can plug in the HX-A100 so the batteries last; I don't have a power adaptor for the D7000.
My wife just suggested we do one of the sunrise on the beach when we go later this summer. Sounds great! I'm wondering if there's some way I can put it on top of our travel trailer for a day (it's weatherproof).
Anyone else playing with time lapse photography? Has anyone played with different intervals? We used 5 seconds for the show because that's what the previous guy had done; I used 10 seconds for the snow because I wanted the card to last longer than it was for the show.
