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Time Lapse Photography.
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Someone recently showed me a time-lapse piece they did using a Nikon DSLR, and it got me thinking. The Nikon (I can’t remember the model) has a time-lapse function built into the camera, I have no idea how many cameras have that in them at the moment, but the camera I have does not have it. I think I saw something a while ago about a cable/remote release unit, with a digital display beside the shutter release button, that has the capability to be set for time-lapse, for cameras that do not have the time-lapse function built in.
Does anyone here have one of these, and if so, have you used it for time-lapse projects? Is it worth having?
Hi Nigel. Is this the release you were thinking of? It has a timelapse function & can be used on either Canon or Nikon.Thats the kind of thing Miki, thanks for that. Hahnel are usually pretty good, from what I know of their stuff. The unit I had seen before was a different make. I will probably get one, just have to price it, if its not so expensive, will get one very soon. Have you or anyone else here got one?
I’ve got the one pictured, but haven’t gotten around to try it out yet, but the reviews are good for it (excluding the instruction sheet). :lol:
I had one of the cheaper ones Yongnuo it wasnt wireless though, but only cost about
€20 from ebay. It worked find once you figured out how to set it, they all seem to have
reams of pages on how to set it :lol: I think the Hahnel GigaT is a far better unit and
from memory they can be got on ebay for around €68 ish!Time lapse is something I would like to try also, though I am probably to impatient for
it. Let us know how you get on if you do try it.I recently started doing some timelapse, I bought a cable release for my D80 on eBay but quickly realised that I was clocking up large numbers of actuations on my shutter. As I’m still practising, a lot of what I shoot ends up getting deleted. So I bought a Canon S3IS second hand off eBay instead to use as my timelapse camera. I loaded it with CHDK to allow me to use an intervalometer script and started messing around with it. Set everything on the camera to manual, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed & Focus – this will help prevent flicker if the light is constant but if you’re trying to capture a sequence where the light is changing a lot you’ll need to start changing your settings. Flicker can be reduced in post but I haven’t progressed to that stage yet. :)
This is one of the first ones I did which turned out ok…..up until the point a gust of wind blew the tripod over – lesson learned, use a heavier tripod :D
[vimeo:amvztsvq]http://www.vimeo.com/23503532[/vimeo:amvztsvq]
shutterbug wrote:
Time lapse is something I would like to try also, though I am probably to impatient for
it. Let us know how you get on if you do try it.From what I can make out, the thing with time-lapse, you can set the camera off and do other things, you don’t necessarily have to stand over the camera the whole time, unless its a very windy location. The guy who showed me the time-lapse sequence on his Nikon, had set the camera on the balcony of his apartment, and let it go for 2 or 3 hours, though I know it would not always be possible to set a camera and just walk away from it.
I will post something when I get it done, no matter how long it takes to get done :wink:
jqmx0 wrote:
I recently started doing some timelapse, I bought a cable release for my D80 on eBay but quickly realised that I was clocking up large numbers of actuations on my shutter. As I’m still practising, a lot of what I shoot ends up getting deleted. So I bought a Canon S3IS second hand off eBay instead to use as my timelapse camera. I loaded it with CHDK to allow me to use an intervalometer script and started messing around with it. Set everything on the camera to manual, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed & Focus – this will help prevent flicker if the light is constant but if you’re trying to capture a sequence where the light is changing a lot you’ll need to start changing your settings. Flicker can be reduced in post but I haven’t progressed to that stage yet. :)
This is one of the first ones I did which turned out ok…..up until the point a gust of wind blew the tripod over – lesson learned, use a heavier tripod :D
I will play around with the settings on the camera when I get the unit. I am still rather new to digital, been using film until about 4 months ago, though the basic controls on camera are the same, everything else it a bit lost on me still, so CHDK and just about 99% of post-processing is still way over my head :lol:
I like the time-lapse pieceI’ve done a bit of DIY time-lapse with an iPhone and a photo diode. Blog article here….
http://davidhunt.ie/wp/?p=544″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;Rgds,
Dave.climberhunt wrote:
I’ve done a bit of DIY time-lapse with an iPhone and a photo diode. Blog article here….
http://davidhunt.ie/wp/?p=544″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;Rgds,
Dave.Interesting piece Dave, thanks for sharing it. My electronic engineering skills are a little lacking, I think if I tried to splice a diode to the relevent cable, I’d probably end up shorting out the camera, and unfortunately, the other part of the equation, the iphone, is a little beyond my budget at the moment, I’m still using a very basic 8-year-old nokia with no camera. :wink:
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