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Time Lapse & D300 Help??
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Anyone out there have any experience with time lapse, preferable with a Nikon D300?
Made my first attempt at a time lapse shot last night with a melting ice-cube?
It worked but with a few problems I hope someone might be able to help me with.I was using the interval timer feature on the D300, setting it to fire every 7 seconds and 754 shots but I noticed the camera wasn’t following the 7 seconds very well..some times it would take a shot after 2 seconds sometimes after 7 seconds and sometimes after longer, a preview usually showed up on the LCD after each shot, but sometimes it wouldn’t show a preview and fire another shot 2 seconds after the pervious.
Anyone any ideas why this is happening?I have included a link to the video below (bare in mind this is my first attempt, wasn’t meant to be fantastic! :lol: ).
I know the light is pretty bad as I don’t have any off camera lighting equipment at the moment so I was stuck using the built-in flash and a keyring LED torch (which started to die half was through), but the video seems to pixelate in places at times, is this caused by the bad lighting or am I overlooking another issue?The camera settings I was using are as follows – 1/5s – f/8 – ISO 200 – Flash ON
Software used for stitching – Quicktime Prohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVlmZn2VzQ
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Hi John.
I know nothing about the D300 & haven’t attempted any timelapse, but I rekon that the lighting may be the problem. If, as you say, you are using the built in flash, 7 seconds may not be enough time for it to recharge between shots. This would cause either the camera not firing at the desired interval or missed or blank shots. Another reason may be the display being on could prevent the camera from firing the next shot on time. The banding which appears in some of the shots could be due to the torch failing. I could be totally off track of course, but they are points worth considering. :wink:Thanks Miki,
Never really taught about the flash been the problem with the timer as it was firing under the 7 seconds too with the flash firing each time.
Hate having to use on camera flash but when its all you got you have to make do with it, I think I need to invest in a small lighting tent and cheap tabletop lighting kit, till then I may keep my time lapse experiments outside where I don’t need lights :-)
Anyone looking to sell a small lighting kit or lighting tent do contact me :-)Thanks for your reply Miki, will have to test it out again without the flash and see of it keeps the time better.
John,
Find a used sb400. You’ll love it. Super small and zero on flash controls. I have one for my d300 and the camera treats the 400 as if it was the in camera flash. Much more light but not a full size beast, defuser and tilt built in, saves camera batteries, and recharges almost instantly (with OK batteries)
Hi Ted, thanks for the suggestion.
I will look into them and see what there going for these days.Hi John.
1/5th sec f/8? why not fire the flash at it’s synch speed? This may be 1/125 or maybe 1/250th sec. What shooting mode are you using?Was shooting in full manual, didn’t want to put in Aperture Priority because it can cause flicker in time lapses.
And i’m not too well up on camera flash yet either, I just put the flash power down to -2.5 to try eliminate as much shadow as possible from the picture.
With the light I had the camera was metering just right at 1/5sec and f/8 was the biggest I could get with the zoom level I was using, prob should have stepped up the ISO but the D300 doesn’t seem to do very will at high ISO even 600-800 introduces alot of grain.
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