Quite pleased with this

Interesting!

You can't just go uploading media without some 'added value' techy details to fill in the gaps! :wonder:

What camera/settings did you use?

What was the time lapse between shots and the overall time it took?

How did you join them all together?

I like that

Would have been better without the trees though, maybe?

It seems to be a well hidden secret but a really good piece of timelapse software I've found for assembling the pictures in sequence is Virtualdub, I'd searched and tried various pieces of paid and free software but not had much success. Some software like Premier could do it but it was slow and frequently ran out of resources needing extensively work before getting the photos into Premier as it couldn't handle the 2,000+ 3MP input photos. Virtualdub however could do it all extremely efficiently and quickly, all you do is put all your photos in one folder and ensure they're in numerical sequence -their default labelling is usually fine. Then in Virtualdub if you open the first picture it will automatically sequence all the pictures, you can then apply filters to carry out all the operations as needed such as resize the pictures down to 1920 wide then crop them to 1920x1080. The speed of the timelapse is easily controlled by just setting the framerate, filters can be applied to smooth out as you want and finally you can use divx or other codecs to produce the final video. This is one on my test sequences here:

This was taken with an Olympus E-1 (older camera so less bothered about the shutter failing) and the 7-14mm lens using a 30 quid timer remote from eBay set to take a shot every 10 seconds and sequenced at 30 frames per second. I'd been thinking of taking the camera somewhere more creative but it would mean sitting for more than 12 hours with the camera.

John

Interesting!

You can't just go uploading media without some 'added value' techy details to fill in the gaps! :wonder:

What camera/settings did you use?

What was the time lapse between shots and the overall time it took?

How did you join them all together?

Samsung HXU-10 digital camcorder that has time lapse built in. One frame per second, over 40 minutes. Edited using Intelli Studio.

I can see that I'm going to have to investigate this a little further - now where does it mention how to do time lapses in the camera manual! :yes:

Nice to see what other people are up to though

I can see that I'm going to have to investigate this a little further - now where does it mention how to do time lapses in the camera manual! :yes:

Nice to see what other people are up to though

Have you had a chance to check if this can be done with the D5000 John?

I checked and found the D90 doesn't have a timelapse option so i did a little more digging and found out there is a work round for the D90.

I located a copy of "Nikon Camera Control Pro 2" from Nikon. This software allows you to remotely control the camera via USB or wi-fi from your computer, laptop or as in our case netbook. You can do everything you can normally with the camera the only time you need to touch the camera itself is if you have focus set to manual. You can also view what you see in the viewfinder via LV on the computer screen too.

But additionally there is a timelapse section in the software where you set all the options etc in the software and just leave the netbook and camera connected whilst it takes the timelapse pictures.

Not given it a try properly yet apart from some normal pictures taken using the netbook but thought i'd put the info up for anyone else interested in this kind of style etc....

Cheers

Dave.

The D5000 should have an intervalometer I believe.

An alternative option to using a PC to control the camera is to check if there's a timer remote that functions like a remote shutter release but can be programmed to trigger the camera automatically over set periods of time.

John

Yes I did give it a go Dave and then used Quicktime to convert it into an avi.

I chose frame rates that made it look like a Key Stone cops film!

The advantage of Nikon Camera Control is (I believe) that you can use more than the 1000 frames that I'm limited to.

As JohnMcL7 says, there is another option to consider as well.