:((

(hugleft)

That shit makes it really god damned hard to clean windows :@

 

/ex-windowcleaner

So many funny looks doing time lapse in a city centre during rush hour!

Some more test. All 1080p.

A night/day test with my Canon Ixus 220 HS running CHDK...



And some clouds testing my window mount and my Pentax K200D...

One thing I read is that for smooth motion you should aim to have a shutter speed of half the time between frames. So, if you're shooting at 24 frames per second you use 1/48th (1/50th is close enough) shutter, and if you're shooting 1 frame per minute, you use a 30 second shutter speed. It results in nice motion blur without things looking too smeared.

 

Obviously 720 exposures of 30 seconds (for 12 hours of real time) is gonna be pretty hard on the camera battery.

Yeah, I've been looking into the best way to make things as smooth as possible whilst not over/under exposing.

 

I've bought an AC adapter for my Ixus. Been looking for one for my K200D that is a reasonable price, not managed to yet.

Might be worth seeing how many long exposure frames you can get out of the K200D battery. Plus, there's nothing stopping you from splitting the shooting – it doesn't have to be a single 1-minute-long take in the final video, you could shoot at different angles or whatever.

I can get quite a lot. Bought some Uniross Hybrios a bit back that are bloody great. Fairly certain I managed over 4000 frames on a single set. (Just shooting JPEG)

 

Having an AC adapter isn't going to be too much use outside the house anyway!

 

 

Well, short exposures don't eat a lot of battery; I'd be surprised if you that many 30-second frames.

Oh, definitely not for 30 seconds frames, that would be a killer!

Wow!

The first one shows me that it is really dreary there! There was one time there when the sun really came out!

The second is amazing. It looks like the clouds just form from thin air. I'm sure they do I guess, but I never really thought about it.

Good stuff Ant!

The sun? What's that?

:) Isn't he the male type person your wife gives you?

Wife? What is that?

Dreary? That was a decent day.

Here's a day-light drive. It seems a frame every 2 seconds is reasonable in the motorway.

I did these a couple of weeks ago, using Android ICS / Cyanogenmod stock camera with 1fps timelapse. Need a longer distance to drive to make these better.

A few decent roads though!

 

I want to do something when I go on a roadtrip to Liege, Hockenheim, Amsterdam, Brugge and Lille this summer.

 

Just need to find a suitable in car charger/power supply and do some maths to make sure my 16GB card is big enough.

 

1fps looks good, but I fear it'd give me too many photos and be too long for a really long trip. Though I have been using a lower resolution (but bigger than 1920x1080 to allow for enough cropping)

I was gonna say, you don't need much resolution for video - I think a 4GB card holds like 4000 frames at just-over-full-HD res.

Android ICS / Cyanogenmod (I have no idea if it's a stock feature) records directly to MP4, so no manual stitching of JPEG images here :Y

1fps at 1080p (actually seems to be 1920x1088 which is a quirk of HTC camera apparently) created a 77MB video file, which I thought was rather good.

I'm off to Northampton on Saturday which should take me about an hour from here. That should create a ~300MB MP4 by my calculation.