Time lapse with a D200/D50

[Justin]

Posted on DPreview, but thought I would xpost it here, great demo of what time lapse can do, i'm inspired

http://www.esnips.com/web/SpectraDVDPromo

[Yi-P]

Can D50 do time-lapse by itself??

I think you need some sort of time lapse remote control set for such long time lapses.

[obzelite]

Posted on DPreview, but thought I would xpost it here, great demo of what time lapse can do, i'm inspired

i've been playing all this week with the time lapse, only hint i can give you is to turn the res right down if you intend to piece the images together to get a video.

70 shots all open at 3872x2592 in photoshop trying to piece together an animation can bring a dual core 4400 with 2gb of ram to its knees.

it didn't click, even while i was swearing at the machine and threatening it with a core 2 upgrade, that the slowness was due the silly size the animation was going to end up being

[Yi-P]

That is why you need a rack server link module of 150 CPU and over 320GB of RAM working together...

[mikephotog]

For those wanting to do time lapse with a D50/D70/D70s and probably other Nikons go here.
http://www.gentles.ltd.uk/gentled/
This unit works via the infrared remote port and can be set to fire the camera at various intervals.
It will also fire various Pentax Optio compact cameras, which is what I got it for, intending to do some KAP.

Your image size only needs to be around 720x576 pixels which is the standard PAL TV format.
I shoot jpgs and then auto resize them in ACDSEE or Photoshop using an "Action". Then drop then into the time line in your favourite video editing to produce your video.

[Yi-P]

Is there any software there that fires off the shutter via the USB cable camera control?

[Alpha_7]

Yip,

From memory Nikon Capture can do this.

[Glen]

Mike, thanks for showing us that remote

[Yi-P]

Yip,

From memory Nikon Capture can do this.

I've only managed to get single shots form NC, where do you enable/setup the timelapse capture??

[Alpha_7]

I only have it on one of my laptops and not the one I have with me today, but I am close to sure I remember seeing it. You could set the interval between the shots.

[ATJ]

Time Lapse with D70 using Nikon Capture:

http://www.dslrusers.net./viewtopic.php?t=6980

[Yi-P]

Thanks!!!


I never noticed that were there!!