Digital stills turned into a movie

[darb]

taken on a minolta digital still camera

i cant recommend this highly enough !

http://darb.net/photos/stuff/minolta/

[christiand]

Hi Darb,

what is this post about ?
Can you enlighten me a bit before I download 40 MB ?

Cheers
CD

[johndec]

That's amazing. Well worth the 40mb download

[johndec]

OOPS. Damm email/debug error.........

[Matt. K]

You can do the same thing with your D70 tethered to a laptop computer. Shoot in JPG medium or small and use the intervelometer built into Nikon Capture.

[kipper]

Yeah I gathered you could do all that with a D70. However I don't kind of like the idea of having a laptop/pc connected. It's a shame that the D70 didn't have some sort of a IR communications that a pocket pc could be programmed to communicate with it. For adjusting things like focus, shutter speed, aperture etc.

[sirhc55]

Can be done with this unit without a PC:

http://www.bmumford.com/photo/camctlr.html

[big pix]

Chris, the time machine I thought was cheap for what is does but they get you with all the add on's that you need. A fantastic piece of gear.........more lust....

cheers
bp

[PiroStitch]

Definitely well worht the download. Wonder if the D70 could hold up to it after 20k shots

The photographer must have been pretty darn patient as some of those shots would have taken at least a day to take.

[sirhc55]

My electronics may be a bit rusty but I would have thought a simple timer circuit with a 555 tripping a IR sender might do the job - I will check the web out - will get back to everyone in about 5 years

[darb]

i was more impressed with the creative content and ideas rather than nerdy stuff behind it

[Matt. K]

Darb
I agree.

[big pix]

Darb, just had a look at what I think is an award winning piece. What has been produced is just brilliant,

But who produced the piece

cheers
bp PS
Very impressed that there were no surf shots.

[darb]

http://www.mythopolis.com/HDtimelapse/

[big pix]

Good find Darb.......... some of the shots look like Perth.......

bp

[leek]

Very good and very reminiscent of the full length feature film Koyaniquatsi... Very captivating...

Shame the artist didn't stray outside LA though... I'm sure that there are much better subjects for this sort of art - especially if you are going to put SO much effort into it...

[BBJ]

I like it thanks Darb, is there a way to save this file? or does it hide out in the temp int files?
Thanks
John

[MCWB]

BBJ: right click on it and 'save file as'.

[BBJ]

dont get that option.

[pippin88]

Amazing in all respectives.

Very nicely put together into the film - it flow's well. Some slight repitition in the car stuff detracted (looping) but only minorly.

I presume the zooming in / out is done via cropping rather than moving the camera?

[Gordon]

Cant download 40Mb from work, will check it when I get home next week.

I've made quite a few animations from digital images, although the images were taken with a CCD camera rather than the D70, check out the animation of the comet linked from the top of this page (13Mb):
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/linearT7.htm

Lots of work to align the images precisely and to equalise the background levels, but worth it. I have other image sequences waiting on the HD for this treatment... one of these days when I have a spare day or 2!

Gordon

[darb]

what does "HD" mean? i thought it was high definition?

[pippin88]

what does "HD" mean? i thought it was high definition?

In the context of the file I think you are right, but I think Gordon is referring to his hard drive as HD.

[kipper]

Sirhc, bugger the 555 timer. Just use an Atmel AVR microcontroller with an IR connected to it. I've got the STK500 dev kit but just too lazy to make a remote with it

At one stage I was thinking about going the full hog and getting an LCD kit, so you could enter in things like start/end date and time, intervals etc Then I just put it in the too hard bin. However after seeing something like this it's kind of tempting to have something setup.

[Gordon]

what does "HD" mean? i thought it was high definition?

In the context of the file I think you are right, but I think Gordon is referring to his hard drive as HD.

yep, Hard Drive it is

Here at work we accumulate about 25GB of images every night, so we can fill a 200GB drive pretty quickly, just as well we have a decent compression algorithm to squeeze each night's images and sundry other files onto a DVD.

Gordon

[pippin88]

Don't you lose quality doing that? BTW: I presume from your location you are talking astro images.
Which Observatory is Siding springs? (Ie where is it?)

[Gordon]

Don't you lose quality doing that? BTW: I presume from your location you are talking astro images.
Which Observatory is Siding springs? (Ie where is it?)

The algorithm we use does cause a very slight loss, but nowhere near as much as converting the FITS files into JPG would. Images which we search for moving objects, searching for asteroids and comets that might crash into Earth one day.
Fortunately my CCD images from home are much smaller than what we work with here.

Theres only 1 spring here although it was just a damp spot in a gully when we searched it out last winter.

Siding Spring Observatory is about 20km west of Coonabarabran.

better get back to it...the data pipeline is overflowing and I dont want to get behind.

Gordon

[rokkstar]

Very nice, always loved time lapse photography. Might experiment with this myself.

Actually, it reminds me, I think James Cameron (titanic director) is planning a 100 year movie. What his brilliant idea is, is to put a camera on tall buildings all around New York (or some other american city). They will then take a picture at midday, every day for 100 years, so that when put together they make a film up of about 2 hours.
So in those 2 hours you would get to see a cities development over 100 years. Buildings would go up in minutes, and destroyed in seconds. The lansdcape could change so much.

I think its a fantastic idea, just a shame I wont be around to see the end result.

[pippin88]

I was asking, because I'm pretty sure I've been to the Siding Springs observatory. Near the Warrumbungles right?

[thehikingdude]

Well worth the time to download and watch. Excellent work!

-jeff

[sirhc55]

Very nice, always loved time lapse photography. Might experiment with this myself.

Actually, it reminds me, I think James Cameron (titanic director) is planning a 100 year movie. What his brilliant idea is, is to put a camera on tall buildings all around New York (or some other american city). They will then take a picture at midday, every day for 100 years, so that when put together they make a film up of about 2 hours.
So in those 2 hours you would get to see a cities development over 100 years. Buildings would go up in minutes, and destroyed in seconds. The lansdcape could change so much.

I think its a fantastic idea, just a shame I wont be around to see the end result.

Neither will James Cameron

[coolpix]

Worth downloading and keeping....very well done...loved it

[Gordon]

I was asking, because I'm pretty sure I've been to the Siding Springs observatory. Near the Warrumbungles right?

yes, surrounded by the Warrumbungles

Gordon

[Killakoala]

I've visited the observatory up there a few times and i always stare at the telescope through the glass window in amazement. It's so BIG I'd love to get to Hawaii and have a look at one of the Kek telescopes, or the Subaru one. Then i think i'd get telescope lust Makes my Meade 8-incher look pedestrian.

Gordon, they are beautiful photos of comet Linear. Really nice.

[Gordon]

I've visited the observatory up there a few times and i always stare at the telescope through the glass window in amazement. It's so BIG

Gordon, they are beautiful photos of comet Linear. Really nice.

Thanks Steve. We have the smallest scope on the mountain for our Near Earth Asteroid search, ( http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/ ) although I have observed with the 3.9m about 10 years ago. I can tell you that its pretty awesome sitting in the cage at the top end to operate a filter wheel between exposures and stare out into the sky with binoculars during exposures.
You really have to be careful to drive the cage rotator motor at the right speed when they slew the scope though- otherwise theres a very real possibility of ending up with a lap full of liquid nitrogen as the dewar overflows!

Gordon