this should be great.... (timelapse setup)

Post by **sunrise** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:23 pm

...apart from the fact that it was freezing, but I did have a case of beer to sit on.

michael

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:17 pm

You've taped your camera to the case.

Is that so you can make a quick getaway? 8O

You should put a rubber mat under the camera to prevent it from sliding against the metal case.

Post by **unxetas** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:18 pm

looks interesting, what is it that's being built?

I always enjoy timelapse stuff of .. well.. things developing. Either construction, or blooming, whatever, as long as something evolves makes the shot "grow".. so that should look nice ;)

Post by **sunrise** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:03 pm

I taped it to the case because of lack of a tripod. The case is much more easy to travel with on a bike. The wind was quite rough, so a rubber sheet was not enough to keep it from moving about.

The building is the new national television house, being built almost around the corner from where I live. I didn't get much action from the cranes that day, but the clouds where great.

michael

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:45 pm

Rubber matt on the case.

Post by **unxetas** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:32 pm

lol.. that was quite.. hum.. funny

Post by **Taqi** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:01 am

sunrise wrote:
I did have a case of beer to sit on.

That must get more uncomfortable as time goes on...

Post by **unxetas** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:34 am

hum.. no, I'm not gonna comment on that

sunrise, did you ever think about setting up a cheap camera at the maximum timelapse setting it could handle and just leave it there? I think I remember someone on this forum that used to shoot the construction of some building and he had a permanent camera setup and only touched it to change film and batteries

Post by **oneatatime** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:12 am

unxetas wrote:hum.. no, I'm not gonna comment on that

sunrise, did you ever think about setting up a cheap camera at the maximum timelapse setting it could handle and just leave it there? I think I remember someone on this forum that used to shoot the construction of some building and he had a permanent camera setup and only touched it to change film and batteries

That is what I still have running as I noted in an intervalometer topic some time back. I have a camera setup to overlook a very large construction project with the first frames being a bare patch of dirt.
Crane action, on the best days 6 or more can be seen thrashing around in the sky :0))
One camera shooting one frame every 10 minutes since November, 2003. I have since scanned and edited an interim version up to and including May, 2004, with the current DVD running for ~4minutes and it is beautiful Kodachrome.
I plan to retire that trusty Canon come November when I will close down the project.

Keep on filming..

Post by **unxetas** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:38 am

yeah, I wouldn't mind taking a look at that

Which canon is it? Is the camera in a private and secure location?

Post by **oneatatime** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:08 am

unxetas wrote:yeah, I wouldn't mind taking a look at that

Which canon is it? Is the camera in a private and secure location?

Canon 514 XL-S AF with it and the intervalomter running off a 12V car battery with solar panel for trickle charge.
The insulated cabinet is locked and mounted and is entirely stand alone, I visit every few days especially after rain to clean the lens protecting UV filter (we get some big storms blow thru with horizontal rain sometimes !!) and every 20-25 days to change out the film, thats it, very little effort required.
I should have the completed project on DVD (PAL) by Jan, 2005 so send me your address sometime and I can post out a copy, no problem.

Enjoy..

Post by **Cranium** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:35 am

I had mounted an XL-400 high up in a tree to capture the demoliton of my parents' house. Was a couple of months total, I guess. Then they had to take down the tree, and the contractor was taking so damn long to get started rebuilding it that I just gave up.Pretty cool watching it go down, though. Woulda been nice to watch it go back up if I'd had the spare time to keep going out and turning the camera on and off every day. Ah well...

Post by **peterson** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:37 am

it would be great to shoot the costruction until the building is completed! but sunrise should have much more beer boxes..not just one to sit on

I wanted to shoot a tree right infront of my balcony in all year long timelapse!!! It would be so funny, but I need really solid rig so I can put the camera on just for one frame a day.it would be so nice seeing the tree changing colors and loosing leaves in about 15 secs

Post by **sunrise** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:49 pm

oneatatime,

what did you do for night shots? Did you just keep the camera running?

The buildning I live in turns 100 years next year, and we're going to have the front completely restored. It would be a nice project to follow.

michael

Post by **oneatatime** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:01 am

sunrise wrote:oneatatime,

what did you do for night shots? Did you just keep the camera running?

The buildning I live in turns 100 years next year, and we're going to have the front completely restored. It would be a nice project to follow.

michael

Michael:

Yes, the intervalometer simply fires off a single frame every 10 minutes (crystal controlled timer) so 144 frames per day with maybe only 60 frames per day making it into the final DVD (I cut out the underexposed frames with Premiere) but those pre-dawn and sunsets look good from my projector.
The project is fully funded so my film, processing and telecining is free so it is simpler to just let the camera run.

Cheers
oneatatime

Filmshooting

this should be great.... (timelapse setup)

this should be great.... (timelapse setup)

Re: this should be great.... (timelapse setup)

long timelapse project

Night shots etc.