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2. Southern California Cloud Time Lapse

by Andrew Charlton

3 months ago

1. Clock Time Lapse

by Andrew Charlton

3 months ago

My second time lapse made with a Nikon D70 and home made intervalometer. March 30, 2008 was a nice partly cloudy day with a good breeze and the clouds were moving pretty good. I took one shot every 15 seconds at about f/9, shutter of 1/640 second with a polarizing filter.

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boborama 3 months ago

There is a lot of posterization in the individual frames. I think either larger / better quality stills or a different codec would be helpful in getting the quality you want.

What are you using to construct your intervalometer?
Andrew Charlton 3 months ago

It's probably the codec. I used MakeAVI to combine into a raw AVI and then converted with x264 at about 5000kbps then uploaded here. I've looked for work flow ideas but haven't found much. Any tips on putting the movie together would be helpful.

For the intervalometer I picked up an Arduino microcontroller board and an infrared LED. Found code that fires off the LED and waits for however long I want. There's a pic of it in this post on my blog:

geekyweekly.com/2008/my-first-time-lapse-movie
nathan118 3 months ago

Cool beans! Yah, I suppose a shorter length between shots would just make it even smoother, but good stuff.