Comments on: Intervalometers and timelapse photography

By: MichaÃ«l Burm

MichaÃ«l Burm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:07:45 +0000

If you have a canon compact camera, use the chdk software (http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief)that you can use as an extra but integrated firmware on your camera. Then you get hundreds of new functions and the possibility to write your own scripts for the camera. Intervalometer and motion-detection scripts can be downloaded.

By: Kaj

Kaj — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:45:53 +0000

I built an automatic panoramic panning rig for my Point & shoot. It's made from Lego Mindstorms NXT robotics components. It automatically pans the camera and fires the shutter at programmable intervals. I suppose if I left the panning servo off and increased the delay between triggers...guess its time to reprogram!
Here's a picture of the camera: http://members.shaw.ca/renaultguy/panocam.JPG
Here's a picture of the output after stitching in Autopan Pro:
http://members.shaw.ca/renaultguy/Harrison%20Panoramic%20copy.jpg

By: Almost_There

Almost_There — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:30:42 +0000

It's still a work in progress, but see http://www.GeoCities.com/KAP_II/

(If it says it's temporarily unavailable, that's because it's on GeoCities; Sorry.)

Ken_S.

By: Mark Hoffmeyer

Mark Hoffmeyer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:37:17 +0000

#!/bin/bash

for ((i=0;i<240;i+=1)); do
gphoto2 --capture-image -F 1 -I 1 --filename ./$i.jpg
#Time between pictures
sleep 1m
done

By: deoryp

deoryp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:36:28 +0000

welcome Caleb Kraft!

nice post

By: Mark Hoffmeyer

Mark Hoffmeyer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:33:50 +0000

I use gphoto2 and a Bash script to do my time lapse photography. Here is a list of compatible cameras: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/

My Nikon D40x has a usb connection that gphoto could communicate with and I used the following Bash script to have it take pictures:

#!/bin/bash

for ((i=0;i