We’re used to time-lapse photography being merely a feature of our smartphone camera app, but of course it has its origins in film. A movie camera would be triggered frame by frame at fixed intervals, with the result being the timelapse. A dead art, you might wonder, were it not for [Kevin Santo Cappuccio], who is capturing his work in timelapse on 16mm film, with a vintage Bolex camera.
For those of us with a penchant for film the camera alone makes it worth a second look, but the actuation mechanism is at the heart of the project. It uses a slightly unusual but nevertheless strangely ubiquitous actuator, in the form of a car door central locking actuator. This in turn is triggered by an Arduino Nano, and he has the ultimate dream of using a 16mm film timelapse as part of a fully-16mm submission video for the Hackaday prize.
We think it’s a pity that more film-based projects don’t end up on these pages, so we’re very pleased indeed to see this one. If you’re curious about the other side of the 16mm system, well we’ve introduced you to the inner workings of a projector before, too.
It’s really interesting. Thank you for sharing it. I’ve seen another unusual Bolex experiment : http://tomwilkinson.com/sculpture/gallery_work/bike_bolex.html
Holy crap that is amazing. The homemade governor for the shutter is such a cool touch.
I made my first time-lapse films with a webcam, making a photo every second, and ffmpeg’ing them together.
What? No 555 trolls today?
This is the one situation where *I actually could have used a 555* and just didn’t think of it. Where are the 555 trolls before you start a project.
No link to the prize?
Gotchu fam
https://hackaday.io/project/191238-jumperless