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--I am interested in doing some time lapse photography, creating mpeg/QT? movies of flowers blooming, bannanas rotting etc. Can anyone suggest a cameras that can do this, the high end Cannons SLR have time laspe capability(do they have time lapse movie cabability, or do I use some software to piece together images to a movie), but the lower end ones dont seem to have this. Maybe I would be better off buying a digitial camcorder to do this, but would rather do it with a digitial camera.
 
The Olympus E-10 & E-20 have this capability

Alternatively...There are some software packages that can communicate through the USB/Serial port of your camera that will let you take images on a time lapse...

Cam2Com is one example but I think there are a few others...Look at their website to see the supported cameras
Tom Christian said:
--I am interested in doing some time lapse photography, creating
mpeg/QT? movies of flowers blooming, bannanas rotting etc. Can
anyone suggest a cameras that can do this, the high end Cannons SLR
have time laspe capability(do they have time lapse movie
cabability, or do I use some software to piece together images to a
movie), but the lower end ones dont seem to have this. Maybe I
would be better off buying a digitial camcorder to do this, but
would rather do it with a digitial camera.
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Proud owner: Oly 2040Z, 2100UZ, B-300, WCON-08, OM-4, Tokina 35-105mm/3.5-4.5, Tokina 28-200mm/3.5-5.8, Vivitar 285HV
 
My first digital was a Ricoh RDC-5300. It has the time lapse feature and I have had some fun using it. I recently figured out how to make an animated gif with one of my programs so I will probably get the Ricoh out and dust it off again. I want to try it on a water lily opening in the morning.

Since the 5300 was my first digital, I sort of assumed time lapse was a normal feature and so I was suprised to find out that the uzi/ezi's didn't have it.
 
Hey, Jeff!

I saw that time lapse photo of yours when you first posted it. I LOVE it. I also want one of those fish barrels! Did you make that yourself? I have the barrel already, but about the fish, I live in central NJ, and so I am not sure they would LIVE. In any event, that is ONE COOL time lapse, dude! I love the fish swimming OVER the lily.

Regards, ;)

Willa
http://www.pbase.com/willa
Jeff. S said:
The E-10 does this well. See

http://www.pbase.com/image/2923838/original
Jeff S
WB9ZPO
C21OO,E-1O,TCON 314B, FL-40
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Tom Christian said:
--I am interested in doing some time lapse photography, creating
mpeg/QT? movies of flowers blooming, bannanas rotting etc. Can
anyone suggest a cameras that can do this, the high end Cannons SLR
have time laspe capability(do they have time lapse movie
cabability, or do I use some software to piece together images to a
movie), but the lower end ones dont seem to have this. Maybe I
would be better off buying a digitial camcorder to do this, but
would rather do it with a digitial camera.
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You didn't mention what camera you wanted to do it with but here's a freeware program that will do it through the serial port.
http://www.ba.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/index-e.html

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George, K2EWL http://wwwbg.tripod.com
Pics at http://www.pbase.com/george_druther
D360L, C3000Z, C2100UZ, C700UZ, E-10, Nikon CP700,
2 crummy vivitar digitals and a whole bunch of antique film exposing machines
 
Hi Willa

If you have the whiskey barrel then you can get the plastic liner at home depot or one of those type stores. The fish will survive as long as the pond does not freeze. I use a surface heater on mine it does not heat the pond but keeps ice from forming.

Thanks for the comments on the time laspe.
Jeff S
WB9ZPO
C21OO,E-1O,TCON 314B, FL-40
 
I haven't had the opportunity to take a new set of lily photos yet, but I wanted to see how it might work out. I cut up a nine shot composite from last year and remade it as an animated gif:
http://www.pbase.com/image/4062495

(Hit Previous to see the composite.)
 
Tom Christian said:
--I am interested in doing some time lapse photography, creating
mpeg/QT? movies of flowers blooming, bannanas rotting etc. Can
anyone suggest a cameras that can do this, the high end Cannons SLR
have time laspe capability(do they have time lapse movie
cabability, or do I use some software to piece together images to a
movie), but the lower end ones dont seem to have this. Maybe I
would be better off buying a digitial camcorder to do this, but
would rather do it with a digitial camera.
Click to expand...
Actually, the real, real, low end cameras do this. I'm talking about those little ball cameras you can buy for Macs and PCs. You can set those to shoot once a minute, once every 10 minutes, once an hour, etc. Of course they have to be connected to a computer.

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Using Olympus E100rs
 
Here is a link to a 3 month drug store construction project condensed to 14 images. I found a slideshow script that fades 'tween images. For the completely manual timelapse (like this) it hides all the imperfections. To build this lapse I had to manually skew, stretch, etc. each pic to the others. Flash can also use the fade transition. enjoy.

http://www.fotops.com/EBE/CVS/CVSPage2.htm

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LarryB (C-2100) http://www.fotops.com
 
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