Time lapse feature on D800. Will it make a mirror slap?

[jlw82]

With the D800.

Lets say I want to make a Time laps with the build in Time lapse feature. Will the camera then have the mirror up all the time, or will I hear the annoying mirror-slap every time a new image is taken? And, will it make it into a movie, or will I get raw images so I can make my own time-lapse, after the images been in Post?

I watched the video on Nikon Website, about Time lapse, but diet hear, or see anything about the mirror slap under

 

[jlw82]

No one?

 

[Zlik]

I am very interested in this too.

Here is what I found at http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-11674-12304 :

"The D800 incorporates a newly-developed shutter with a 200,000-cycle durability rating, compared to 150,000 for the D700, and it has a revised mirror mechanism too (the main difference being the motor that drives the mirror).

When the camera is switched from still to video mode while Live View is engaged, the D800 doesn't flip the mirror down and up again during the switch. This makes for a quick and seamless change from one mode to the other. The same is true when going the other direction, from video to still.

Officially, the D800's mirror also stays up throughout the capture of a sequence of still pictures in Live View. But, for a reason we haven't yet figured out, the shutter activity and noise associated with each Live View exposure is more than the D4 when set to do the same thing."

Does is the shutter count still going to go up even if the mirror doesn't move?

 

[jlw82]

Thanks for the reply. I would be wonderful to not hear the slap.

 

[stephansd]

Can't tell about the D800, but the D4 makes the mirror slap with every frame in time lapse mode.

BTW, the D4's time lapse movies "out of the cam" are sensational! Very smooth, very high quality.

Greetings,
Stephan

 

[danharperphotography.com]

Hey jwl, if it works anything like it does on the D3/D3X then the shutter and mirror will open and close, just like any other photo.

Honestly I'm super confident it will because timelapse sequences although computer controlled are just like taking multiple individual photos for the camera. It's not smart enough to know that you and to save stress on the camera so, it just takes pictures one after the other, in the sequence you ask it to.
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