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Tucson to Phoenix in Less Than Three Minutes
Another time lapse, this time of a trip I took yesterday. Created using a Canon A480 and CHDK.
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Driffield Train Time Lapse
about 1 year ago - No comments
A five second video I made today from the footbridge of a Hull to Bridlington train stopping at the station in Driffield. As the train arrives in the station you can see the level crossing barriers behind it go up and traffic resume.
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Smooth Zooming and Panning Time Lapse
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
I have worked out a method to allow zooming and panning for time lapse movies. More work is still needed, but here is a short sample of storms last Saturday.
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Forest Fire Time Lapse
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Here is another time lapse, this time of a five acre forest fire on the mountain range outside of Tucson. The fire is about 10 miles away. The time lapse was created using 10MP images with the camera at full 3x optical zoom. The images were then cropped to 1920 x 1080 to create a
Motorized Panning During Time Lapses
about 1 year ago - No comments
A time lapse video can be made to look really good if the camera is panned while the picture taking happens. The result is smooth motion during the video, and there are plenty of examples of this on You Tube.
There are lots of ways to make cheap panning mechanisms, with the most popular involving an
Storms Time Lapse
about 1 year ago - No comments
Here is another time lapse of storms building over the Santa Catalina mountains. The black specks that keep appearing are birds going to and from our bird feeders.
It was generated with 3750 pictures taken two seconds apart using CHDK.
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Yorkshire Pudding Time Lapse
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Here is another one — it’s a strange angle because I needed to keep the oven light out of direct view of the camera. Total time elapsed was 20 minutes. Compressed to 33 seconds. Generated using a Canon A480 and CHDK.
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Tucson to Mount Bigelow Time Lapse
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Last weekend we took a drive from Tucson to the top of Mount Bigelow, which is home to TV and radio antennas. Some stats:
Driving time — 55 minutes
Distance — 31 miles
Altitude gain — 5,500 feet
Temperature drop — 29 degrees Fahrenheit
Pictures taken — 1,219
Some things to look for:
Overexposure in most of the frames. This is because
Manual Focus on the Canon A480
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Canon A480 doesn’t have manual focus of course, but by adding CHDK it does! At first the feature appears to be broken, so here is a short video demonstrating how it works. It’s called Subject Distance Override and to turn it on in record mode press Mode then up (ISO).
It’s amazing how Pinnacle Studio
The Big Dipper / Plough
about 1 year ago - No comments
A total of 105 exposures at 30 seconds each, ISO 400. Canon A480 running CHDK. No in-camera noise reduction. Four dark frames. It took just over an hour to take the pictures.
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Astrophotography and CHDK
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CHDK is an alternative firmware for many Canon cameras, particularly point and shoot and I previously wrote about it here. One of the nice features is the ability to take continuous pictures for long periods, which makes taking photographs of the night sky possible with a low cost camera.
Here are my first experiments to see
