{"id":473,"date":"2011-08-01T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/?p=473"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:15:03","slug":"time-lapse-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/01\/time-lapse-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Time-Lapse Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve recently taken an interest in time-lapse photography. It\u2019s a fun and easy aspect of photography to get involved with, and it has the potential to produce some interesting results. Plus, you don\u2019t need a high-end camera to produce quality video: it only takes 1.6 megapixels (1440 x 1080) to assemble an HD-quality output file, which is available nowadays on many phone cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a spare digital camera from 2001 handy: the RCA CDS6300, a 2.3 megapixel camera which is a real piece of junk. Mine has a broken battery door. On the plus side, it came with an AC adapter. So I built an intervalometer based on a 555 timer from a guide on Instructables<\/a>. In the process of hacking the camera to attach the timer, I broke most of the inputs, so that it can now only be used to take time-lapse photos. It shoots 650+ images to a 256mb CF card as JPEG images, and then a bit of free software can be used to assemble these into a \u201cmotion JPEG\u201d AVI video file (and add soundtrack if desired).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fragile build quality of the intervalometer, the mostly non-functional camera, and low quality still images \u2013 the resulting video still looks great. Here are a couple of sample videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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