I recently bought a Pixel TC-252 intervalometer for making time-lapse videos. The instruction manual is horribly translated and is next to incomprehensible, so I have to make notes based on trial-and-error.
- The remote control has 4 settings; single, multi, bulb, delay. For time-lapses we use the delay, on its second mode. the first mode on the delay setting is for taking one pic only.
- To access the second delay mode we only need to press the right arrow one more time. If we keep pressing the right arrow, we will get the other options for this mode, which are; delay time, exposure time (indicated by "LONG" icon), interval time and Number of of shots.
- The delay time is pretty clear.
- The exposure time is the time we keep the shutter button pressed. If we want 2 or more shots every time the shutter is pressed, then we have to set the camera on multi.
- The interval time, as I see it right now, is the same as the delay. If someone knows this to be wrong, please explain.
- One thing to keep in mind while connecting the remote to the camera, is that the end of the cables DO matter. If you look at the instruction manual, there's a little picture of how to connect it, If you don't follow this instruction the camera will think that instead of a remote there's a microphone plugged in.
- The camera mode is on manual. I want to avoid flickering in the final video, so I leave everything on one manual setting.
That's it for now. I'll update this as I learn more about it.
- The remote control has 4 settings; single, multi, bulb, delay. For time-lapses we use the delay, on its second mode. the first mode on the delay setting is for taking one pic only.
- To access the second delay mode we only need to press the right arrow one more time. If we keep pressing the right arrow, we will get the other options for this mode, which are; delay time, exposure time (indicated by "LONG" icon), interval time and Number of of shots.
- The delay time is pretty clear.
- The exposure time is the time we keep the shutter button pressed. If we want 2 or more shots every time the shutter is pressed, then we have to set the camera on multi.
- The interval time, as I see it right now, is the same as the delay. If someone knows this to be wrong, please explain.
- One thing to keep in mind while connecting the remote to the camera, is that the end of the cables DO matter. If you look at the instruction manual, there's a little picture of how to connect it, If you don't follow this instruction the camera will think that instead of a remote there's a microphone plugged in.
- The camera mode is on manual. I want to avoid flickering in the final video, so I leave everything on one manual setting.
That's it for now. I'll update this as I learn more about it.
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