Motion Control Timelapse Footage Promotion

thanks!

thanks!

Barakamazing! Wow, thanks for the huge compliment Christopher.

Thanks for the important error info too. The abstract clip should work now.

Cheers.

Kind regards,

Nick
 
Nick, using a digital SLR, something like a Nikon D200 or other?

Without giving too much away, as I am sure some of your techniques for motion/pan/tilt are perhaps a secret, however, did you make your own motion units, mechanical or electrical? Don't tell me you had a Milo MOCO in the outback? :D
 
We use canon DSLR'S with external intervolmeters although I hear some Nikon's have inbuilt intervolmeter?

No Milo Moco sadly! Our rigs are customed made, part mechanical, part electrical (stepper motors). We worked with an engineer to create them. Draining process!
 
I have a Camera Turret PT24 Pan/Tilt head. I purchased additional motors with gear ratio 2000:1 for slow timelapse movement. I have not got around to changing the standard motors out, and using the slow ones for timelapse. You have some cool timelapse shots that may actually fit into a project I have coming up at the end of the year.

Are the shots in the demo/sample mov file indicative of the full length of each shot? Are all the shots available on the DVD's actually shown in the demo?

I'll keep in touch, I am up on the Gold Coast, AU.
 
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We use canon DSLR'S with external intervolmeters although I hear some Nikon's have inbuilt intervolmeter?
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I don't have a digital SLR. With all the Nikon lenses I am acquiring for use with my Brevis 35mm adapter, I am considering purchasing the Nikon D80. No idea about the intervolmeter, though it would be a bonus. I don't have time to do timelapse now. Cheers.
 
Christopher Barry said:
I have a Camera Turret PT24 Pan/Tilt head. I purchased additional motors with gear ratio 2000:1 for slow timelapse movement. I have not got around to changing the standard motors out, and using the slow ones for timelapse. You have some cool timelapse shots that may actually fit into a project I have coming up at the end of the year.

Are the shots in the demo/sample mov file indicative of the full length of each shot? Are all the shots available on the DVD's actually shown in the demo?

I'll keep in touch, I am up on the Gold Coast, AU.
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If/when you wire up the gearbox to the turret PT24, let me know how slow the movement is? Can you stop/start the movement to take a photo in between?

The videos on our website are NOT indicative of the full length. If you look in the right hand corner of the video screen, it displays the full length of each clip. All the shots in the videos ARE in included in the package. Let me know if you wish to see any full length versions.

We shot a timelapse on the Gold Coast in February this year for our "Modern Life & Culture" disc. That city shot might look familiar to you :)
 
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The PT24 2000:1 motors "for movement so slow it can't be seen". (Quoting Lou)

There is no switch on and off button for movement increments. Use of the joy stick controls pan and/or tilt. See my above link for explanation. Lou at Camera Turret is helpful and can answer any specific question you may have for your particular timelapse use. Just email him.

Here is the joy stick. Click on these photos to enlarge.

Am I correct in saying that the last timelapse shot from the "Modern Life & Culture" sample/demo mov is of Surfers Paradox? You should have seen Surfers 25 years ago. :D
 
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Thanks for the links - I'll look into that.

You are correct - I remember holidaying in surfers when I was 10, there sure have been a lot of changes since then!
 
Hey guys.. just joined up and so glad to see the timelapse conversation is alive and well here!!

I do have a D200 and it does have a built in intervolmeter - if yall have any questions...

My BIG QUESTION to quenchstudios is how did you do the dolly shots?? Or is it just pan/scan in post? I've been using a telescope head for single axis pans but I'm totally intriqued with your dolly looking shots???

Also how to do eliminate the dreaded... timelapse flicker?

some fuzzy youtube samples of my timelapse addiction: www.youtube.com/milapse
 
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Upshot - do you get flickers in all your timelapses?

If it's only artificial lit timelapses - could be inconsistencies in your power source.

If it's all timelapses - check the settings on your camera are on manual.

The Dolly shots are achieved with a wheel based unit that sits on tracks. One wheel has a stepper motor attached driving the unit.

Let me know if you have any more questions.
 
For the most part I try to go all manual but there are those situations where you want to get a range of lighting over time so in such case I use an app priority. The flicker seems to come and go but I think I've isolated it to higher f-stop settings. The theory being that the very tiny differences every time the camera dials down the exposure.
 
Yeah it's be good if there was a camera out there where you could set exposure "a" to gradually move to exposure "b" over a nominated timeframe.

Does anyone know if such a function exists on a dslr out there?
 
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Yeah it's be good if there was a camera out there where you could set exposure "a" to gradually move to exposure "b" over a nominated timeframe.
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That would be a killer ap. It may be a function in gbtimelapse (for Cannons) or Nikon's control software... but, I'm just not a fan of being tetherded to a laptop. I find it's enough to be tehered to a power source... I use this little unit for a power source in the field BTW:

http://www.blackanddecker.com/ProductGuide/Product-Details.aspx?ProductID=15589

works like a charm!
 
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