can fs100 do time-lapse?
- Thread starter robfilms
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Fs100 does a wonderful job at time lapses via s&q mode by adjusting the frame rate.
AtticusLake
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You can shoot frame rates down to 1FPS, and shutter times up to 1 second. I've actually tried shooting stars with it, but sadly, it's just not quite that sensitive... only the brighter stars are visible, and it's pretty noisy at +24dB. At +30dB on a 1-second exposure, the noise goes crazy. But with any more available light, it's great. Using a long shutter time really smooths out the action.
EDV
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Okay, here is what I don't understand. Several tests have proven the FS100 is better in low light than the 5D Mark iii, which has been used for time lapses all over the world. If the FS100 is much better in low light.. how come it can't shoot starry skies at night, which the 5D does beautifully? Is the 5D still the better choice for Time Lapse and Hyper lapses, even with FS100 and FS700 now in the market?
Geoff Gilson
Active member
You can shoot 22 megapixel raw time-lapses with the 5D3. Much more colour depth and spatial information for down-sampling.
Also more choices of shutter speeds and intervals with still cameras.
No chance of getting raw out of an FS100. (But we all have dreams.) Even then it would only be 3.5MP compared to 22MP.
Even then, there's nothing stopping you shooting starry time-lapses with one. Just make sure to use a sensible picture profile and expose properly.
Also more choices of shutter speeds and intervals with still cameras.
No chance of getting raw out of an FS100. (But we all have dreams.) Even then it would only be 3.5MP compared to 22MP.
Even then, there's nothing stopping you shooting starry time-lapses with one. Just make sure to use a sensible picture profile and expose properly.
The 5D3 and other stills cameras are designed to be able to shoot with the shutter open for a long time without generating a lot of extra noise. Earlier digital still cameras really struggled with this. The fs100 may not be designed to do this, hence the extra noise. You may be better off using a stills camera for time lapse with a built in intervalometer, though I have yet to experiment with the fs100 as a time lapse camera myself.
Ebrahim Saadawi
Carbonite Member
Remember the FS100 video is better and less noisy than the 5D VIDEO. Not stills. The stills of the 5D compared to the FS100 have significantly more information (6K vs 1080p) which translates into better high ISO performance when downsampled and the noise is fine, it's also 14bit colour depth gradations vs 8bit compressed to 4:2:0. It's raw, it can shoot each frame for 30 seconds vs 1 second on the FS100.
A 5D is still the perfect camera for timelapse videography, the FS100 can do well but not nearly close at all. In fact, you can get very similar timelapse quality to the 5D with a 200$ used T2i. A much better timelapse camera than an video camera out there and virtually identical to the 5D in the final downscaled image quality and features.
A 5D is still the perfect camera for timelapse videography, the FS100 can do well but not nearly close at all. In fact, you can get very similar timelapse quality to the 5D with a 200$ used T2i. A much better timelapse camera than an video camera out there and virtually identical to the 5D in the final downscaled image quality and features.