Is a Sunrise Time-Lapse possible with stock lens?

EDV

EDV

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Has anybody tried it?
I want a "close up" of the sun in the distance ("The Contender" style, if anybody here watches that show), but I won't be using any specialized lenses, only the stock lens the HPX comes with.

Something along the lines of this would be nice:




thanks in advance,

EDV
 
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EDV,

That example is a pretty tough one to match.

What HPX camera do you have?

A trick that I use is to shoot at a higher resolution than what you really need. So, I shoot the moon rise at 1080i, when I really only need 480p. I can then zoom into the moon to make a better "close up", as if I had a large telephoto lens.

Go get it!
Andrew
 
Never point the camera at anything you wouldn't look at with your eyes because you can damage the sensor. Grab as many ND filters as you need until you can look at it comfortably.
 
Thanks for the tips guys, I have an HPX172 (PAL), unfortunately I'm stuck with the stock lens for now.
 
I have shot 10 minutes into midday sun for some timelapse footage. I did not know at that time, that it could hurt my sensor. There where some clouds going through, but the sun was staring right at my sensor for at least 2 minutes straight at some point. I see no problems as of yet. So I cross my fingers. (It was a HPX-170)

Of course I was working at Full ND (stock filters onboard), and iris almost closed. So, maybe that saved my sensor a bit.
 
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http://www.les.herstik.com/gallery2/v/Stock+Footage/Sunrise/

These are my first original test shots with the HVX202 when I first got the camera back in 96'..

I'm not sure about damaging the sensor???... seems like a bit of a throw back to when we had tube camera's.. then there was an issue with hot spots...

Have done extreme closeups with a 1600 lens on 16mm and had to use a bunch of ND filters to get it right... as I remember I used a ND 4 + ND 8...

Cheers
 
Lez said:
http://www.les.herstik.com/gallery2/v/Stock+Footage/Sunrise/

These are my first original test shots with the HVX202 when I first got the camera back in 96'..

I'm not sure about damaging the sensor???... seems like a bit of a throw back to when we had tube camera's.. then there was an issue with hot spots...

Have done extreme closeups with a 1600 lens on 16mm and had to use a bunch of ND filters to get it right... as I remember I used a ND 4 + ND 8...

Cheers
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96? Holy Shid..you must have some pretty good friends at Panasonic..!
 
"Never point the camera at anything you wouldn't look at with your eyes because you can damage the sensor. Grab as many ND filters as you need until you can look at it comfortably."

That's Great advice;)

Someone mentioned earlier the use of internal ND filters. Is this enough protection (stopping down as well) for the sensor or is it mandatory (or wise) to use external filters as well?
 
The built in ND filters (I don't even own a mattebox) seem to protect the sensor. I have shot over 300 sunset/sunrise and other sun related clips on my 200, directly into the sun at all times of day.

An average of 10 minutes for each TL means 3000 minutes or 50 hours directly into the sun, and it still works perfectly. Either I somehow got Supercamera or shooting into the sun (with ND's on) has no ill effect.

Has anyone here ever had a sensor damaged by the sun?
 
I still reckon it's a throw back to tube cameras.... How many times have you sen welding on TV...

I've actually destroyed a tube camera back in the 80's shooting welding...

I would not be too concerned today...

Cheers
 
I worked with tube cameras in the 70's too. First thing they told us in TV production class was not to point into the sun. I saw many damaged when they were. Never heard of damage once CCD's came out though, even though the warnings were still in the manual.
 
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