C100: Timelapse Day to night, or vice versa?

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corycross

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Has anyone ever tried using their C100 to do time-lapse? I'd love to see some samples of someones work using it for night time/ wide angle stuff of the stars or day-to-night time lapses or night to day

Thanks!
 
Due to no timelapse mode on the C100 (unlike the C300), most of us who need shorter sequences just record real-time and speed up using a 'time-echo' style plugin, or by using the 'slow shutter' or 'accumulation shutter' mode. Better quality and flexibility from using a DSLR like the Canon 550D in partnership (same media, same lenses, similar sized sensor).

I'm really hoping we can convince Atomos to include a timelapse mode in their Ninja Blade. In step with the Slow Shutter, we could approach that dreamy fluid timelapse look one can achieve from the PMW-EX1/3 quickly and easily.

Lurkers: Timelapses in the Event niche cover the 1 frame per second (flows of people, reasonable activity of around 5-20 minutes) to 2 frame per second (boiling clouds over your client's HQ). At least with the EX1 you can run a test to see if it's worth 5-20 mins, whereas recording realtime means you can't preview, and it tends to give you comedic/keystone cops rather than arty 'time flows' from an accumulation shutter.
 
MattDavis said:
Due to no timelapse mode on the C100 (unlike the C300), most of us who need shorter sequences just record real-time and speed up using a 'time-echo' style plugin, or by using the 'slow shutter' or 'accumulation shutter' mode. Better quality and flexibility from using a DSLR like the Canon 550D in partnership (same media, same lenses, similar sized sensor).

I'm really hoping we can convince Atomos to include a timelapse mode in their Ninja Blade. In step with the Slow Shutter, we could approach that dreamy fluid timelapse look one can achieve from the PMW-EX1/3 quickly and easily.

Lurkers: Timelapses in the Event niche cover the 1 frame per second (flows of people, reasonable activity of around 5-20 minutes) to 2 frame per second (boiling clouds over your client's HQ). At least with the EX1 you can run a test to see if it's worth 5-20 mins, whereas recording realtime means you can't preview, and it tends to give you comedic/keystone cops rather than arty 'time flows' from an accumulation shutter.
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Can you clarify "slow shutter or accumulation shutter" that you mentioned? Are these c100 features that I am unaware of or are they aftermarket plugins?

Thanks.
 
On page 53 of the manual, it illustrates the four shutter modes plus the off setting.

The Slow mode offers down to 1/3rd second in PF24 mode - nothing like the EX1s ability to merge 16 to 64 consecutive frames into one exposure, or the FS100/700 1 second per frame but better than nothing.
 
Thanks Matt Davis… so a better image comes out when using a slower shutter, good to know and thank you. I would be recording for around an hour probably, speeding up in post and just seeing how it turns out.

I have tried using the Canon 6D before, shot jpeg though and wasn't able to get the clean/smooth transitions between night to day correct. I guess even more post work is needed to get that smooth transition between lighting. I am also using on Konova slider/ SYRP genie to get some motion.

This job coming up I am just using what I have which is slider, c100 but I never tested it out before. So hopefully it will work out fine.

Thanks
 
I love my C100, but if I am shooting a time lapse, I'm using my 7D. If you have a 6d at your disposal, any time lapse you do is going to look better with that. Shoot in RAW and aperture priority mode. Then you can use something like RAWblend. You tell it what you want your first and last frames to look like and it figures out everything in between. Using aperture priority can sometimes cause some flicker when you do day to night TL. For that you can use something like GBDeflicker. It sounds like a lot of steps, but it really isn't that much of hassle. A lot of it is automated and the results are pretty great. Here's a link that I found pretty helpful in my quest for a clean day to night TL.
 
After reading this thread I tried to make a short time lapse with the C100 and Sigma 70-300 mm (the really cheap one). Its approximately 40 minutes compressed to 31 seconds, and probably not a genuine time lapse at all. The weather phenomenon, on the other hand, is quite interesting.

 
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