Time-lapse on any camera, using Arduino
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2014
- An easy and quick way to enable time-lapse photography on any camera, regardless if it has time-lapse capability or not, and regardless of brand or model. Requires close to no prior knowledge of Arduino, though a healthy sense of being able to read instructions is very helpful.
For a closer look at the schematics look at the PDF located here: switchandlever.com/plans/timed...
The files used in this project can be downloaded here: www.switchandlever.com/plans/t...
If you liked what you saw consider buying plans or donating a buck over at the Switch & Lever online store: www.switchandlever.com/store
Arduino Servo example: arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Sweep
Light Bulb designed by A.Dinagar from the thenounproject.com
Pointing designed by Luis Prado from the thenounproject.com
Video:
Milky way route 292 shiga kusatsu road 1920x1080 by mockmoon2000
from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...
Earthbag Structure Time-Lapse by Jacob Zolt and Zeke Woods
from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...
2160p Demo - 3840x2160 pixel 4k Video - a timelapse project by Florian Friedrich
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All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Music:
Josh Woodward - Adventures of the Deaf Dreamer
Josh Woodward - Cherubs
Josh Woodward - I will Not Let You Let Me Down
I don't understand Arduino very well but still found this video fascinating. Way to go Switch & Lever.
Brilliant idea. I especially like the second unit that you made, I can imagine a lot of work going into that!
Super awesome!
Cheers!
Great man! Have you one project to rotates the camera at the earth velocity?
It is nice to see Electronic related videos on you channel. I would have used a standard 2x16 character LCD instead of seven segment and shift registers. This way it would be possible to show number of shots taken.
Très intéressants vos montages .
Great video! The camera I bought to film my videos does not allow USB control either. I think I'll make one of these.thanks!
Very cool: how is possible to use a display and the relative schetch for controlling motor? Maybe a near project? Thanks.
Matt M, yes and no. Some cameras can be controlled via USB interface, the camera I built this for (the Sony RX-100, unfortunately I'm shooting the video with that camera, so the old crappy Canon was used as a standin) cannot, and many others can't either. If you can solve it without using a servo, it's way better, but that's not always the case.
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So, yeah, you can't control a Sony RX-100 over USB. But you can control the Canon in your video (not actually the objective of your project) and lots of other cameras, but not every camera.
It's always fun to play with servos. I enjoyed your video.
nice! i will make this!
Good project
Cool idea, a cheap ($5) spi lcd module might be nicer for the second project as it would require alot less wiring. Keep them coming
Indeed, that would definitely be a good idea as well. I did the seven segment displays for two main reasons, I like the way they look and I had been wanting to learn how to contrl shift registers for some time. So I killed two birds with one stone you might say.
This is so awesome but I am afraid it is quite a bit over my skill set. Do you have any for sale pre-made?
+Guenevere Schwien nope, but there are devices like these available. Should be easy enough to find with Google.
Arduino is dirt cheap you can buy for $5. I've been learning arduino for 8 months now I've done 15 or more projects and still have no idea how to code yet, I just copy n paste.
for cannon cameras you can use CHDK for timelapses
Indeed, but as I wrote in a comment just recently, this project was actually made for a Sony RX-100, but since I'm using that to shoot the actual video it's hard to show the steps on that. Hence, the old Canon had to do all the stunts.
I've used CHDK both successfully, and not, in the sense that it corrupted an SD card beyond repair. Anytime you're messing around with firmware, even if it's a temporary firmware hack like CHDK you should be careful.
thanks gj i want make it.
very nice
Great idea. i did build a machine similar to this one a couple of years ago but with lego mindstoms.
Greets from Denmark
That's cool! Is there anything you can't do with LEGO I wonder?
Sinve you want to make timelapse on a RX 100 you can just switch to continious mode and put a mini clamp on the shutter button to keep it depressed. Or use an elastic band with a small button on the shutter button. The continious mode will do just that - continiously shoot pictures. Most cameras have continious mode.
In the beginning the shutter will operate fast but after a couple of seconds the speed will slow down and operate according to the valus for shutterspeed and aperature that you have entered. Always use manual mode... Search for Dan marchetti RX100 time lapse tutorial. He has a two part video on how to do timelapse with the RX100. I learned from him.
A much better way because you dont want movement on the camera as it is taking all the pictures.
That's not quite how it works. Why it goes fast to begin with is because you're filling up the cache, the temporary storage in the camera where images gets stored while being transferred to the memory card. When the cache is full something need to go out of the cache (i.e. to the memory card) for something new to be written to it, that's why it slows down because even though the cache is super fast, writing to a memory card is by comparison much slower. If you have a faster memory card the time between each shot will be less than if you have a slow memory card.
Either way, it's not a terribly good way to control a timelapse, as it's dependant on factors which are out of your control (i.e. write speeds of cache and memory card). What if you only want to take one photo every ten seconds? It's impossible with that method. What if you want to run the camera on power and shoot a time lapse over the course of an entire day, or even for just a few hours? Also impossible, unless you have an absolute monster of a memory card, and even then you end up with so many unnecessary images you'd just be better off shooting a video in the first place.
That is why you want to be able to control the timings properly, and that's why it's sad that Sony chose to keep that functionality out of the RX100.
:-) ten points!
nice
You can also control the camera over USB using an Arduino and a couple freely available libraries. I think this is the place to start:
www.circuitsathome.com/ptpusb-control-camera-data
GOOD^^maker who you are...
that tripod probably cost more than the camera he used lol. for my nikon I use $2 tripod for toy telescope and it works just fine