My first time lapse movie
March 29th, 2008 at 05:26pm I wanted to try some time lapse photography which presented a few problems. The biggest one was actually triggering my Nikon D70 at a programmable interval. There are commercial intervalometers out there but they tend to be pretty expensive. In Nikon's infinite wisdom they included an IR shutter trigger instead of the traditional wired trigger which made things tricky. I ended up buying a programmable Arduino microcontroller and infrared LED. My sad looking prototype looks like this:
IR LED gets hooked up with a 1k ohm resistor and then I uploaded a program to the board that emits pulses at my desired interval. So here's my first time lapse movie made from about 1000 frames, it's a very exciting clock.
3 Comments Add your own
1. sarah | March 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Jamie and I think your picture is very cool. She said she wants you to take tons of candids at her wedding.
I am glad you got your time lapse thing to work.
2. nathan118 | March 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Looks dope bro. Now you just need a nice housing for your circuit board and you’re set.
3. Chris Luna | March 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I’m glad I don’t know anything about cameras.
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