Here’s another time lapse, this time I set a fixed exposure to make things look better. I did a 15 second interval which might have been a tad too long.
My first time lapse movie
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.