Nikon D60 Time Lapse Software

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I thought that I would venture into some time lapse photography and then discovered that the Nikon D60 doesn't actually come with any time lapse program settings or software. A brief search of the internet led me to some software by Deneys De Beer called Cam Control. It's a free peice of software which I've tried and liked very much. So much that I thought that I ought to share it with anyone else that is or could be interested in doing a bit of time lapse photography (and has a Nikon D60 obviously hehe)

The software download can be found at: http://www.d-software.co.za/index.html
I've downloaded and tested it and it works fine for me although you should always use caution and virus protection with any third party software and you do so at your own risk.

[KevM]

Good post Topic.

I have never thought of having a go at timelapse, but since you mention it .......

As I have a Canon, I have found http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/.

I've been messing around with the free trial, but am now trying to find the best software ( at a good price ) to edit all the images together and add some music etc.

Will keep you posted on my progress.

It would be nice to see some others take on your idea and see what folk can produce.

Cheers, Kev

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Rendering software I eventually settled for was the Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ which has a neat little 'Make Video' button so that many individual shots can be imported with the click of a button rather than dragging them in individually. I'm sure there must be other better ways of doing this although I managed to get the transition down to under a second by adding a piece of music and telling the 'slide show' to match the music. In effect, 420 shots in around 3 minutes which should be about 4 pictures per second. (I love the automatic 'Face Recognition' side of this free software, it's very accurate) Renders the video file and offers upload to Youtube etc. (Did I mention that it was free? )

This was just one of my little tests to try and get the hang of it. I also discovered that it's propbably better to have the camera set on a manual focus because I discovered that mine was trying to refocus after a while with the change of light, distance and images over a period of time. Just one of those little things that I didn't consider before setting everything up to test it. At least I'm now better prepared for the next attempt. (Did I tell you that I just bought a crazy piece of kit, a tripod with a motorised head unit... )

This was the result of my first test: http://www.manxtube.com/video/1652/Port-Erin-Beach-Timelapse Pictures were at 5 second intervals.

This was another attempt whilst playing with Iphone Timelaps (c.£1.95 for the App), renders, has a choice of music and facilitates upload to Facebook or Youtube: http://www.manxtube.com/video/1648/IPhone-Time-Lapse-Douglas

I can't wait for my new tripod to arrive so I can try some of the Milapse stuff. http://www.youtube.com/user/milapse

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Where did I go to school?

My maths must be appalling, 420 pictures in three minutes would be around 2 - 3 pictures per second. Now I can't remember if there were 720 pictures or 420....