Intervals and a Cabo sunrise

[Joe_Lorenzini]

While down in Cabo last week I finally got a chance to play with intervals. Using the Nikon D2X I was able to schedule a photo shoot without having to be there.

I set up the camera on a tripod facing the south-east (I did not want the sun in the frame for this test). I set the focus on manual and the metering on matrix. I configured the camera to start shooting at 5:30am and take 240 consecutive shots a minute apart. That would cover me for 4 hours. I set up the camera on the balcony, turned it on and went to bed.

The camera ran out of juice at shot 228.

For those with broadband, you can download the 14MB mpg movie here:
http://www.joelorenzini.com/dp/cabo.mpg


Here's frame 204 from the animation:


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[StudioDesigntC]

What a clever idea! I think that came out really well... it was interesting watching the ship jig about in the water.

[AjP]

nice, looks really cool... smart a$$ :)

[NoLight]

man thats cool!!! But what the heck was the cruise ship doing it looked liked a little old lady tying to parallel park...???!!!

[Joe_Lorenzini]

The cruise ships drop anchor and let the tide swing them around. I'm not sure what the heck this ship was doing as it was drifting all over the place. An hour later, two more arrived and it looked like a parking lot out there...

[Detonate]

What did you use to encode the video? Apparently I don't have the right codec. :(

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Hmmmm... It was some third party program that compresses photos into an MPG. I'll have to look, I'm terrible with video.

[Detonate]

It might be MPEG2, that is not a free codec, so you normally don't have it until you install some type of software DVD player on your computer.

I'll try it when I get home from work.