How to properly make a time lapse vid?

[playaslk]

Hey guys, I am playing around w/ a canon 60d. I want to set up a basic growth time lapse. I looked around and read articles on how to do this and ofcourse I need to purchase a intervalometer.

My question is, most (or all) of them have a 100hour memory). I want to do a years worth of pictures. Lets say 1 pic per hour during light-on times (8 pics a day)--everyday for a year.

How can I do this?

Thanks!!

 

[SanClementeEric]

That's the time frame I want to do too (a year). 'Cept I'm going to buy intervalometers for gopros.

I'll look into this as I have a T2i too and some friends that do time-lapse.

First thought is you'd have to start over every hundredth hour.

 

[playaslk]

First thought is you'd have to start over every hundredth hour.

not sure what that means? take a pic every 100 hours? that would be a very short movie?

 

[SanClementeEric]

not sure what that means? take a pic every 100 hours? that would be a very short movie?

Nope. That's not what I meant. You said they have 100 hour memory. What do you mean by that?

 

[playaslk]

The timer can be set anywhere from 1 sec. to 99 hrs., 59 min., 59 sec. The maximum number of exposure is 399.

thats off the info page for the unit. i dont quite know what that means. Is the longest time it could wait between pics 100 hours? or the most total time it can operate is 100 hours?

 

[SanClementeEric]

Looking these up, I think you mean you can set them to shoot intervals up to once every hundred hours. (When you said memory, i thought that meant that's all it could remember and thus my comment that you'd have to start over. But forget that now.) What you have to do is select how often you want the picture to be taken. Then remove the ones you don't want in post (aka whatever software you're going to use to edit the pictures together.)

 

[SanClementeEric]

Since the max exposures is 399, which seems low, that means you only get 13 seconds of video. That's considering going 30 frames (or pictures) per second. 13x30=390. And thus, you'd have to start over as many times as you would need to, to create a longer video. I think you need to look into different kinds of intervalometer options to achieve what you want to do. And are you willing to leave your camera for a whole year?

 

[playaslk]

I bought it for taking pics of the tank and it's been in a box for a year. So it's ok to leave it for another year. I don't know of it can be done but let's say my lights are on from 3-9... Is it possible to use one of these units to only take a pic per hour staring at three and ending at 9?