First post of my first Time Lapse...........

Started by nveo, March 30, 2015, 09:54:35 AM

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nveo

This is the first time lapse I have done... The camera stopped at 309 shots and gave me a error about my card, I tried to restart it but didn't work for some reason  :-\..... I will be trying this again soon.....

Canon 5D MK2 | Canon EOS M | 70-200mm F2.8 | 85mm F1.2 | 50mm F1.2 | 40mm F2.8 Pancake | 20mm F1.8 Sigma | 18-55mm M lens | 430ex II | 580ex II

ansius

:)

some sugestions:
*) try having longer shutter times, in essence the best would be 1/2 interval time, it creates motion blur thus the time lapse would look smooth. You either will need to close diaphragm and/or use HD filters.
*) I've noticed that some cards become unstable when get close to full, and you should format them once in a while
*) one practice that I have found really useful is to reset file number counter, it creates new folder and starts numbering from 0000, much easier to manage files.
Canon EOS 7D & 40D, EF-S 17-85mm IS USM, EF 28-300mm IS USM, Mir-20, Mir-1, Helios 44-5, Zenitar ME1, Industar 50-2, Industar 61L/Z-MC, Jupiter 37A, TAIR-3
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nveo

Thank you for your reply and sugestions  :D

I will try the longer shutter times and see how it goes....... I think the card I was using is bad, when I format the card in the camera it show as having just under 8gb of space and it is a 32gb card, but when I format it on my laptop it goes back to 32gb.......... :-\ :-\ I used my 16gb this morning and very thing worked well... :D
Canon 5D MK2 | Canon EOS M | 70-200mm F2.8 | 85mm F1.2 | 50mm F1.2 | 40mm F2.8 Pancake | 20mm F1.8 Sigma | 18-55mm M lens | 430ex II | 580ex II

RobFlanders

As ansius said - longer frame times would increase the motion blur and make it look smooth.  :)