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Thanks for the precisions. The eclipse is only 3 days ago... I hope everything works!

jf

OK, so it looks like creating a keyframe dedicated to changing the interval time works! Maybe there is a bog in the code when changing multiple parameters in one keyframe? I'll try to have a look at the code when I have a minute.

jf

Thanks for the answer @dmilligan. Using "Leave menu" instead of "Take a pic" to start the sequence seems to work!
The shutter speed is now updated at the given keyframes. However, I still have a problem when trying to change the interval time. I tried to reduce interval time from 5 seconds (the parameter given in the 'normal' ML intervalometer) to 2 seconds on the third keyframe but it did not work. I'll try to run more tests tonight. One possible problem is that I was trying to change both shutter speed and interval time on this keyframe. Shutter speed did change correctly, but not interval. Maybe I should try with a key frame dedicated to changing interval.
Also, is the interval ramped or is it an absolute changed? For example, say I start with an interval of 10 seconds, and I set a keyframe to change the interval to 1 second at the 10th frame. Will the interval be 10 seconds for the first 10 images and then switch to 1 second or will the interval slowly decrease from 10 seconds, to 9, then 9, 8, 7... all the way to 1 second? If it is the latter, I imagine that one solution to obtain a direct transition would be to add a keyframe just before the one with interval=1second and set it to interval=10sec, so that there would be no ramping.

Thanks again for providing this very useful module to the community !

jf

This module seems extremely useful for what I want to do (pictures of a lunar eclipse), thanks for making this available. Unfortunately, I'm having some big issues running it on a 5D Mark II (ML nightly build March 22, 2015). The ramping seems to work only ~1 in 10 times and I cannot figure out what makes it work/not work (although re-booting and starting from fresh seems to help).
For example, I would set the ML intervalometer to take 8 pictures with 3 seconds interval (start when taking first picture) and turn on the advanced intervallmeter with the following keyframes:
- keyframe 1 (=after 3secs): Shutter speed = 1/2000
- keyframe 4 (=after 12secs): Shutter speed = 1/800

When I exit the menu, my shutter speed on the canon display is set to 1/800... So, I put it back to 1/2000 and start the series of pictures. The intervalometer works fine (it takes the 8 pictures, with 3 seconds in-between each) but there is no ramping at all! I was hoping to see ny shutter speed move up to 1/800 at frame #4 (with possibly some ramping between on frames 3 and 4), but no, nothing. It's like the advanced intervalometer is not doing anything!

I checked the list of keyframes before starting the series of pictures and my 2 keyframes show up correctly. I also tried with external trigger ON/OFF, but no luck.

I ran maybe 20 tests like that, trying to reboot, change the start/end parameters, ... and maybe 2 or 3 times it did what I wanted but I could not figure out why it worked on these specific occasions but not the rest of the time.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

jf

Hi everybody,

I'd like to share with you this video I recorded of the November 3rd 2013 solar eclipse at sunrise. I recorded at 21fps, so that I could keep a pretty good resolution. RAW recording and then I imported the DNG files into Adobe after effects to make the video. No HDR or any fancy post processing.

It's (almost) real time, so it goes slow (nothing like a time lapse) but that was my goal: to show things the way they really are. In the beginning, the clouds block the view and you need to wait a little bit before you can actually see that a piece of the sun is missing, taken away by the moon. But that was part of the event for me: waiting anxiously for the sun to come out of the clouds, and I wanted this to be part of the video.

The music was recorded specifically for this video by a friend of mine who improvised directly while watching the video (a couple of hours of work were necessary before obtaining a music that I liked ...).

So, if you have ~3 minutes of free time, turn on the volume, switch to full screen + HD and I hope you enjoy this moment of serenity.

Cheers,

Jean-Francois