time lapse question?.

[stewart bradshaw]

Does anyone know of a digital compact camera with a time lapse function and full manual control?. I am thinking of placing one in the bell ringers loft of a church for a wedding next year . to capture the church filling up, the ceremony and then everyone leaving. final use would either be as a small animation or some prints in a series in a book type album. I can vaguely remember canons G series doing something like this.
Is this something that others have done, do you have any reccomendations?.

Thanks Stewart.....

[LuisE]

Does anyone know of a digital compact camera with a time lapse function and full manual control?. I am thinking of placing one in the bell ringers loft of a church for a wedding next year . to capture the church filling up, the ceremony and then everyone leaving. final use would either be as a small animation or some prints in a series in a book type album. I can vaguely remember canons G series doing something like this.
Is this something that others have done, do you have any reccomendations?.

Thanks Stewart.....

Powershot G6.

[tim]

Alternately the fancy Canon remote control for the EOS digital cameras can do this.

[gjl711]

Nikon 8700 or Nikon 8800 do as well.

[JMW-Photo]

I can't remember if my G-5 does it specifically, but I think it can be set up by connecting the camera to a computer (laptop in your situation) and used one of the included Canon software programs.

[Banbert]

I had a canon Pro 1 and that used to be able to do that, was a very nice "non slr" camera, even had an L lens. :)

I did have a mess with some time lapse myself with it and it was great for that, even switched itself off between shots to save battery power.

The guy is hoot with is a big fan of time lapse and we are going to do some for some of our gigs next year to integrate into our DVD slideshow, church/reception filling up before wedding is the obvious one but if we get good weather at some nice locations we also plan to do some outside stuff as well .... nice wide angles of people mulling around with the the reception venue in the background and the clouds sliding over will look nice hopefully. TC-80N3 is what we will probably use for this.

[HuskerTony]

The Canon S2 IS can. Page 107 of the manual. Intervalometer.

You can shoot images at a set interval. This function can be used for fixed-point observation. From 1 to 60 minutes and 2 to 100 images can be shot,

[MrTED]

Alternately the fancy Canon remote control for the EOS digital cameras can do this.

Tim,

I am curious on how this works. Are you saying that by setting up a Canon Remote pointing at the camera, it will take time lapse photographs?

Nathan

[Banbert]

Tim,

I am curious on how this works. Are you saying that by setting up a Canon Remote pointing at the camera, it will take time lapse photographs?

Nathan


I think he means the TC-80N3 which is a cable remote control but also has a self timer, interval timer and long exposure timer in it that will allow you to do the time lapse stuff, the "non fancy" cheaper cable remote (RS-80N3) control doesnt have these functions so you cant do time lapse with it.

[Biko]

Problem using a compact camera on intervalometer is AFAIK G series and others such as S2 shortest time is 1 pic a minute.

Even if you run the frame rate at 10 fps you will only get 6secs of timelapse per hour.

[r.morales]

Anyone know if you can take time lapse of flower upening with an XTI ? What do you need to do it ?