fukur
7th of March 2003 (Fri), 16:27
I'm capturing time lapse sequences using my S30 and G2Remote. It seems there's a limit on how short the interval between pictures can be. Which itself is understandable, but the shortest possible interval is far too long for my purpose (~5 sec with occasional hiccups, 10 sec. to be stable enough).
I thought this was due to the downloading time from camera to computer, but even if I store the pictures only onto the CF card, it doesn't get any faster.
I also tried different image resolutions/compression, but I didn't observe any difference between 1024x768 and 1600x1200 at "fine" quality (I did not experimen with lower size/quality, as I wouldn't want those configurations for my purpose anyways).
The S30 manual says it can take a few pictures per second in continuous mode, but looks like I can't shoot in this mode when it's controlled from the computer.
I have the exact same problem with D60, by the way.
So my question is, what is the shortest possible interval between pictures in time-lapse shooting, theoretically or empirically? Or perhaps what I need is a fancier, more specialized camera?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I thought this was due to the downloading time from camera to computer, but even if I store the pictures only onto the CF card, it doesn't get any faster.
I also tried different image resolutions/compression, but I didn't observe any difference between 1024x768 and 1600x1200 at "fine" quality (I did not experimen with lower size/quality, as I wouldn't want those configurations for my purpose anyways).
The S30 manual says it can take a few pictures per second in continuous mode, but looks like I can't shoot in this mode when it's controlled from the computer.
I have the exact same problem with D60, by the way.
So my question is, what is the shortest possible interval between pictures in time-lapse shooting, theoretically or empirically? Or perhaps what I need is a fancier, more specialized camera?
Any advice would be much appreciated.