[Lab] time lapse photography

[Darcy Whyte]

Those videos are nice.

Cannon probably has it on their more advanced cameras but I'm much too cheap
for that. :) But if you run CHDK on their point and shoot, apparently you
get all these miles of features. I think it would be cool to have a camera
shoot every 5 seconds or so but only triggered by motion. Once you have
CHKD, the camera has face detection. It would be cool to have it take a few
frames every time it sees a smile.

Actually, I have a dSLR on my todo list. That's a separate project. No rush,
will probably take me a month or two to get to it as this CHDK will probably
suck back some time for a while. :)

What command did you use with ffmpeg?

I went to a directory of pictures and did

ffmpeg -f image2 -i *.JPG video.mpg

it ran for a while then said "Segmentation fault". video.mpg existed but was
zero length.

Should I have shrunk these pictures (from 12Meg camera)? They're like 2 or 4
megs each.

Is there a better command?




On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at tricolour.net>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:42:06AM -0500, Darcy Whyte wrote:
> > I now of a camera that is running CHDK. (
> > http://mambohead.com/2010/12/time-lapse-photography-and-chdk/)
> >
> >
> > If anybody want's to hack around with it, let me know. I'd like to try
> some
> > stop motion while I'm at it. I wonder if having the camera shoot at
> regular
> > intervals is a good way to do simple stop motion.
>
> Apparently the Nikon DSLRs have an interval timer, but Canon is behind
> on this one...  An external shutter release can fix this.
>
>
> I'm not using anything hacked to generate these.  I just set up the
> camera on a tripod with a wired or wireless cable release and made it
> available for anyone to trigger.  One was dinner christmas eve, another
> two were photo booths I set up at parties:
>        http://tricolour.net/photos/2010/12/24/19-05-03i1.mjpg.html
>        http://tricolour.net/photos/2010/12/27/photo_booth.mjpg.html
>
> I then used ffmpeg to assemble a series of .jpg files into a .mp4
>
>
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