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Registered Member #505
Joined: Sun Nov 19 2006, 06:42PM
Location: Yorkshire!
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I'm going to be doing the 190 mile Coast to Coast walk sometime this year and I thought it would be a fun challenge to make a time lapse video of the route in a kind of "london to brighton in four minutes" style.
Issues for consideration
* Camera location: head, chest, rucksack? * Technology: webcam, video camera, compact camera, time lapse controller? * Environment: most likely wet so some waterproofing required, motion blur whilst walking? * Cost: cheap for preference? * Method: automatic time period (adjustable), manual trigger options (useful for capturing panoramas), low resolution video of entire route? * Interval: interval of captures, image size, memory requirements? * Software: how to stitch all the images together in a movie? * Route length: 190 miles over 11 or 12 days, approx @ 6-7 hours a day walking = about 80 hours of walking.
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
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VrirtualDub can create a movie out of the pictures so that part is simple and easy.
It would be good if you went for pretty high resolution and a wide angle so it is possible to align the pictures by software making sure the resulting movie will not jump all over the place and be unwatchable.
If you mount the camera on your head the resulting film mightl be very jittery unless your neck is not welded stiff because you are likely to look around. It could be fixed by taking more pictures than needed and remove the useless ones from the film.
You can have a look at this tiny camera: It is quite nifty but the image quality is not great. The best option is probably a compact camera with an external battery pack.
Do some experiments with your current camera, go for a walk and take one picture every 30 seconds and use virtualdub to make a movie. You will learn more from that than any amount of thinking.
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Joined: Fri Jan 25 2008, 05:22AM
Location: Maryland, USA
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Bjørn wrote ...
VrirtualDub can create a movie out of the pictures so that part is simple and easy.
It would be good if you went for pretty high resolution and a wide angle so it is possible to align the pictures by software making sure the resulting movie will not jump all over the place and be unwatchable.
If you mount the camera on your head the resulting film mightl be very jittery unless your neck is not welded stiff because you are likely to look around. It could be fixed by taking more pictures than needed and remove the useless ones from the film.
You can have a look at this tiny camera: It is quite nifty but the image quality is not great. The best option is probably a compact camera with an external battery pack.
Do some experiments with your current camera, go for a walk and take one picture every 30 seconds and use virtualdub to make a movie. You will learn more from that than any amount of thinking.
In fact I just used virtualdub last week to create a time lapse of 40 hours of snowfall. It came out very well. Been meaning it upload it to youtube.
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Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
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If the time when shots are taken is preset/fixed then I would body-mount the camera, if you know when a shot is due I'd put it on my head because; - you can aim easily/accurately - it's the most stable platform (e.g. to aim a laser-pointer very steadily press it against the side of your head)
IF you take a photo in the reverse direction at each point, you could have a video of the 'return' journey too.
The main problem as I see it is time, to have the video not too jerky I GUESS you'd need a photo every 100 yards or so, 900 miles / 100 yards = 15840 photo's @ 30 fps that's nearly nine minutes of 'video' and if 1 MB/photo that's 16 GB.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
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I did some several-night backpacking about this time last year, full kit (camping). After the first 10 miles, you won't care about this thing any more until after the trip - so I'd recommend making it as 'out the way' as possible. Definitely not head mount, or chest. I would probably go for something like as small a camera as possible, firmly mounted on your rucksack strap near your shoulder. It would have to be automated too. If it 'gets in the way' during the expedition, or becomes any kind of burden whatsoever, I guarantee you will abandon it on the second day!!
Hardware wise, depending upon frame rate, you would want to either power the camera on and off between each pic, or leave it on all the time. If you're leaving it on, obviously you'd need to turn the LCD backlight off, and in either case the thing would need to be powered from probably a Li-ion pack in a side pocket. Probably make sense to not have a zoom lens. Some kind of PIC setup could take care of triggering the shutter. Make sure the thing is quiet, focusing noise and shutter bleeps will drive you nuts for several weeks afterwards
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Time Lapse Photography Whilst Walking
