Saturday 13 September 2014

More Lapsed Clouds

As the Apple cameras are such wide angle I decided to order a 2x add on telephoto lens. It arrived yesterday. The lens is magnetic so if the phone body is made from a  suitable metal it will stick in place. If the body is another material then self adhesive metal rings are provided. That is what I had to use with the iPod:

2x telephoto lens DSCN3387

Being magnetic it is fast and easy to attach / detach.

I set things up with the Lapse It app set to take a photo every 3 seconds. Just over an hour and 1475 frames later it was showing a low battery warning. Those were saved at 1080p, transferred to the MacBook. Title added in iMovie along with a soundtrack created with Garage Band and saved at 720p to cut down upload file size:



Not too bad for a £5 add on lens, and that included p&p!

In the evening I set things up on a tabletop tripod in the conservatory for a Sunset time lapse, this time with just 2 seconds between frames.  No other processing this time. 720p as processed by the Lapse It app. The small orange dot which remains isn't a stuck pixel but a street lamp in the distance:



Once again this was processed in app using 'vivid colours'.

4 comments:

  1. These are much better.

    A funny aside. When the videos had finished The YouTube suggested viewings showed Compositing using Fusion. I dread to think what Fusion costs.

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  2. The stability of the images is amazing and the exposure is good throughout both videos. Well done, John.

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  3. These videos are really good! I have used the Lapse It but only once. I use my iPhone if I don't have my camera but the only problem is the fact that the zoom isn't that good so I might look at getting a similar lens (I didn't even know you could get them!).

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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