Using a Kitchen Timer To Create Panning Timelapse Movies
Oct 14, 2010
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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We have had a post before where we shoed how to use a canon G9 camera and a bunch of opensource photography software (mainly CHDK) to create amazing timelapse movies.
This time we are taking it up a notch and adding some movment to the movie. The idea is simple, using a mechanical kitchen timer (I used a fancier one :) and a bolt we created a rotating camera. Movie with tutorial and samples after the jump.
Since I as still living in a construction site, I took a a few quick test pans of the workers (well, quick to the extent that they were about 15-30 minutes long)
I used a G9 for this, but apparently the newer G11 is also supported by CHDK (as well as a bunch of other point and shoots).
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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Check my video here too. It’s a timelapse DIY panning kitchen timer:
http://youtu.be/8Q_XI7m10so