OT taking a pic every 10 minutes

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Peter Fox wrote:

One thing, if you're doing timelapse you'll need to find a good way to
stabilize the camera. Putting it on your head /may/ be a good idea /or
possibly/ hard mounted. The problem is the large amount of jitter
between frames.

You can do a certain amount with post-processing, though, at least in
principle. Match subsequent frames up against each other to determine and
thus remove the jitter. I don't think this is even all that difficult to
do, although it could be fairly computationally expensive. Are there
existing tools to do this?

Seems like you can do it, with quite a lot of manual faffing about, in
Avid:

http://www2.softimage.com/ds/tutoria..._jitter_V5.pdf

tom

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In article , Rob Morley wrote:
In article bc894a38-c8ff-4d9f-a17e-98927d77b310@
2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com, Richard Fairhurst
says...
On Feb 28, 8:18*am, Rob Morley wrote:
Would it be too obvious to suggest a digital stills camera? *You won't
be able to produce a time-lapse movie effect anyway. *If you want a
watchable slide show you're really going to have to stop and take
pictures that are worth looking at, and record the GPS data at each one.

Any hand-held (or handlebar-mounted) GPS worth its salt will
automatically record your "tracklog" at intervals from 1pt/sec
upwards, so you don't need to expressly record positions.

Don't they have the facility to record at the touch of a button?

Depends on the device, but if you have one that records all the time
to don't have to remember to press a button on that as well as on the
camera. Or you could use a camera with built-in GPS:
http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2...igital_cam.php
(or a GPS with a builtin camera:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1945433,00.asp)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocode...ra_geoco ding

On Feb 28, 6:54 pm, Roger Thorpe
wrote:
cleaning, sleeping......

You have a cat sized vacuum cleaner?!


Graeme

Alan Braggins wrote:
In article , Rob Morley wrote:
In article bc894a38-c8ff-4d9f-a17e-98927d77b310@
2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com, Richard Fairhurst
says...
On Feb 28, 8:18am, Rob Morley wrote:

Would it be too obvious to suggest a digital stills camera? You won't
be able to produce a time-lapse movie effect anyway. If you want a
watchable slide show you're really going to have to stop and take
pictures that are worth looking at, and record the GPS data at each one.

Any hand-held (or handlebar-mounted) GPS worth its salt will
automatically record your "tracklog" at intervals from 1pt/sec
upwards, so you don't need to expressly record positions.

Don't they have the facility to record at the touch of a button?

Depends on the device, but if you have one that records all the time
to don't have to remember to press a button on that as well as on the
camera. Or you could use a camera with built-in GPS:
http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2...igital_cam.php
(or a GPS with a builtin camera:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1945433,00.asp)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocode...ra_geoco ding

Or since digital photographs are so cheap you could simply photograph
the GPS each time you photographed something else.

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