The ultimate "spray and pray" approach. I'm sure it's bound to get some nice shots. Obviously not for me; taking the shots is my hobby. I doubt it will supplant cell phone cameras, and most people are not going to want to go through all those shots. Could be a cult thing, I guess.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know what I really think of this: > http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/24/omg-life-creates-autographer-wearable-automatic-camera > but I saw it shortly after viewing this neat instructional video > http://cinematography-howto.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-time-lapse-video-with-dslr-and-intervalometer-269678/ > and it gave me an idea: > > It would be interesting to wear the Pentax Q around one's neck and > just have it set to take images with its built-in intervalometer while > walking around the streets or something (hands-off). People would > pretty much ignore a camera that doesn't have the wearer's hands on > it. This idea would work for any camera with a built-in intervalometer > (like the K-5) but it think it probably becomes a little more > problematic (in multiple ways) to handle the larger the camera in this > way. The built-in intervalometer can take up to 999 images, so you'd > have to do the math to determine how often to have it take a photo for > the length of time you wanted it to "run" (also your card capacity and > whether you were shooting JPEG or RAW/+). > > Another (related) idea would be to use this to create time-lapse video > from still shots. Imagine walking through a crowded rush hour city > sidewalk and into a cafe shooting this way at 1 image every 3 seconds. > That's 20 frames per minute and if you put that together (for example > in QuickTime Pro) at 20 fps you have a 1 minute of real life = 1 > second of your time-lapse video. 1 hour of real life = 1 minute of > time-lapse video. > > Think this is dumb or does it have merit? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
