I’ve sort of abandoned the Coolpix option now and I’m getting another circuit made using my D70 instead. But I have got the box, solar panel post and everything else up in the garden testing its stability, waterproofing etc. I’m quite pleased with that side of things and will post some pictures later. I was thinking I could use the Coolpix for the crazy garden 4 dimensional time warp thing. On the subject of which
I saw Life on Monday and they did pretty much the same thing in an oak wood – it’s worth looking at their site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d6#p005hh0y
It’s worth a look – scroll down to the bottom it’s chapter 11 Life on Location – Time Warp.
They obviously had to make it look really pretty (that’s the problem when you let graphic designers get involved it all has to look …nice) so they did a tracking shot to get a background, then built a full size model in a blue room with the growing plants indoors in controlled lighting conditions and digitally projected the background on and built up the timelapse images as layers. It shows that it can be done, but the results if it is done completely in the field will be a bit crap. But more real surely! Anyway I want to have a go once I get this one up and running.
I’ve just realise that I might have a major problem with the D70 after all and it might not work anyway – I have tested it by turning it on and off at 10 min intervals and it retains the IR remote setting when turned on and off. The question is will it do this after a night of being turned off – I think the answer is probably not! I have emailed Nikon's reliably slow support site, but i think I will need to try it out before I continue. In which case it will be back to the coolpix and dashing back and forth to Ali's field twice a week for a year. Not sure my marriage will survive that. Hmph. I might need to actually buy another camera! Or use my prized D200, which i am really not happy about.
I saw Life on Monday and they did pretty much the same thing in an oak wood – it’s worth looking at their site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d6#p005hh0y
It’s worth a look – scroll down to the bottom it’s chapter 11 Life on Location – Time Warp.
They obviously had to make it look really pretty (that’s the problem when you let graphic designers get involved it all has to look …nice) so they did a tracking shot to get a background, then built a full size model in a blue room with the growing plants indoors in controlled lighting conditions and digitally projected the background on and built up the timelapse images as layers. It shows that it can be done, but the results if it is done completely in the field will be a bit crap. But more real surely! Anyway I want to have a go once I get this one up and running.
I’ve just realise that I might have a major problem with the D70 after all and it might not work anyway – I have tested it by turning it on and off at 10 min intervals and it retains the IR remote setting when turned on and off. The question is will it do this after a night of being turned off – I think the answer is probably not! I have emailed Nikon's reliably slow support site, but i think I will need to try it out before I continue. In which case it will be back to the coolpix and dashing back and forth to Ali's field twice a week for a year. Not sure my marriage will survive that. Hmph. I might need to actually buy another camera! Or use my prized D200, which i am really not happy about.
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