Interesting Tech Projects
Manual Focus on the Canon A480
The Canon A480 doesn’t have manual focus of course, but by adding CHDK it does! At first the feature appears to be broken, so here is a short video demonstrating how it works. It’s called Subject Distance Override and to turn it on in record mode press Mode then up (ISO).
It’s amazing how Pinnacle Studio and it’s Dazzle interface can take a nice clean input and make it look like an old VHS tape…
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Driffield Train Time Lapse
about 13 years ago - Comments Off on Driffield Train Time Lapse
A five second video I made today from the footbridge of a Hull to Bridlington train stopping at the station in Driffield. As the train arrives in the station you can see the level crossing barriers behind it go up and traffic resume. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Forest Fire Time Lapse
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Here is another time lapse, this time of a five acre forest fire on the mountain range outside of Tucson. The fire is about 10 miles away. The time lapse was created using 10MP images with the camera at full 3x optical zoom. The images were then cropped to 1920 x 1080 to create a…
Tucson to Phoenix in Less Than Three Minutes
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Another time lapse, this time of a trip I took yesterday. Created using a Canon A480 and CHDK. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Storms Time Lapse
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Here is another time lapse of storms building over the Santa Catalina mountains. The black specks that keep appearing are birds going to and from our bird feeders. It was generated with 3750 pictures taken two seconds apart using CHDK. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Yorkshire Pudding Time Lapse
about 14 years ago - 1 comment
Here is another one – it’s a strange angle because I needed to keep the oven light out of direct view of the camera. Total time elapsed was 20 minutes. Compressed to 33 seconds. Generated using a Canon A480 and CHDK. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Tucson to Mount Bigelow Time Lapse
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Last weekend we took a drive from Tucson to the top of Mount Bigelow, which is home to TV and radio antennas. Some stats: Driving time – 55 minutes Distance – 31 miles Altitude gain – 5,500 feet Temperature drop – 29 degrees Fahrenheit Pictures taken – 1,219 Some things to look for: Overexposure in…
The Big Dipper / Plough
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A total of 105 exposures at 30 seconds each, ISO 400. Canon A480 running CHDK. No in-camera noise reduction. Four dark frames. It took just over an hour to take the pictures. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Astrophotography and CHDK
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CHDK is an alternative firmware for many Canon cameras, particularly point and shoot and I previously wrote about it here. One of the nice features is the ability to take continuous pictures for long periods, which makes taking photographs of the night sky possible with a low cost camera. Here are my first experiments to…
CHDK and Canon A480 Quick Start Guide
about 14 years ago - 54 comments
CHDK is an alternative firmware for some Canon cameras. It provides access to lots of cool features that are found only on high end SLR cameras, plus some features that are not found anywhere. Why the Canon A480? Because refurbished cameras are available for $75 from Adorama with a one year warranty and only one…
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about 13 years ago
But how can i take pictures when i´ve manual focused??
When i press the shutter there stands: ” This is a default script , scripts run, when shutter is pressed in “alt” mode, press shutter to exit”…
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