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
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on Forest Fire Time Lapse
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…
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on Tucson to Phoenix in Less Than Three Minutes
Another time lapse, this time of a trip I took yesterday. Created using a Canon A480 and CHDK. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on Storms Time Lapse
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
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on Tucson to Mount Bigelow Time Lapse
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…
about 14 years ago - 1 comment
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…
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on The Big Dipper / Plough
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
about 14 years ago - Comments Off on Astrophotography and CHDK
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…
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…
about 14 years ago
Brilliant!!