Over the past few months I have become intrigued by time lapse photography. In an effort to produce my own I used my Video Camera which has an Intervalometer function and was able to produce the below result from my balcony, but I was far from happy.
The video camera has a 1.2megapixel camera mode and as with all video cameras the night time capability is almost useless. I really wanted to get my Sony DSC R1 into the game which has the ability to take perfect photos day and night. Unfortunately it doesn’t have an intervalometer function.
No problem, just buy one…. turns out Sony don’t make them for my camera, I did find one 3rd party option in Germany but they are not produced anymore and all requests to Photography Forums turned up nothing.
After all my attempts to purchase an intervalometer failed I decided I would build one, how hard could it be right…. a simple timer switch to close relay contacts all plugged into the cameras accessory port. Yeah Right!
As it turns out the accessory port is a Sony Proprietary serial port and I needed to send special codes….. pffff… not a chance. Good news is I have a remote shutter release that obviously sends the correct serial port commands. OK, disassemble the remote control, hot wire in an external jack to the press botton, put it all back together and were away. I ordered a fancy 3rd Party Intervalometer from ebay with control over interval time and number of shots. Hopefully within a couple of weeks I will have some early results that will exceed anything I have created so far.
This post is tagged intervalometer, shinjuku, time lapse photography, timer remote
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