How do I do time lapse K5ii
The camera will fire the shots as per whatever settings you had made prior to activating interval shooting' .... So for example, M exposure mode with f5.6 and 30 seconds time value should give reasonable results with a starry sky, at ISO 100. Time value is limited to a maximum of 30 seconds though, so if its not bright enough then you'd need to try a wider aperture ... You might increase ISO a little bit , but I wouldn't go beyond 800 with a night sky even on a K5.
You won't need a remote as the shots are fired automatically. Focus should be set manually and left untouched during the whole sequence.
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Thank you both for question AND answer
- Use manual exposure and expose for antipated extremes of exposure.
- Use manual focus.
- Set manual white balance (I always forget this).
- Use JPG mode (if you don't want to cope with Gbytes of images).
- Remember to switch of shake reduction as you are on a tripod.
I have been using Sony Vegas to convert my images into a movie sequence, but I am sure there are many lighter weight programmes if you don't need to edit. the movie. There can be quite a few subtleties as to how images are converted to movie (e.g. sharp transition between frames or fade between images).
I find selecting the injterval rate of images is something I am not on top of yet. Do you want the final result to be a speeded up smooth video, or a sequence of image jumps? Lots of opportunity for fun.
Have you checked out http://stargazerslounge.com ? I would expect lots of useful information about astrophotography there.
Looking forward to seeing your results, it can be a pretty fun activity.
Make sure you have something to batch edit a lot of shots afterwards, so you can apply any changes to all quickly.
As mentioned above, a movie is 2MP frames at full HD, so you might want to consider shooting smaller files than you normally would for stills work. Technically though you can make a 4k movie (~8MP still image size) this way if you were so inclined and had the editing software to allow a file of this size to be output.
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8 posts
9 years
abergavenny
After how helpful this forum was with lens advice I have another in for you.
I'll remind you that I'm new to this
I would love to capture the night sky and as I live in the middle of wales we have some brilliant dark clean skies.
I have the Pentax K5ii and a 10-20 mm wide angle lens.
I have a tripod
I have no remote.
Thank you all