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Portable Digital Timelapse Photography?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-your-own-slo-mo dept.

Bakajin asks: "The posting about the camera speedometer hack reminded me of my interest in portable time lapse photography. I wondered if the astute Slashdot crowd can make some suggestions for a very portable digital time-lapse system. I was initially thinking about a PDA connected to a small web-camera. I'll hack my own code if I have to, but I'd prefer to have something off the shelf or not involving too much work. Any suggestions on the PDA/camera/software combo or any different system?"

2 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. Handspring + eyemodule by Pathwalker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Go for a Handspring Visor, and an EyeModule or an EyeModule 2.

    They both include a nice time lapse feature, which keeps the pda powered down as much as possible to avoid draining the battery.

  2. Try the Minolta Dimage 7 by pwagland · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Try looking at the Dimage 5/7/7i from Minolta. I have the 7 and it does time lapse photography. You can set it to do 1 photo a minute up to 1 photo an hour (from memory, I don't have the manual here...) and you can take as many photos as fit into your compact flash...which with a 1Gb microdrive is a lot, even at 2500*2000(rougly 500 images). At 640*480 it just goes into the realms of stupid....

    Cheers, Paul