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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?"

3 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. PhotoPC by Bryan+Andersen · · Score: 3, Informative

    The PhotoPC project has both Linux and Windows support and deals with cameras via serial or USB. It is designed with command line options so it should be easier to hack into a PDA setting. I've done some hacking, but I'm not happy with my results yet. I also want to do computer controlled digital time lapse photography. I've dome alot by hand, but one misses the timing every so often.

  3. 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