"Tx2" wrote in message
T...

we have a massive new building development going into our college, and i
would like to film it in timelapse.

I am thus looking for a MiniDV camera that will allow me to achieve this
with simplicity and at relatively low cost (sub £1000)

Any ideas?
http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...timelapse.html
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indihttp:/...ies/index.html
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/d...apse_software/

Trev wrote:
"Tx2" wrote in message
T...

we have a massive new building development going into our college,
and i would like to film it in timelapse.

I am thus looking for a MiniDV camera that will allow me to achieve
this with simplicity and at relatively low cost (sub £1000)

Any ideas?
http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...timelapse.html
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indihttp:/...ies/index.html
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/d...apse_software/

The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the images (jpg
format), for example once per hour, and use a program to make an movie from
the pictures. By using a webcam it is easy to adjust the time-lapse speed
when making the final film. It is also easy to adjust single frames
(light/contrast/colour) to reduce flicker in the final film. If you use
Adobe premiere it is possible to adjust number of frames each jpg is used.
By adding Xfade between each jpg, the flicker is reduced and the film is
much better.
I have a webcam taking one frame per 24H (at noon). I use 5 frames per jpg
with Xfade between each. This makes one year into 1 min 15 sec film.
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AsleB;Oslo

Tx2 wrote:
|| On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
|| from the village of
|| felt we might be interested in the following...
||
||
||
||| The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
||| images (jpg format), for example once per hour
||
|| What software can i use to control the capture and set the intervals?
||
|| My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i
|| want to do, but not a time lapse facility.


I found little free programme which seems to work more quite well for both
timed still and movie capture, the only problem appears to be no choice
(only .bmp) of file types for saving the image.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/504585


||
|| TIA
||
||
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Ivan wrote:
|| Tx2 wrote:
|||| On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
|||| from the village of
|||| felt we might be interested in the following...
||||
||||
||||
||||| The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
||||| images (jpg format), for example once per hour
||||
|||| What software can i use to control the capture and set the
|||| intervals?
||||
|||| My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i
|||| want to do, but not a time lapse facility.
||
||
|| I found little free programme which seems to work more quite well
|| for both timed still and movie capture, the only problem appears to
|| be no choice (only .bmp) of file types for saving the image.
||
|| http://www.tucows.com/preview/504585
||
||

More info @ http://www.astraimagevideo.com/gallery.htm



||||
|||| TIA
||||
||||
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|||| My reply address is valid, but incoming mail is set to
|||| 'auto-delete' so will not be seen. Please post replies to the
|||| group.
|||| XPS M1710 / 2.16 GHz dual core / 2Gb DDR2 / nVidia GeForce 7950GTX

"Tx2" wrote in message
T...
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
from the village of
felt we might be interested in the following...



The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the images
(jpg
format), for example once per hour

What software can i use to control the capture and set the intervals?

My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i want to
do, but not a time lapse facility.

There's a lot of webcam software intended for home security -
some even has motion detection and will email you a pic when a
pre-determined amount of movement is detected.
A google for "webcam security" will come up with stuff like this:
http://www.digi-watcher.com/review.htm
Also, astronomers use webcams and have to use timed intervals
(I'm one!) so you could use something like QCfocus, but you'd
be better off with the webcam security software.
HTH
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Rob

Rob wrote:
|| "Tx2" wrote in message
|| T...
||| On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
||| from the village of
||| felt we might be interested in the following...
|||
|||
|||
|||| The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
|||| images (jpg
|||| format), for example once per hour
|||
||| What software can i use to control the capture and set the
||| intervals?
|||
||| My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i
||| want to do, but not a time lapse facility.
||
|| There's a lot of webcam software intended for home security -
|| some even has motion detection and will email you a pic when a
|| pre-determined amount of movement is detected.
|| A google for "webcam security" will come up with stuff like this:
|| http://www.digi-watcher.com/review.htm
|| Also, astronomers use webcams and have to use timed intervals
|| (I'm one!) so you could use something like QCfocus, but you'd
|| be better off with the webcam security software.
|| HTH


I wonder why most of this software only allows the image to be saved as a
..bmp without a choice of saving as a .jpg.

I have to admit that I'm not too up on these things technically, but the
resulting image I get from an image compressed down to even 50k on my
ancient 1.3mp Olympus digital camera is infinitely better than what I'm
capturing as a 300k .bmp using a cheap webcam or security camera... all very
disappointing.




|| --
|| Rob

"Ivan" wrote in message
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Rob wrote:
|| "Tx2" wrote in message
|| T...
||| On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
||| from the village of
||| felt we might be interested in the following...
|||
|||
|||
|||| The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
|||| images (jpg
|||| format), for example once per hour
|||
||| What software can i use to control the capture and set the
||| intervals?
|||
||| My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i
||| want to do, but not a time lapse facility.
||
|| There's a lot of webcam software intended for home security -
|| some even has motion detection and will email you a pic when a
|| pre-determined amount of movement is detected.
|| A google for "webcam security" will come up with stuff like this:
|| http://www.digi-watcher.com/review.htm
|| Also, astronomers use webcams and have to use timed intervals
|| (I'm one!) so you could use something like QCfocus, but you'd
|| be better off with the webcam security software.
|| HTH


I wonder why most of this software only allows the image to be saved as a
.bmp without a choice of saving as a .jpg.

I have to admit that I'm not too up on these things technically, but the
resulting image I get from an image compressed down to even 50k on my
ancient 1.3mp Olympus digital camera is infinitely better than what I'm
capturing as a 300k .bmp using a cheap webcam or security camera... all
very
disappointing.

It's all down to the software and quality of sensor in the webcam.
Most webcam security software will allow the native .bmp to be
compressed to the lossy jpeg format for transmission by email,
ftp'ing to a 'live' window on a website etc.

The Sony CCDs are the best for low-light, but most webcams only
have CMOS sensors. Unfortunately the OP's QC5000 can come with
either CMOS or CCD sensors, but probably CMOS in the UK.
The resolution of the sensor is the other thing - most are 640x480
pixels, so images will never look as good as from a digital camera.

The current webcam of choice for low-light is the Philips SPC-900,
which uses the excellent Sony ICX098BQ CCD sensor.

HTH,
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Rob

Rob wrote:
|| "Ivan" wrote in message
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|||
|||
||| Rob wrote:
||||| "Tx2" wrote in message
||||| T...
|||||| On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
|||||| from the village of
|||||| felt we might be interested in the following...
||||||
||||||
||||||
||||||| The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
||||||| images (jpg
||||||| format), for example once per hour
||||||
|||||| What software can i use to control the capture and set the
|||||| intervals?
||||||
|||||| My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i
|||||| want to do, but not a time lapse facility.
|||||
||||| There's a lot of webcam software intended for home security -
||||| some even has motion detection and will email you a pic when a
||||| pre-determined amount of movement is detected.
||||| A google for "webcam security" will come up with stuff like this:
||||| http://www.digi-watcher.com/review.htm
||||| Also, astronomers use webcams and have to use timed intervals
||||| (I'm one!) so you could use something like QCfocus, but you'd
||||| be better off with the webcam security software.
||||| HTH
|||
|||
||| I wonder why most of this software only allows the image to be
||| saved as a .bmp without a choice of saving as a .jpg.
|||
||| I have to admit that I'm not too up on these things technically,
||| but the resulting image I get from an image compressed down to even
||| 50k on my ancient 1.3mp Olympus digital camera is infinitely better
||| than what I'm capturing as a 300k .bmp using a cheap webcam or
||| security camera... all very
||| disappointing.
||
|| It's all down to the software and quality of sensor in the webcam.
|| Most webcam security software will allow the native .bmp to be
|| compressed to the lossy jpeg format for transmission by email,
|| ftp'ing to a 'live' window on a website etc.
||
|| The Sony CCDs are the best for low-light, but most webcams only
|| have CMOS sensors. Unfortunately the OP's QC5000 can come with
|| either CMOS or CCD sensors, but probably CMOS in the UK.
|| The resolution of the sensor is the other thing - most are 640x480
|| pixels, so images will never look as good as from a digital camera.
||
|| The current webcam of choice for low-light is the Philips SPC-900,
|| which uses the excellent Sony ICX098BQ CCD sensor.
||

I'm using a Philips SPC 300 camera, however its performance pales into
insignificance in comparison to my old Philips PCA645, which unfortunately I
can find absolutely no drivers for Windows 2000.

It delivers crystal clear pictures with drivers downloaded from Microsoft,
but unfortunately in daylight the resulting image is bright blue, due to the
fact that none of the set up menus for brightness, contrast, background or
gama are included along with the drivers.



|| HTH,
|| --
|| Rob

Tx2 wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:22 +0200 Asle Bjerva
from the village of
felt we might be interested in the following...



The cheapest and easy solution is to use a webcam, and save the
images (jpg format), for example once per hour

What software can i use to control the capture and set the intervals?

My Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 has good enough qaulity for what i want
to do, but not a time lapse facility.

TIA

This program can use any videosurce available on the computer.
http://www.tincam.com/
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AsleB;Oslo;Norway