Always wanted to muck around with this, but never got around to trying it. My camera (D70) doesn’t have an interval timer, but Nikon Capture makes it so easy!
- Stick the camera on a tripod and aim it at whatever you like.
- Connect the USB cable, making sure the camera is in PTP mode, not mass storage.
- Fire up Capture Camera Control.
- Select “Time lapse” from the menu, set your options, and away you go!
I used an interval of fifteen seconds, and just let it run while I was busy doing stuff around the back yard. I ended up with 448 shots, a span of almost two hours. Because I was planning to turn this into video anyway, I used the smallest jpeg setting the camera supports, which gave me a frame size of 1504 x 1000.
Next, I fired up my trusty copy of Studio. After first setting the default length of a new slide to one frame (the software default is four seconds) I dragged all 448 shots onto the timeline. Add some cheesy SmartSound for background music, and we’re away!
Here’s the results… it’s the old cliche of rapid cloud movement, but I like it anyway!