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If you render your finished video at a fairly standard 24 frames per second, this will result in a maximum duration of about 60 seconds for a single video sequence.

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I have found that I can take about 1500 pictures or so with one full battery charge.

Unless you have a power supply connected to your camera, the number of pictures it can take will be limited by how long the battery lasts.

However, for sunrise or sunset time lapse not quite so well, because as the camera adjust for light levels, the impression of increasing/decreasing light levels are somewhat lost. For weather time-lapse I have found that automatic camera operation works quite well.

Depending on what you are shooting, you may or may not want to let the camera automatically adjust to light changes.

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Make sure you focus the camera before you start the shooting (for example by half-pressing the shutter button), then set it to manual focus. For my first effort I left it on, and the picture jumped in size a lot – not a good result. The camera’s auto-focus control cause the picture frame size to change by small amounts.Later I bought a separate battery-controlled timer device which plugs into the camera and is a much more lightweight solution (shown in photo above). I used this initially, and it worked well enough, although it requires you to keep your computer running the entire time of the shoot.

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The shutter timer control must be automatic or by remote control, as touching or adjusting the camera during shooting will inevitably move the framing and cause jittery movements in the final video. The camera came with software which allows this to be done by connecting the camera to your computer by USB cable, and then setting up the utility software to take shots at the required interval.

That can be frustrating if you’ve spent several hours recording before you see it.

Again, on my first efforts I noticed some reflections which only became apparent when watching the playback. Cover or block or reduce all other light sources in the room if at all possible. If filming through a window, minimise all possible reflections.

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After my first couple of efforts I noticed some blotches on the movie which were only visible when watching the playback – they weren’t at all apparent until there was coud movement happening behind it.

If filming through a window, make sure the glass is clean, and keep the camera as close as possible to the glass.

The camera must not move during the filming, which may last several hours of more. I use a tripod to do this – and take care not to move or knock it after the photo shoot has started.

Rather, what you have to do is to take a series of timed individual photos, and only after the whole sequence has been taken do you perform the final steps to assemble to individual shots into a movie using software on your computer. Although this camera is able to take HD video footage, creating time-lapse videos does not involve using it in video camera mode. It obviously helps to have a technical bent to start with. However, there are many factors involved in making such a movie, and it requires not just the right equipment, but also quite of lot of attention to detail. I recommend that you view at maximum resolution possible (720p). Here is an example that I uploaded to Youtube. Having a fascination with weather, I have always enjoyed seeing time-lapse movies of the sky, and having recently acquired a camera capable of doing this, I jumped in and started making some myself.