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Bruno: “Hi, back in 2012, you shared some of my early attempts at time-lapse astro-photography with an E-P3. Since then, I’ve added a few lens to my collection and been very busy taking more photos and have recently released two major time-lapses on youtube, both in 1080p. All the Images were taken at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland during my various visits to the mountain top over the last three years. Over 100 GB of raw images were collected, 8000 individual frames.
Sutherland by Night, volume 4: “Clear Nights”, freshly released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PmhzK9JJc
Sutherland by Night, volume 3: “Cloudy Nights”, released earlier this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsFfxq-t14k
Enjoy!“
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Wow great work Bruno! Not a fan of the music though, you should maybe have went with electronic retro futuristic sounds instead 🙂 I should try this some day.This will shorten the life of your cam correct?
If you have an electronic shutter, you don’t have to be afraid about taking huge amounts of images for time-laps videos. 8000 Images might take 5%-10% of the lifetime of the mechanical shutter in a consumer cam.
I did some tests with the GH3 and it’s much better to take the images noise-less. The only thing, you can hear is the aperture which gets open between the shots all the time. I would like to have a switch to keep the aperture in working position for this.
Some of the sequences were made with a borrowed EPL5 at ISO 6400, compared to my usual setup, EP3 at ISO 1600. Never tried with a Panasonic but I would be curious to see how it performs. I noticed the EPL5, while much better at higher ISO, seems to have a very different colour signature, more “pink” than the usual “brown” of the EP3. Also, the EPL5 seems to be less stable in colour rendering one image after the other, something I never noticed on the EP3.
But I can’t wait to upgrade to a more recent sensor, be it Olympus or Panasonic. It seems like the technology has improved quite a lot since the generation 1 m43 sensors. Having an EM1 would simplify my setup considerably and improve image quality too, so would the GH4 I’m sure.
You are correct ED, it will shorten the life of my camera. I’ve owned it for more than 3 years now, it probably has more than 50k shutter actuation by now. It will be a glorious death when the shutter finally gives up, and time for me to get a newer body, EM1-mk2 most likely, for the live exposure mode, weather sealing and built-in wifi / timelapse mode.
Music: it is the hardest thing for me to find when making a video, when you restrict yourself to royalty-free music. I listened to hundreds of songs like that and settled on those that were the least annoying 🙂 I can’t risk putting better non-free music and having my youtube account suspended, they are serious over there! My knowledge of the online video making scene is very limited, maybe there are better ways. I still have lots to learn in this hobby, especially in image post-processing.