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My school is on rebuilding works, maybe for more than 6 months, with the demolition of two buildings and construction of two new ones. The Timelapse Project consists on taking 8 photos each day from 3 points of view (with different schedules according to sun direction), for maximum periods of two hours, during the time of the rebuilding works. Later I’ll decide how many files will be used according to the rhythm of the movie. I think that 8 photos a day will give enough room to choose. It’s now runing since 15 June.
It had quite a stressful start, with less than two weeks to build the project and all the mounts, buying camera, tests, etc, together with the end of the school year with final evaluation activities and teacher reunion’s, etc, etc (you can imagine the picture).
Ricoh cameras are well known for interval shooting, and G600 would be perfect (even better with a 24mm…). But we could only find the R8 available, so it wasn’t really a “choice”. It’s a good camera for the job, and because all the points are outdoors we had to buy a sealed bag (for rain and dust too).
The budget was very short, so I’ve had to find and build the mounts with the less expensive materials, and some available at the school too. It was a bit of DIY together with the “well known” Portuguese “desenrascanço”:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desenrascan%C3%A7o
So we have three Cullmann Alpha 1000 head’s mounted on a window and two balconys. The same socket for three mounts gives the possibility to place the camera on each one in the same position with no angle variations (hopefully not perceptible in the movie)
The head:
On a window structure:
On a balcony:
On another balcony:
You can see the thermic isolating bag placed on the last one. Each of them has one and we’ll hope that it might be enough to prevent temperature variations, dust and UV degradation. I’m now building three shades to place on the top, to prevent sun and direct rain on the camera.
Another thing to consider is the team for this project. Especially during August, when everybody must take vacations… we’ll have a short number of people working, and most of them never worked with a camera at all… so I wrote a manual for this specific project, and I’m teaching people (teachers and non teachers) to work with all the procedures involved.
Considering all this, I’ll need some fingers crossing from my friends ;-)
BTW, I have to thank for the help from some people from the foruns, especialy to Martin Stevak and JJ.
I’ll update with some more images once in a while, and I hope to have a permission to publish the movie in the end.
(this post is duplicated in dpreview ricoh talk forum)
It had quite a stressful start, with less than two weeks to build the project and all the mounts, buying camera, tests, etc, together with the end of the school year with final evaluation activities and teacher reunion’s, etc, etc (you can imagine the picture).
Ricoh cameras are well known for interval shooting, and G600 would be perfect (even better with a 24mm…). But we could only find the R8 available, so it wasn’t really a “choice”. It’s a good camera for the job, and because all the points are outdoors we had to buy a sealed bag (for rain and dust too).
The budget was very short, so I’ve had to find and build the mounts with the less expensive materials, and some available at the school too. It was a bit of DIY together with the “well known” Portuguese “desenrascanço”:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desenrascan%C3%A7o
So we have three Cullmann Alpha 1000 head’s mounted on a window and two balconys. The same socket for three mounts gives the possibility to place the camera on each one in the same position with no angle variations (hopefully not perceptible in the movie)
The head:
On a window structure:
On a balcony:
On another balcony:
You can see the thermic isolating bag placed on the last one. Each of them has one and we’ll hope that it might be enough to prevent temperature variations, dust and UV degradation. I’m now building three shades to place on the top, to prevent sun and direct rain on the camera.
Another thing to consider is the team for this project. Especially during August, when everybody must take vacations… we’ll have a short number of people working, and most of them never worked with a camera at all… so I wrote a manual for this specific project, and I’m teaching people (teachers and non teachers) to work with all the procedures involved.
Considering all this, I’ll need some fingers crossing from my friends ;-)
BTW, I have to thank for the help from some people from the foruns, especialy to Martin Stevak and JJ.
I’ll update with some more images once in a while, and I hope to have a permission to publish the movie in the end.
(this post is duplicated in dpreview ricoh talk forum)
