| My Galleries: | 2010 | Ricoh Caplio GX100 (updated: 12 May 2010) |
| 2010 special - timelapse movies from a trip to the U.S.A. (Colorado, Utah), Ricoh GX100 (updated: 28 July 2010) | ||
| 2009 | Ricoh Caplio GX100 | |
| 2008 | Ricoh Caplio GX100 | |
| 2007 | Kodak EasyShare P880 | |
| 2006 | Kodak EasyShare P880 | |
| 2005 | Creative Webcam Live Ultra | |
| ... what doesn't fit elsewhere |
Copyright info: All the time-lapse movies shown above are free for personal and educational purposes only. For any commercial use please contact the author.
For a seamless playback of the movie files which you will find at the galleries above, I recommend to download and save the individual movie files to your computer first, and open them for viewing locally, after the download has completed.
As the time went by, I have been trying various video encoders and formats. Almost all the cases here are stored in the standard MPEG-1 format (.mpg files), which should be fully compatible with all the platforms and video players, and which should pose no problems even to the older or weaker computers. Beginning with 2007, the movie files are stored also in the H.264/QuickTime (.mov files) format, and since mid-2008 in the H.264/MPEG-4 format (.mp4 files). The .mp4 and .mov files provide better quality as compared to the .mpg files, but require somewhat stronger computers (~ 1.4 GHz processor or better).
If you happen to fail playing these movie files with your installed movie player smoothly (or if you are not able to play them at all), I recommend trying the Media Player Classic, together with one of these codec packs, XP Codec Pack or K-Lite Codec Pack. In case of persisting problems with .mov files, try QuickTime Alternative. All of this is freeware. If you use Windows 7, you should be able to play all of these formats without any problem.
"Speed" information (beginning with 2007) indicates how much faster you are viewing these movies as compared to "natural" speed of the sequence. Technically speaking, this is a product of time lapse interval used when shooting the sequence, and frame rate of the video (each time lapse image shown as one video frame).
Other:
Introduction to
time-lapse photography (updated:
2009-11-21)
Time-lapse
photography with Ricoh cameras (various tips for optimal setting of the Ricoh cameras,
updated 2009-11-07)
Remote control of the Ricoh
cameras (added:
2009-11-07)
Conversion of
time-lapse sequences of still images to movie files (step by
step guide, freeware solutions)
Links to other time-lapse related sites and galleries (updated: 2008-10-05)
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