From the course: Time-Lapse Video: Shooting with the Camera in Motion
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Flow-Mow for the GoPro
From the course: Time-Lapse Video: Shooting with the Camera in Motion
Flow-Mow for the GoPro
If you're a regular watcher of lynda.com titles, you've probably noticed that I love GoPro cameras. They're a lot of fun, I can get great shots, They're small, portable, easy to use. But one of the things I've always like about them is their built in time lapse. However, a stationary GoPro's not very interesting. Enter, a couple of different solutions. Essentially egg timers that spin and turn the camera slowly over time. I have two of them here. This first one here is called a flow-mow, and it rotates 360 degrees and takes two hours to spin backwards. This next one is the camalapse, and it's the same sort of idea except it takes an hour to turn those 360 degrees. These two units perform exactly the same way. Two units, different manufactures, the only big difference is that this one takes an hour to turn 360, and this one takes two hours. Now, what I like to do is mount these to something, like this gorilla pod. Makes it super easy to attach to any surface. I could hang this out a…
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