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In-camera time lapse

In-camera time lapse

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In-camera time lapse

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- Just about any camera is able to capture not just still photos, but also video. But you might consider in some situations a little bit of a hybrid approach to video, and that is capturing a time lapse. Time lapse videos are essentially videos that roll very quickly, you might say. In other words, where the frame rate is a little bit less frequent than with video. Video is typically somewhere around 30 frames per second, for example. With a time lapse, you might capture just one frame a second, or even an interval that's greater than that. Here for example, I have some rowboats out underneath the bridge here. I've set up my camera, I've got it on a tripod here, and have my exposure established. And now, I'm going to go into my setup, in the menu within this camera, I actually have an interval timer feature, and so I will enable that interval timer, and then set the actual interval. So in this case, I'm going to use a one-second interval, meaning that one photo will be captured every…

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