Re: time lapse photography
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: time lapse photography
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:34:26 EDT
In a message dated 8/9/99 9:44:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Scott_Armstrong@LNOTES5.bankofny.com writes:
> Anybody ever do any time lapse photography on a growing pumpkin? I know it
> would be alot of work, and i certaintly don't have the resources, but i
> think it would be kind of neat. Like what you'd see on the discovery
> channel.
>
> scott
>
Scott! I wanted to do this this year!!!! Actually, a step further. I wanted
to set up a Pumpkin-Cam, that would take a snapshot every minute or so and
serve it up on a web page! So everyone could watch my pumpkins grow, AND then
I could piece together about one frame per hour for the whole growing season,
which would equal about a second of footage a day, which would result in
about a 2 minute clip (120 days) of watching a pumpkin grow from seedling to
huge fruit!
The cameras only cost about $100 or so, too, but I never got it all set up.
plus my dad probably wouldn't let me leave his laptop out in the patch all
season. The laptop with cellular modem would be needed to collect and
transmit all of the info up to the web server, (as well as all sorts of other
info like soil temp, air speed, humidity, electrical status of the air,
temperature, etc.). I do use Doppler radar to track storm activity around the
patch area, so I can see when I have to rush out to protect the plants, etc.
It works REALLY good. I can predict any rainfall or storm activity in the
patch area to within 4 minutes or so.
I have all sorts of movie making stuff (I even built my own optical printer,
etc) so normally I would have thought about using my movie camera for time
lapse photography, but it is so much easier digitally now, obviously!
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