Canon Rebel T1i / 500D NYC Timelapse

Timelapse of the Port Authority station near Times Square on the afternoon of 8/31/09. Taken with my Canon T1i using the EOS utility with 6 second intervals between shots.

The camera was using the default auto settings (but the flash was disabled and focus was locked) to adjust the exposure, and no post-processing other than resizing and movie encoding was done.

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• Canon Rebel T1i / 500D

[yoqi]

Is this timelapse feature built into the 500D? Is it saved as a movie or a series of pics? I should be getting a 500D soon - love to do stuff like this.

[toastjam]

I used the software that came with the camera (the EOS Utility) to control it via USB cable. It took individual shots every 6 seconds and saved them directly to my computer. I then batch resized them with the Digital Photo Professional (also included) and merged them into a movie with some free JPG to avi software I found online.

[yoqi]

Thanks - is there a way to save these pics directly to SD card (would be more practical on a beach, say). Can't see myself lugging a laptop around with me!

[toastjam]

Well, the laptop was required to actually trigger the camera every six seconds (via the EOS Utility software). So, while you can have it save the pics to the camera instead, you'll still need the laptop, since the camera unfortunately has no built-in timer function.

I forgot to mention that I also used an A/C adaptor for the camera so that I could make sure it didn't run out of battery in the process, since this video represents about 3000 shots.

[sc882tt]

what time did you start recording and what time did you shut it off ?

[toastjam]

I think this is from about 3pm till 9pm.

[Drew602847]

What settings did u use for the time laps?

[bapab]

the end is kind of magic

[trainlova12]

how did you keep the camera with battery? just using the computer?

[ninjamark69]

very coool.. I have a t1i and i just learned all this stuff right now.

[itsmeadrian1234]

awesome work buddy.. hope you can show us the Eifel tower from afternoon till evening. cheers XD

[lutzreblez17]

did u need to connect your t1i to your computer to do this?

[hyperionland]

well , i've made timelapsing using compact cameras but knowing the average lifetime of a DSLR I counl'd waste those thousands of shoots...

[bazman1987]

Really cool timelapse!

[arherrington]

Very cool. Two questions:

1) What program did you compile the movie with?

2) How long did you set the images in the post-editing for? .25 seconds per image? The timing was nice in this video.

[MrCactusplants]

it dosent have a timelapse movie maker built in.

he is most likely using canon eos utility, if not he is using a remote timer.