3/27/2023 0 Comments Astro timelapse premiere![]() ![]() ![]() The latest Nikon NIKKOR Z 600mm f/4 TC VR S lens reviews.Ending soon on Kickstarter: Clever Supply camera sling bag and SPINN CP camera strap 2023 edition.New: Zitay CFexpress Type B to SSD converter.Today only: $230 instant savings on the Delkin 512GB CFexpress Type B memory card.The latest Nikon interviews – nothing interesting to report (Nikon is expected to sell more than 300,000 Z9 cameras).Another batch of the Nikon Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S lens is now shipping.Nikon trademarked a new logo – what do you think it is for?.Top 10 NikonRumors posts for February 2023. ![]() DxO released new Optics Modules with support for two Nikon Z lenses.Reminder: the 10% instant Nikon lens discount in Europe is ending this weekend.CIPA January 2023 numbers: every category was down.New Nikon savings in the UK: up to £250 off the Z5, Z6II, and Z7II cameras.Migrating to a new server, expect some hiccups this weekend.Send tips | news | rumors | guest post ideas export to Adobe Premiere, cutting and exporting to final video and various formatsĪll this can bring even fast machines to their quad- or more core limits.īut in the end, when you first watch your time-lapses on the big screen, it is very very rewarding.choosing a great soundtrack and cutting the sequences to that, in my case “Black Hole Sun” from Soundgardens milestone “Superunknown” album from the 90’s.de-flickering in AE with Granite Bays great deflickering filters, sequenced.import into Apple Aperture, great Luminance, contrast and other optimization tools there whitch can be easily batch applied to all TL images in a sequence, batch export of those further optimized images as JPGs and import to Adobe AE.batch lens error corrections in Nikon Capture NX on all NEF files and batch export of those images to JPG.I use Mac hardware and my workflow consists of: There are different workflows with different TL photographers. Time-lapse is also extremely demanding on post processing, as you get lots of gigs of NEF raw images to finally extract the time-lapse footage. additional 3D heads for extra tilt and pan that are mounted to the dolly, like the astronomic Skywatcher/Orion/Merlin or MEADE heads that move all the Nikon SLRs around (of course some more mobile power is needed)Ĭount all that power consumption together and think “low temperatures”.Dynamic Perceptions Stage Zero Dolly (of course it needs mobile power source in the field).The modern TL photographer these days struggles around with so called “Dolly” Systems to get panoramic moves, like flickering (small variations on luminance per each shot due to aperture variances).focusing (using LiveView on bright stars to manually focus).battery consumption, making external power sources necessary.CF or SD card reliability and size (64 GB the least).On long sequences, one takes up to 3500 or more images a night with one body and you run into a lot of challenges: In fact, it is the most demanding photography I have ever done. Time-lapse photography itself is demanding on cameras as well as on the hardware in post processing. It also has far better battery life than the D700. I like the D7000 a lot as it is super fast, lightweight, has a very good noise-to-signal behaviour and a crop which is useful for deep space astrophotography. I have taken all footage with Nikons D700 (my astro-favorite), D300, some footage with D3x just to test and just recently I added a D7000 to my setup. Some words on how the video was produced: Even here in Tyrol, Austria, where we live in an area with some silent and dark valleys left with low population, Light Pollution has become an issue in the recent decade. A problem we have on our beautiful planet, that hinders us to watch a clear night sky from our crowded cities or illuminated landscapes. My spin-off video is a statement against so called “ Light Pollution“. So this got me interested, and one year later my new astronomic time-lapse Video “Black Hole Sun” is featured on National Geographic News: For the latter, they use special astronomic mounted telescopes with dedicated cooled CCD cameras and computerized GOTO software to follow and find stars… very hardware intense… Some of them often do time-lapse astrophotography with a second or even third camera whenever they do skywatching and deep space imaging. As I dug deeper into the astrophotography scene and all the dedicated international websites, conferences and events, I got to know many interesting astrophotographers. ![]() Last year I got myself into landscape astrophotography as I was invited to do a story about that topic for a German Nature Magazine. He has been a Nikon NPS Photographer for many years doing mainly outdoor, landscape and sports (bicycles) photography for various international magazines and bicycle manufacturers: This guest post about time-lapse landscape astrophotography is written by Christoph Malin from Austria. ![]()
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