Time-Lapse Photography with your Inexpensive Canon Camera

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 20, 2010

“Parts one and two talked about some of the cool features you
can enable on your camera by installing the Canon Hack Development
Kit. But the most powerful CHDK feature is the scripting
interface.

“Scripting is how I first found out about CHDK — at a workshop
at WhereCamp. Jeffrey Warren of Grassroots Mapping demonstrated
balloon aerial mapping using a cheap Canon camera and materials
like a cut-up soda bottle, string, a garbage bag, tape, and open
source photo stitching software.

“It’s a phenomenally cool project. Grassroots Mapping folk have
traveled all over the world: they’ve helped villagers in Peru and
El Salvador make maps to prove ownership of their homes, and
charted the spread of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“Lots of fun, but how does this tie in to CHDK? When your camera
is 500 feet up hanging from a balloon, how do you tell it when to
shoot photos? You could build some kind of radio-control gizmo, but
that’s expensive and complicated. All you really need is a script
to shoot at regular intervals — say, every 10 seconds.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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