Half term and a sunny afternoon brought out the bird feeders. Taken using the time lapse function. One second interval, 100 ISO, AWB, (slightly cooled in processing), centre metering, -1.0EV. Assembled using Photoshop CC.
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Showing posts with label time lapse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time lapse. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Time Lapse SJ5000+
A bit of fun in the lab. 1 sec interval, heavily cropped to conceal people walking by. lab. Real time over an hour so connected to external battery just in case.
Monday, 9 February 2015
SJCAM SJ5000+ Firmware Wishlist
There is no doubt that the SJ5000+ is a work in progress and SJCAM may now be regretting their rush to get to market before the 2014 holiday season as the bad feedback from early adopters must be harming their reputation. Unfortunately much of far eastern culture and business relationships is about saving face and it would be a shame if this got in the way of squaring up to any shortcomings which have come to light.
May I suggest that SJCAM need to first address some existing issues:
1. Crashes and freezes.
2. Power management.
3. WiFi stability. (If this is hardware related then offer a rebate or recall)
4. Waterproof case obstructing corners of still images in 4x3 aspect ratio.
When these problems are solved SJCAM could retrieve some kudos from retrospectively adding some new features to the camera.
1. Control over sharpening. Offer a zero sharpening option especially in stills.
2. Auto Shooting. more interval options to allow production of 4K Super High Definition time lapse, 1/2sec, 1sec, possibly some longer than 60sec.
3. Zoom option which crops video image "on chip". That is uses a reduced area of the image sensor and real pixels rather than cropping the video output and uprezzing which exaggerates noise and sharpening artefacts and smears detail.
Finally a suggestion for a model option, (SJ5050?), with a narrower field of view and less fisheye distortion.
May I suggest that SJCAM need to first address some existing issues:
1. Crashes and freezes.
2. Power management.
3. WiFi stability. (If this is hardware related then offer a rebate or recall)
4. Waterproof case obstructing corners of still images in 4x3 aspect ratio.
When these problems are solved SJCAM could retrieve some kudos from retrospectively adding some new features to the camera.
1. Control over sharpening. Offer a zero sharpening option especially in stills.
2. Auto Shooting. more interval options to allow production of 4K Super High Definition time lapse, 1/2sec, 1sec, possibly some longer than 60sec.
3. Zoom option which crops video image "on chip". That is uses a reduced area of the image sensor and real pixels rather than cropping the video output and uprezzing which exaggerates noise and sharpening artefacts and smears detail.
Finally a suggestion for a model option, (SJ5050?), with a narrower field of view and less fisheye distortion.
Friday, 6 February 2015
SJCAM SJ5000+ and 4K Video
SJ5000+ owners who can't (or won't) afford a GoPro Hero4 and want to experience the joys of Ultra High Definition 4K Video can take advantage of the Auto Shooting function to assemble time lapse videos in 4k. This is not to be confused with the built in time lapse facility which processes in camera to output standard High Definition video. The individual 16 Megapixel frames must be imported into the video editor of your choice and assembled into footage. Not difficult, I use Photoshop, any version after PS6 will do it. There are advantages in using this method to create time lapses at lower definitions also. Provided that intervals of 3secs or greater are OK, (built in time lapse goes down to 1sec), having 16 Megapixels to play with gives you the opportunity to do zooms and pans to liven up otherwise static scenes without losing detail, likewise a fair level of de-fishing can be achieved keeping full HD resolution.HERE
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