You could increase your intervals by deleting every other image. It's not ideal but nothing about using the m50 for timelapse is. Nice hack however, I will be giving this a try
that is exactly what I was looking for! Its good to know now that you can't get a variable exposure and different shots intervals, I'll finally stop looking for such option in the camera hehe, the trick with a lanyard is great, but I might get an app or something to have full freedom, thx
At 1:01, what do you mean? You can control the ISO AND the aperture if you have camera in manual video mode you just can't have a longer shutter speed than 1/30th of a second.
Thanks for this idea. I think this will be quite useful. However, I have to think -- Humanity in 2020: Has to fix software shortcomings with stone-age like solutions... Canon, be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not really familiar with the Sony lineup, but I did a quick search and found it's double the price of the G7X II here in Australia. For similar money you could get an EOS RP and a 16mm f/2.8 or a 50mm f/1.8. What draws you to the RX100 ?
Simple and clever idea. Just tested Intervalometer for iPhone. It works, but ties up my phone. Also drains battery whenever it’s out of my pocket I cold conditions. Question; Will camera buffer affect the consistency of shooting interval? Or is this only shooting time + save to SD time every time.
The M50 is a reasonably fast camera and has no problems keeping up with an image being saved every second or two. It would only become an issue if you were trying to shoot close to its maximum burst speed (I think around 7fps?), or perhaps if you were shooting RAW+JPEG. I haven't tested that, as I just shoot in JPEG for my timelapses and never had an issue.
Hey, I have this issue but I do not mind having my phone tied to one camera. I do have TetherMonkey but couldn't make it work, can you help me out on how to connect it properly? (if it's not too much trouble of course) Thank you kindly!
It's much easier with both the M6 and the M6 mark II, as they have a socket to plug in an intervalometer, or even just a remote shutter cable to lock the shutter down.
You can shoot up to a 30 second exposure with the m50 in manual mode. What I have found is you can shoot in bulb mode which is one click past the 30 sec exposure in manual and connect your smartphone to the cameras WiFi, so when you release the shutter on the first click it will stay open past 30sec until you hit the shutter button again on your phone and close the shutter if your looking to do star trails or something to requires a very long exposure. I’ve done a bunch of long exposure pics with the m50 and the 15-45mm and have had great results. Putting the shutter on a 2 second time delay also helps with limiting any vibrations through the camera or tripod that would ruin your shot if you don’t use your phone app. *Now that I reread looks like this is for video but still good info. Great little camera
Yes, this video is about shooting repeated longer exposures in order to compile them into a timelapse video. It sounds like you're describing how to use bulb mode for single frames. I made a video on this topic here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--TEW2l1Ts8U.html
03:14 you mentioned: "you first set the camera to continuous shooting mode..." I have a stupid question. I just cannot find that continuous shooting mode in M50 where it allows me to choose time intervals between each shot by keeping the shutter button pressed.
There is no option to set the interval between shots. The interval is dictated entirely by the exposure length, and all it does is run repeated long exposures, with no real gap in between. Scroll to the 4 minute mark where I explain its limitations.
@@WildStuff the original has preset settings for star lapse too, but it had much longer exposure times. It really took great star photos too especially on the darkest of nights. The original model automatically detected how long the exposure should be and it did an awesome job . No manual control on exposure but you didn’t need it anyway.
Is true then...can’t have a decent remote control fitted in my brand new g7x mark II. Gutted... Thanks for the idea, saved me hours of looking for something that not exist in Amazon.🤣🤪
Yes, unfortunately it's either this method or a series of phone apps. Hopefully someone has made a decent app recently that removes the need for a separate auto-clicker function.
LOL. you just made life more complicated with your DIY on the G7X II. A better and easier method is to use the Canon Camera Connect app and auto clicker or auto tapper app to control the shutter remotely. you can set camera to bulb and set the auto clicker or the auto tapper app the preferred time to click and release the camera shutter. heck you can even use it as an intervalometer. thats what i do everytime i take a timelapse with my G7X II.
I've already responded to your comment on Facebook, but for for the benefit of other viewers, I've got more than enough gadgets in my bag that each require their own phone app (multiple cameras, Genie Mini timelapse head, a drone, Gopros, etc). My timelapses are usually created with 2 or 3 cameras. As I said in the video, an app usually ties your phone up completely to the one camera, and makes it hard to use your phone for its intended purpose (ie. scrolling through cat memes on Facebook). And I don't plan to buy more phones. So when I came up with a simple $1 solution from parts I already had, and it actually *worked*, then I was happy with that. Hopefully someone else might find it useful too.
That will give basic bulb functionality for longer exposures, but to my understanding the Canon bluetooth remote does not have any timelapse capabilities.
