Hi Chris! You've done a great job on this tutorial. My favorite feature in the menu that you presented is the final length of the finished sequence at the current interval. That's very helpful. I wish you all the best.
Interesting question. I never did a time lapse that long. BUt I guess yes, it would be limited to that, but your battery would likely not last that long.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YmCKVZ5Jy-w.html Hi Chris, forgot to share the results - this was taken in town. The 2.8 14-24 lens really picks up what we can't see. Thanks!
Your tutorials on night photography is easily the best that I have seen on RU-vid! Very clear, concise, and well scripted. Thanks for making these videos, they were of great help for a beginner in this genre!
Hi Chris, Many thanks for your very instructive videos on the subject of night time lapse. I'm traveling to the southwest in may and would like to take such brilliant shots of the starry sky, especially in the Grand Canyon. I have a Z7ii and also a 20mm, 1.8 with me. my goal is to keep the effort in post production as low as possible. are your videos out of camera, or did you edit them extensively (color grading, etc.)? what settings would you recommend for a day to night time lapse (holy grail 😂)? I probably can't get around the readjustment of aperture and iso, right? thanks for your hints! Greetings from Berlin/Germany
I just edit video a little but in Devinci Resolve. I never done the day to night before, but I assume you must connect camera to phone and adjust settings every som often while light adjusts.
When I set my camera to Manual it won't let me take time lapse pictures. only in Auto mode can I. Is there a setting I need to unlock, or is my 24-70 lenses not allow it.
Unfortunately, time lapse is not available on the z6 ii camera in M, A, S or P modes with version 1.5 of the firmware. If you think it is, then please say HOW, because it’s disabled on the menu for me. I could only get it working on Auto mode.
Very helpful video! I have the z50 and am heading to Norway in October to photography/time lapse the Northern Lights. In this video you used an ISO 4000. I’ve learned that ISO 1600-3200 is recommended for photographing the Northern Lights. For Time Lapse do you need a higher ISO (4000)? Thanks!
Nice video, shots and explanation. It's not my genre but, still, nice. I would think, about the "1.8" versus "kit lens" and shooting the Milky Way, that the problem of longer exposure times per frame is actually the Earth's rotation. That rotation turns stars into trails when the exposure gets longer. At some point before we get trails, stars become comma shapes and that looks like an optical flaw in our lenses. Living at ~52 degrees Northern latitude, we (Earth) still have the same angular velocity but circumferential speed here is much lower than at, say, the equator. Go to the Caribbean and every day at 6AM the light is switched on, and at 6PM it is switched off. Here, it may take an hour or two, depending on cloud cover. Or, I'm not sure if latitude impacts the maximum exposure time per frame we can use, but it might. If people want to shoot the Milky Way only, I guess they have compensation devices at work that compensate for the Earth's movement, but, have foreground in frame and that will move through, into, or out of, the frame. At the equator, the circumference of the Earth is 40,070 kilometers, and the day is 24 hours long so the speed is 1,670 kilometers/hour (1,037 miles/hr = 902 knots). This decreases by the cosine of your latitude so that at a latitude of 52.3 degrees, cos(52.3) = 0.612 and the speed is 0.612 x 1,670 = 1,022 kilometers/hr (61.2% of circumferential speed at the equator - 552 knots)
Thanks for the excellent video:) Your video helped me with several things. However, one thing held me up from getting a time lapse (even after watching your excellent video). That is, a time lapse doesn't seem to work if the shutter mode has any sort of time delay. Please consider adding a note to the video (if that's even possible) to recommend the shutter mode be turned to single image. My shutter mode (set to time-delay of 5 seconds) plus my 5-second exposure (combined equals 10 seconds) counterintuitively still prevented me from creating a time lapse (image every 15 seconds).
The longest shutter speed you can use with that lens might be 8 seconds before you see star trails. Just change your shooting to an hour and 30 minutes to get 30 seconds.
Hi Chris, great video, i´m getting a z6 and want to ask this: since the time-lapse require lot of shutters action, this can be done with electronic shutter instead? to reduce the usage of mecanical shutter and prolong the camera life? And, can you set your ISO, shutter aperture and focus mode in a preset to access directly from the mode wheel? thanks.
Hi Chris! I've made some great time lapse and photos of the northern lights here in Norway for the past 3 weeks. My question is how can I get the photos from the timelapse? I cant't find them on my Nikon Z6ii. Thanks in advance :}
hey chris, how does the Z50 perform at night and is it easy to see on the screen? I've heard that the Z5's screen isn't very good in dark conditions. And is the Z50 a good camera?
Hi Chris, Thanks for all your great information that helped me to shot the milky way and do the first steps towards timelapse with my Z6ii. Could you give me advise on wether to buy a nikkor 20mm Z 1.8 or rather the sigma Art 20mm 1.4 with the adapter. Which one would you prefer and why?
Hi, great video! Just a question, when the timelapse video is created, where i can find the singles shots, for an adjustment for example? i wasn't able to find them on the SD
@@attrell but also good to know is that the Z6ii gives you the option of creating a video and also save the stills in interval timer shooting. The original Z6 doe snot let you do this. Both do a great job but good to know.
You video on time lapse movie came in really handy last night when the aurora visited South Dakota. Ran the z6ii for 3 hours with a 14 mm lens. Got great results - thanks again!
Hello and thank you! I never resized the videos, facebook and youtube do all that for me. When I have to trim a video for length, I use Devinci Resolve.
Well one big error is the z6 ii camera with version 1.5 firmware does not make time lapse available under camera modes A, S, P or M (which he uses in the video) Maybe it was true on early release of the firmware, but not today. (I’ve complained to Nikon customer support too). Of course this limitation confines user ability to tailor exposure to conditions.
