Problem with Nikon Z7 II Time Lapse and Interval Timer Shooting 

Excellent point but I always shoot in overflow and my primary card is the super fast CF Express.

I haven't had that issue as of yet but I'll try to replicate it and let you know.

I got that message using my z5. I believe I adjusted my focus settings and got it to work. Tonight was having trouble using it again.

Same here. I shoot astro, and this is very frustrating.

The thing to keep in mind is that Nikon's definition of Interval is from the start of one image to the start of the next image. Not the time from the end of one image to the start of the next. You didn't state how long your exposures are, but I'll assume that they were set for longer than 9 seconds. If so, that is why you only get one image because the camera will have "taken all 9 of those images by the time the exposure of the first image ended because you asked it to start the next image 1 second after starting the previous image and it will just count them down one second at a time then stop. See my reply to Terry Kontopoulos elsewhere in the comments where I delve deeper into that and the fact that longer exposures, such as 15 and 30 seconds, are longer than you think they are.

It's his recording... look at the flag on his hat. It's backwards.

Thank you Natalia! I've never tried Olympus before.

Hah you mast to try it 😃😄

He clearly said that he doesn't want the ISO jump up which can ruin the shot...

was about to say that

You are limited by how the camera operates to 5 second or greater intervals in interval timer mode if you want to manual adjust the shutter speed.

I see you've done a review of the Z6 II, would you do an experiment to see if you can manually adjust the shutter speed at 1 second intervals when in interval timer shooting mode?

@@AdamKyleJackson I am not sure if I understand it correct. The interval in interval timer mode is the time from one shot to anoter shot not the time between the shot, if you want to add 1s time between the shot then your interval has to be greater than 1s+ shutter speed of that shot and that way you can do 1 second interval between the shot.

@@riteshkc11 correct, my concern is when selecting 1s at the interval between shots, the camera does not have enough time to process and register the information necessary to make manual adjustments. I found that is is barely possible at 5s intervals and totally possible at 10s.

@@AdamKyleJackson I am not sure about z7, I can definitely do that in my z6ii.

There are two factors that most people aren't aware of when doing Interval Timer Shooting. The first, which based on your comments I believe you're aware of, is that Nikon's definition of 'Interval' is the time from the start of one image to the start of the next image. It is not the time from end of one image to the start of the next. Most people jump into it without reading the user's manual and don't realize this. I have no idea if Canon, Sony, and others operate the same way. The other factor, which hardly anyone is aware of, is that what camera manufacturers list as an exposure time, in many cases is not the actual exposure. As you know, in order to change your exposure by one full stop you need to double or halve your exposure time while ISO and aperture stay the same. The baseline starting point for the exposure scale is 1 second. Start doubling and halving the time from there and you'll quickly find out that they don't line up with the stated exposure durations in the camera. Below I've listed the indicated shutter speed in the camera from 30 seconds to 1/1000th of a second and compared it to the actual shutter speed (which is based on the 1 second baseline). Obviously there are many more exposure options, but I'm limiting this to full stop increments/decrements. Shutter Speed Indicated (secs): 30, 15, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 Shutter Speed Actual (secs): 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, 1/256, 1/512, 1/1024 This has nothing to do with Nikon. All cameras operate the same way in this regard. It has just been an industry standard since at least the 1950s to use the shutter speed scale that we're used to seeing. Why? Human nature. It's easier to say 1/250th or 1/500th of a second than it is to say 1/256th or 1/512th. This is not an issue when dealing with fractions of a second, and mechanical shutters aren't that accurate anyway. But with the advent of digital cameras we've had the options to take ''15" and "30" second exposures. And that's where the problems start. So, your 30 second exposure is actually 32 seconds in duration. Therefore you need to input a minimum interval of 33 secs for the camera to take the total number of images you requested since it needs a little bit of time to recycle and take the next shot. If someone wanted to take a series of one hundred 30 second images and they wanted to have 1 second between images but didn't realize that interval is start-to-start, they will set up their interval timer with 100 images and 1 second interval. When they press start the camera will start counting down the images one per second (the interval) and after one "30" second exposure the camera will have "taken" 32 images. It will then stop after taking only 4 exposures since it will have counted down all 100 of the desired exposures shortly after starting the 4th exposure.

@@Robert-R Canon R5/R6 operate in the same way.

If you do milky way timelapse you won´t see the additional 4s gap in the film because each frame will be finally 1/25 of a second within the timelapse film. However, here I think is the reson why there is the "exposure smoothing" function at z6II and z7II..