Watch the movie full screen at HI-RES (1080px) (you set it by clicking on the settings icon in the youtube window after play starts) or you will miss several details.
Waiting for the PanSTARRS comet, I trained with the D800 time-lapse option. First part of the post movie was shot 1 frame / min (too fast), second at 1 frame / 10 sec (the speed I prefer), third at 1 frame / 20 secs (still too fast).
The camera mounted the Nikkor 50 mm F/1.4G and was set on:
- f/2
- ISO 640
- Mirror up and tripod to avoid vibrations
- center balanced metering to have small overexposed areas.
The pictures of each movie part were merged into a .MOV file in camera, so not too many options were left for editing except into Windows Movie Maker or similar. Next time I will try D800 Interval pictures instead, as each frame is separately saved as single file and open for more modifications.
Filed under: photo lessons artborghi, photography of sky Tagged: artborghi, C/2011 L4, Comet, lorenzo borghi, PANSTARRS, panstarrs astrophotography, time lapse photography d800, time lapse settings d800
