Time-Lapse-- We Sure Could Have Used You This Week

[Shawn Nelson]

Can we AT LEAST get an intervelometer? Red1 had that super early, just give us the ability to put time in between the 1fps

[Victor Lazaro]

I understand your frustration, but the others are right. As technician, it should also be your duty to inform your client that with a 5DII time lapse they get:
- better definition than the Epic (21.1mpx)
- better control over the time lapse
- better image quality (no compression in RAW stills)
- a lighter camera that can go in smaller spaces
- a cheaper solution!!!
- the option to use a huge panel of automated sliders and motors (Kessler) custom fitted to the 5DII
- the option to shoot the time lapse as B-roll while still shooting on the Epic (saving time, therefore money, for a better end result)
I mean, COME ON!
Again I understand that an intevalometer is definitely missing, but it should not be killing your business.

[Jaakko Rinne]

- better definition than the Epic (21.1mpx vs 5mpx)

The MX sensor is 14Mpix, not 5.

[Nils Ruinet]

I would also like to get a real time lapse mode in the Epic, but I've already shot dozens and dozens of time lapses using Epic's current 1 fps mode. It works fine, and if it's too slow you can always speed it up in post, any NLE can do that very easily and you get to chose the best speed afterwards. Plus, you get the option to do some frame blending in after effects if you want, which is very useful in some situations. So in my opinion, the Epic is already perfectly usable as a time lapse camera.
The only thing I would really like to see are longer exposures than 1 second... But the Red One can't do that neither...

Oh and btw Joe, you have some gorgeous time lapses on you Vimeo page !

[Victor Lazaro]

The MX sensor is 14Mpix, not 5.

True, I stand corrected

[Joe Taylor]

My argument is not about trying to convince producers to change their work flow. It is about a need for working intervelometer to be implemented into Epic. But I hear, understand and appreciate what you are saying.

Just to be clear about who I am working with on this last job-- they are diehard film guys. I've been working with this bunch from Utah for nearly a decade. It's taken me three years to ween them away from 35mm film and enter the world of digital cinema (although the majority of their work is still film.) This is PSA work and everything has to be simplified as per state sanctioned contracts. For these spots, R3D and R3D only. That's all that can be said.

I understand your frustration, but the others are right. As technician, it should also be your duty to inform your client that with a 5DII time lapse they get:
- better definition than the Epic (21.1mpx)
- better control over the time lapse
- better image quality (no compression in RAW stills)
- a lighter camera that can go in smaller spaces
- a cheaper solution!!!
- the option to use a huge panel of automated sliders and motors (Kessler) custom fitted to the 5DII
- the option to shoot the time lapse as B-roll while still shooting on the Epic (saving time, therefore money, for a better end result)
I mean, COME ON!
Again I understand that an intevalometer is definitely missing, but it should not be killing your business.

[Victor MOREIRA]

+1000 on time lapse.

[Jarred Land]

+1000 on time lapse.

Time Lapse is functional in the Lab..... Time Lapse you guys should see in the next big Build, along with Speed Ramping.

[Charlie_Grinnell]

Time Lapse is functional in the Lab..... Time Lapse you guys should see in the next big Build, along with Speed Ramping.

YES! this is awesome, I have already been doing a bunch of 5k 1fps HDRX TL's so I am excited to see with what you guys came up with!

[Anderson Boyd]

speed ramping! hot damn.