Longest shutter time

[Antony M]

I am planning on doing some timelapse filming at night.

As such I need to have exposure times in the order of 30-45 seconds per frame and set the Interval to 64 seconds.

The problem: From looking at the menu guide, it seems that in timelapse mode, the longest shutter is only 0.5 seconds (even though in non-timelapse the longest is 1.0 seconds).

Is this correct, or have I missed something?

If this is the case, then I guess I will have to use my Canon still camera and put the individual shots together in AE :-(

 

[Jeremy Newmark]

The longest exposure you can get at the moment is 1 fps. You can do this in either varispeed or timelapse mode. If you want a 30-45 second exposure you'll have to go with another camera.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Yep. 30+ seconds exposure time is DSLR territory. Hopefully the DSMC cameras will allow for long exposure shooting, but that's another discussion entirely.

 

[Pedro Guimaraes]

put that feature on the wish list for a new build......to me it seams crazy that it's not there already.....maybe there is a good reason? who knows.....

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I don't think the Mysterium sensor design would handle long-exposure very well. Even at 1/2 second to 1 second, it's not uncommon to get lots of "hot" pixels.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Yeah, Red One's sensor is not ideal for really long-exposure stuff.

Antony M, I'm curious to know what type of shots you are doing that require 64s intervals?

 

[Antony M]

Antony M, I'm curious to know what type of shots you are doing that require 64s intervals?

Tom,

Funny that you should ask that...
I wanted to try some experiments, inspired by your amazing work!

So, what camera(s) do you use for your night-time timelapses?
Presumably a DSLR from this thread?
If so, how do you trigger them every x seconds? Most DSLRs don't have such triggers built-in (AFAIK).

EDIT: I have just found your Forum on timescapes.org. Very informative. Thanks.

Thanks,
Antony