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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Tom Lowe...

Tom Lowe said:
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We had the Epic out at Badwater last night. Don't ask about the slider... we were super, super rushed on the setup. We got this set up literally 20 seconds before the best light of the evening. Somehow, the shot worked out great! The sky was a subtle, pastel orange and pink, mixed with white clouds, which blended nicely against the white, salty ground as the camera flew over it. My hope was to move the camera in a "Z-axis" move, meaning as straight forward as possible. Lens was 16mm, so I had the camera off to the side of the slider a bit, and the slider itself just slightly caddy-corner. I call this a quasi-Z-Axis move.
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i totally understand rushing for that one shot! Glad you have an Epic back in hand!
 
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I took another crack at Badwater again yesterday evening. No grad ND, so I was relying on the dynamic range of the camera. In a sense, because the ground is white, this actually helps. I was able to see a lot of detail in the salt patterns while holding exposure on the clouds.

I actually shoot differently on the Epic vs how I used to shoot on the MX, mainly due to it's size. Those are two sandbags holding the blocks of wood.
 
Tom, I'm a little out of the loop on your recent adventures with your M. Glad to see you and #188 back in action. Watching the RC heli go down with #188 on it must have been a sight bordering on traumatic!

In this most recent outing are you doing time lapse with it, or real time motion pictures, or both?
 
So far, I am shooting all realtime on the Epic. The lowest framerate available right now is 12fps. I am, however, very excited about the forthcoming timelapse functions on Epic.
 
Tom, press and hold the fps indicator for a few seconds...
(email me after that)
 
*starts frantically ripping the Epic out of backpack*
 
Muahahahaa!! *rubs hands together* It's alive.
 
Do tell guys! Do tell!

Anthony
 
People who are wondering: see the Epic Manual page 52, advanced fps settings.

So how low can you go?
 
Steve Wake said:
People who are wondering: see the Epic Manual page 52, advanced fps settings.

So how low can you go?
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1 sec for now. More flexibility later.
You can also drive it with precision through the shutter sync port.
 
Tom, you should ask Eric if he can make you a custom cable that works with the Kessler camera control module. The wiring info is on page 125 (PDF page 126 on toolbar) of the EPIC Ops manual. He has a couple of choices. He can make a cable with a Lemo that plugs straight into EPIC or he can make a cable with BNC that connects to the EPIC sync interface cable. (140-0078)
 
How granular will control of the shutter be, Deanan? For example, could we externally trigger 1/100th shutter, up to several seconds, eventually?

This is the Holy Grail. With very precise control, day-to-night transitions will be possible. Right now, the fastest external shutter control on the Canon cameras is 1/20 or longer, up to minutes long.

Or maybe some way to do shutter ramping (say, 1/1000 to 20 seconds) in camera?
 
Tom Lowe said:
How granular will control of the shutter be, Deanan? For example, could we externally trigger 1/100th shutter, up to several seconds, eventually?

This is the Holy Grail. With very precise control, day-to-night transitions will be possible. Right now, the fastest external shutter control on the Canon cameras is 1/20 or longer, up to minutes long.

Or maybe some way to do shutter ramping (say, 1/1000 to 20 seconds) in camera?
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There are multiple ways to control both shutter trigger and duration.
The maximum length is still TBD. Since MX is a high speed sensor
and there isn't a physical shutter to do a dark frame capture, there
are some limitations.
 
I see. Well, I am going to try some timelapse on this baby very soon. :)
 
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