Time-Lapse/Intervelometer w/ Red

[Joe Taylor]

As I delve further into Digital Cinematography, my main concern is the ability for true time-lapse cinematography.

Will the RED system ever have a full-on intervelometer that will permit true time-exposures and even astonomy work?

[Brook Willard]

Intervelometer (http://www.reduser.net/forum/search.php?searchid=167639)

Timelapse (http://www.reduser.net/forum/search.php?searchid=167643)

Both subjects have been discussed at length. Please try a search if the two searches I linked to above don't cut it.

[Joe Taylor]

SEARCH for "Intervelometer" and "Time-Exposures/timeexposures" was the first thing a tried before my first post.

I guess what I am asking is pretty specific. "Will the RED have a built-in and programmable intervelometer capable of time-exposures?"

Again, I have tried "SEARCH" with no results.

[Cory Mitchell]

I don't know if you saw this but...

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1810&highlight=timelapse

sorry for the highlighted, I'm just passin' it on...

Anyway it looks like there is time-lapse, although I'm not sure if that's what your wondering.

[Joe Taylor]

I don't know if you saw this but...

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1810&highlight=timelapse

sorry for the highlighted, I'm just passin' it on...

Anyway it looks like there is time-lapse, although I'm not sure if that's what your wondering.

Thanks. I've read through all of this info. and did not find enough. I have SEARCHED and found this, that, and nothing.

I was under the impression that this forum was moderated by RED and the answers would actually come from the people at RED who really know the system inside and out. I know it's a small team and not SONY, that's why I was hoping for real info.

What I want to know is very simple. For the person in the know, I'd really like appreciate fresh answers.
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"Will the RED have an INTERVELOMETER?" "If so, will it be advanced enough to do real time-lapse work?" "Will it be programmable?" "Is there is an intervelomter, is there any real published material about it's features?"

[Tom Lowe]

I have an awesome place in mind up in Lone Pine, CA. I scoped it over a year ago, and I've been wanting to shoot it ever since. Night stuff. If your camera can handle 45-second exposures, we'll have something good. :)

[4Kcuts.com]

The SI2K camera has timelapse capacity as does almost every motion picture camera, especially EFX cameras used for plate shots. Being able to go from reel time to timelapse in the same frame is very useful. Not having to carry other cameras for timelapse is also a good idea. Look at movies like Baraka,
Koyanisquattsi, and other gems, why should RED limit itself as to what we can do with the camera. For some cinemagraphic shots, day time and night time from the same camera vantage at different exposures is so cool. We are going to be using great glass with our Red cameras, so long exposures should look graet, and the great glass being used would probably be less prone to flare and ghosting. Also a timelapse interval would potentialy record much less data, then shooting a reel time shot and speeding it up later. I hope the RED team does not limit clients potential uses of the camera.

[Tom Lowe]

4Kcuts, standard timelapse is guaranteed with your RED.

[Keith Nealy]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1998&highlight=frame+accumulation

This is one of the more exhausting threads on the subject.

Aloha,

Keith

[Stuart English]

Will the RED system ever have a full-on intervelometer that will permit true time-exposures and even astonomy work?

So the answer to that is a timelapse / intervalometer mode yes. Suitable for astronomy work, I couldn't comment on that.

[Joe Taylor]

So the answer to that is a timelapse / intervalometer mode yes. Suitable for astronomy work, I couldn't comment on that.

Excellent. Thank you, Stuart.

[Alex Boothby]

So the answer to that is a timelapse / intervalometer mode yes.

Will exposure compensation for ramps be shutter speed?

[I Bloom]

I have an awesome place in mind up in Lone Pine, CA. I scoped it over a year ago, and I've been wanting to shoot it ever since. Night stuff. If your camera can handle 45-second exposures, we'll have something good. :)

Ah yer killing me with memories now. I used to live out on 168 outside Bishop. Would love to go out there and shoot some timelapse. Go up into the bristlecones. Stop by the hot springs.

IBloom

[Stuart English]

In a digital sensor & shuttered camera, there is automatic "shutter speed based exposure compensation". Unless you were using a mechanical rotating shutter, constant exposure is in fact what happens by default. We have to program the sensor to react in a "traditional way" i.e reducing the exposure time, as the frame rate increases.

Adjusting exposure time to account for frame rate is just what we do when we program in the Shutter in degrees rather than fractions of a second.

[Tom Lowe]

Ah yer killing me with memories now. I used to live out on 168 outside Bishop. Would love to go out there and shoot some timelapse. Go up into the bristlecones. Stop by the hot springs.

IBloom

You know, I have never been out the 168. I spend weeks every summer on 395, mainly hanging out at Twin Lakes up near Bridgeport, Whitney portal, Alabama Hills, etc. I guess summer is the wrong time to go out the 168, though? What all is out there? Would it be worth checking out this fall?