Don't know what I really think of this: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/24/omg-life-creates-autographer-wearable-automatic-camera but I saw it shortly after viewing this neat instructional video http://cinematography-howto.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-time-lapse-video-with-dslr-and-intervalometer-269678/ and it gave me an idea:
It would be interesting to wear the Pentax Q around one's neck and just have it set to take images with its built-in intervalometer while walking around the streets or something (hands-off). People would pretty much ignore a camera that doesn't have the wearer's hands on it. This idea would work for any camera with a built-in intervalometer (like the K-5) but it think it probably becomes a little more problematic (in multiple ways) to handle the larger the camera in this way. The built-in intervalometer can take up to 999 images, so you'd have to do the math to determine how often to have it take a photo for the length of time you wanted it to "run" (also your card capacity and whether you were shooting JPEG or RAW/+). Another (related) idea would be to use this to create time-lapse video from still shots. Imagine walking through a crowded rush hour city sidewalk and into a cafe shooting this way at 1 image every 3 seconds. That's 20 frames per minute and if you put that together (for example in QuickTime Pro) at 20 fps you have a 1 minute of real life = 1 second of your time-lapse video. 1 hour of real life = 1 minute of time-lapse video. Think this is dumb or does it have merit? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.