I'm working on putting together a rather ambitious outdoor HD time lapse photo project that (unfortunately) I can't discuss the details of yet. (I've got a lot of hoops to jump through to make it a reality). Frankly, my goal is to get the equipment in place and functional in the fall of 2016.
The project has some rather challenging and unique requirements. A few of those are: The camera must run at a remote location - unattended (hopefully for month's) and it can't run out of power OR fill up a memory card. The remote location has no power and is about 1/2 mile (line of sight) from civilization and a Wi-Fi network connection. It is going to have to survive in Nebraska weather, including the potential for snow/ice, high wind, rain and hail. I think I've figured out how to do it, but I need to do a lot of testing of various apps, services, and power recharging systems before I know **exactly** what sort of equipment I'm going to need to purchase to get the job done (and, for example, how many frames per minute I'm going to be able to take without crashing something or overtaxing my Wi-Fi connection. And I also need to secure some necessary permissions from some fellow humans. The project is ambitious enough that, once I've done my homework I may be looking for corporate sponsors and even trying my hand at crowd-funding. However, I've definitely identified the camera I'm going to use: The 16MP rear-facing camera in the LG G4 smart phone. I'll be using the camera without a dataplan (cellular data transfer is waaaay too expensive) and instead depending upon Wi-Fi for the (unattended) image transfer to the cloud (Amazon Cloud Drive, which is $12.99 year for unlimited photos - including RAW files). Speaking of which, the LG G4 shoots can shoot RAW. It isn't perfect, but some geeks have already built a profile for it's output which corrects for its vignetting and color-cast issues. More details to come as I move along in this project. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
