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Posts: 20
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Joined: May 2012
(2012-06-06, 15:51)gwegner Wrote:That's what we all thought.(2012-06-06, 15:43)Bas Wrote: Btw, I dunno who or what your boss thinks. But 300 bucks for timelapsing a one and a half year project is ridicious. I think you are great to put in the effort of making the best out of it, I like that in people.
That's what I thought.
The boss wanted a Rebel T3 with wide angle lens, intervalometer, and weatherproof, heated, cooled, solar-powered outdoor enclosure. He proposed it to the administration asking for about $1500 (on a $14M building!) and they shot him down. So we funded it out of our own budget, which, at the end of the fiscal year, is stretched thin already.
Believe me we're not pleased with the set-up, but we're doing the best we can with what we have to work with. At the same time, there are almost no expectations of quality out of this project from anyone, so nobody will be let down, really.
And, the white balance is set to auto on the camera.
(and you're right, anytime I want to adjust the interval or something like that, I need to go touch the camera. Sucky all the way around, I know. Theoretically, though, once everything is dialed in, I won't have to touch it for long, long periods of time. the Wifi enabled SD card is set to auto-clear all transferred photos as soon as it reaches 80% capacity, so it will create "endless memory" as it were...won't have to really mess with it at all unless the script crashes or it falls out of the window or something.