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Here's my situation. I'm going to be recording timelapses in somewhat difficult circumstances and I'm looking for ideas on the best way to shoot them.
The timelapses will record 24 hour time periods but often in changing and unpredictable light conditions. This includes night to day and day to night but also indoor shoots where various lighting may be turned on and off, with people coming in and out of frame in dark and light clothing, in a moving vehicle at night, etc.
Coupled with this it will often not be possible to have access to the camera during the shoot.
I'm shooting with a Canon 5D iii and Canon intervalometer at the moment. I'll also need some external power as I won't always have access to mains power. I have an Android phone with DSLR Dashboard.
Given the nature of the finished video I want to 'underexpose' dark shots, ie if it's indoors at night with the lights off I want it to be pretty dark not for the camera to bring exposure up too much (too long shutter speeds would mean missed shots also of course).
I want to avoid things like flicker as far as possible given the shooting circumstances but it seems that Gunther's classic Holy Grail Technique, splendid though it is, won't really work in this situation.
I'm thinking that I might shoot in Manual with Auto ISO (on the Canon you can set upper and lower ISO values for Auto ISO so I'll get a range of allowable exposure levels). Obviously this will introduce some flicker which I'll take out as far as possible in LRTimelapse.
Are there any better options? Will the DSLR Dashboard Auto Grail feature that Gunther is working on help with this? Any ideas generally?
The timelapses will record 24 hour time periods but often in changing and unpredictable light conditions. This includes night to day and day to night but also indoor shoots where various lighting may be turned on and off, with people coming in and out of frame in dark and light clothing, in a moving vehicle at night, etc.
Coupled with this it will often not be possible to have access to the camera during the shoot.
I'm shooting with a Canon 5D iii and Canon intervalometer at the moment. I'll also need some external power as I won't always have access to mains power. I have an Android phone with DSLR Dashboard.
Given the nature of the finished video I want to 'underexpose' dark shots, ie if it's indoors at night with the lights off I want it to be pretty dark not for the camera to bring exposure up too much (too long shutter speeds would mean missed shots also of course).
I want to avoid things like flicker as far as possible given the shooting circumstances but it seems that Gunther's classic Holy Grail Technique, splendid though it is, won't really work in this situation.
I'm thinking that I might shoot in Manual with Auto ISO (on the Canon you can set upper and lower ISO values for Auto ISO so I'll get a range of allowable exposure levels). Obviously this will introduce some flicker which I'll take out as far as possible in LRTimelapse.
Are there any better options? Will the DSLR Dashboard Auto Grail feature that Gunther is working on help with this? Any ideas generally?