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Hello again Hans - Thanks for the schematic, I really apperciate your help.
I haven't yet posted anything on Youtube or anywhere else. I'm just getting back into it after 4 or so years of thinking about it after my last efforts, and have finally decided to jump in properly. I am using a Canon 5D2 body, (I was using a Canon 700D previously). I'm also sorting out power as the internal camera battery dies quickly in the cold Australian winter. I'm now using a 5200 milli-amp hour Li-Po RC car battery for the 5D2 with a dummy battery adapter to power it overnight. I have also just bought a new, good copy of the Samyang (Rokinon) 14mm f2.8 lens which I am playing with, but we have cloudy skies at the moment nearly every night. I'm also thinking of getting the Samyang 24mm f1.4 as I get deeper into it (my shortest prime is otherwise a 35mm Canon f1.4 L, and I don't want to use my Canon 16-35 L zoom for timelapse work).
I was using Magic Lantern for the timer, but I found LRTimelapse a few weeks ago and it piqued my interest. I built the timer and have used it a few times (works well and lasts all night on 4 x AAA Eneloop batteries), and I have a really stable Manfrotto 075 pro tripod to put it all onto. Where I live in Canberra is right near the center, by our lake (Lake Burley Griffin, google it) but the skies are not dark enough. My wife and I also have a house on the far south coast of New South Wales that we get to every few weeks, and the skies are really dark there so that's where I'm planning on doing most of my night sky shooting, so it will be a while before I get any material worth posting. I'm planning an astro time-lapse over rocks at at place called The Point at Tura Beach, New South Wales (again, google maps is your friend) for my first few sequences as it is wild, with rocks, cliffs and water so it should look OK I hope. (You can see the rocks at The Point here in my flickr stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/norm_p/397...ed-public/
The reason I built the timer is that I had found your slider stepper controller and I wanted to move up to that level , so Pro Timer Free first, your controller second and then a slider as the final bit. I know I could have just bought a Syrp Genie and a Rhino slider but I wanted to do it myself on a tight budget for my own satisfaction.
Again, many thanks and I will let you know when I have started on the controller build. I'm waiting on the Arduino Nano, a stepper control board and the NEMA17 motor to arrive, I have bought everything else already.
Cheers, Norm, Canberra Australia
I haven't yet posted anything on Youtube or anywhere else. I'm just getting back into it after 4 or so years of thinking about it after my last efforts, and have finally decided to jump in properly. I am using a Canon 5D2 body, (I was using a Canon 700D previously). I'm also sorting out power as the internal camera battery dies quickly in the cold Australian winter. I'm now using a 5200 milli-amp hour Li-Po RC car battery for the 5D2 with a dummy battery adapter to power it overnight. I have also just bought a new, good copy of the Samyang (Rokinon) 14mm f2.8 lens which I am playing with, but we have cloudy skies at the moment nearly every night. I'm also thinking of getting the Samyang 24mm f1.4 as I get deeper into it (my shortest prime is otherwise a 35mm Canon f1.4 L, and I don't want to use my Canon 16-35 L zoom for timelapse work).
I was using Magic Lantern for the timer, but I found LRTimelapse a few weeks ago and it piqued my interest. I built the timer and have used it a few times (works well and lasts all night on 4 x AAA Eneloop batteries), and I have a really stable Manfrotto 075 pro tripod to put it all onto. Where I live in Canberra is right near the center, by our lake (Lake Burley Griffin, google it) but the skies are not dark enough. My wife and I also have a house on the far south coast of New South Wales that we get to every few weeks, and the skies are really dark there so that's where I'm planning on doing most of my night sky shooting, so it will be a while before I get any material worth posting. I'm planning an astro time-lapse over rocks at at place called The Point at Tura Beach, New South Wales (again, google maps is your friend) for my first few sequences as it is wild, with rocks, cliffs and water so it should look OK I hope. (You can see the rocks at The Point here in my flickr stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/norm_p/397...ed-public/
The reason I built the timer is that I had found your slider stepper controller and I wanted to move up to that level , so Pro Timer Free first, your controller second and then a slider as the final bit. I know I could have just bought a Syrp Genie and a Rhino slider but I wanted to do it myself on a tight budget for my own satisfaction.
Again, many thanks and I will let you know when I have started on the controller build. I'm waiting on the Arduino Nano, a stepper control board and the NEMA17 motor to arrive, I have bought everything else already.
Cheers, Norm, Canberra Australia