rn passing hours into seconds of video with this handy camera
Time-lapse video can be stunningly beautiful, or simply amusing, but without specialized equipment, they're somewhat difficult to create. But a new digital time-lapse camera available from Photojojo makes it easy and worry-free.
This bright blue pod-shaped camera is weather-resistant, so you can leave it outside to capture the snow falling or the garden growing. The camera's lens can focus at standard or macro distance. It takes pictures at interval settings ranging from 1 second to 24 hours, with film lengths depending on how many pictures you take (the required 4 AA batteries will last for 38 hours at the fastest setting, up to 200 days at the slowest). There are six default settings, and you can create a custom setting for any period from 5 seconds to 12 hours.
The most intriguing feature about this camera is that it does all the work of putting your JPEG images together for you. No more long and tedious stitching in video programs — your series of images is automatically saved as an AVI file, ready to watch or upload to YouTube.
Post by Katherine Gray
via news.yahoo.com
It is hard to keep up with the offering of new technology. Ya know what? You don't have to. Just pick something you like and master that. However, it's much like window shopping, if you have the time. Or like I have often done at the famous cheap-o store that distributes inexpensive imitations of quality tools.
I just love to get the H. Freight ads by email. I have to limit my actual visits to their stores or I will go broke. I am a sucker for tools. I can browse such stores for hours. I usually buy a cart full of gadgets and tools. But the real benefit comes from the mere knowing that such tools exist.
I am an eternal tinkerer (I even fancy myself as an inventor). As such, I am better able to know of the quickest tool for a given job, if I know every option available.
My dad taught me a lot of the basics--both with photography and with building things. Sometimes I am amazed that the good old methods used back when have been replaced. And sometimes the old methods are better, it turns out. But you never know. In many cases there are new-fangled gadgets that will do a job in a fraction of the time.
The idea is, whether inventing things or making pictures, you likely won't be using a solution that you don't know about. But that also might be just fine.
