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Hands On Nikon D60 With Stop-Motion Movie Walkthrough
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 10:48 AM on January 31, 2008
Pop quiz: Which one of these is the D60, and which one is a D40? You can't tell, can you? Ha! That's because it really is pretty much the same chassis (and guts) so if you know the D40x, you know the D60. The best new thing is the stop-motion movie stringer, which is quick, if simple—here's the whole process:
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slaughter
Posted 12:19 PM 31/1/08
If there was ever a feature you didn't need on a dSLR, this is it. The D40-nonX is still their best non-pro camera. The best thing about the D60 is that stores are now giving away the D40 for peanuts.
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doofusgumby
Posted 12:19 PM 31/1/08
intervalometer even.
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doofusgumby
Posted 12:19 PM 31/1/08
damnit, I when I first heard about the stop-motion thing I thought this would make a nice time-lapse cam setup. only 100 frames? pfffft!
*now stuck trying to find an intervolometer rig AGAIN*
doofusgumby
AlanAudio
Posted 8:19 PM 31/1/08
From the walk-through, it looks to me as though this is a feature that assumes you already have a sequence of suitable photographs and it allows you to export them as a short movie at a frame rate and resolution of your choosing.
I'd have thought that this was a function that is done better on a computer afterwards. It's something I've done on my computer for many years.
It would be nice to have a decent feature within the camera for taking pictures at pre-set intervals, this seems to be what some of the replies seemed to be talking about. The ones I've seen in cameras are far too limited, but Canon ( and I'm sure others too ) offer a very useful bit of software that works well with the camera connected to a laptop. The great thing is that the images are stored directly to the computer's hard drive, so storage cards aren't filled up. If you externally power your camera, you can shoot time lapse sequences that are incredibly long.
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snowninja
Posted 8:19 PM 31/1/08
wow Nikon come on pull it together and rig the software to let this thing shoot till the card fill! What ever size card that might just happen to be! Do it for the d200 also plz:)
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SeattleTed
Posted 5:19 AM 1/2/08
I think I'll need a gizmatrix with all the newbie dslrs out...hint...hint
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NateDiggy
Posted 1:20 PM 1/2/08
The pro series Nikons have an Intervalometer built in so you don't need to connect them to a computer. If you're using a camera that doesnt have this feature(ie. canon, sony, etc) just get a PocketWizard MultiMax and you can use its intervalometer function which works very well.
NateDiggy
NateDiggy
Posted 1:20 PM 1/2/08
@ DOOFUSGUMBY
The higher end Nikon cameras all feature a built in intervalometer. I'm not 100% about the newest but I know for a fact the D200 and D2X(s) have them. Otherwise get yourself a PocketWizard MultiMax(and the appropriate cable) for your existing camera system and you can use its intervalometer function.
NateDiggy
doofusgumby
Posted 8:19 AM 2/2/08
@NateDiggy: yes, I know. but I need six or more time-lapse rigs, only use them two or three times a year, and the budget can't handle SIX D200's. It could possibly handle six D40/D60's. But the multimax doesn't work with the low-end nikons, only the low-end canons. and I already have some of the appropriate nikon lenses.
*sigh*
doofusgumby