If you have seen the creative potential for this style of photography and are ready to begin making some of your own videos, check out the egg timer timelapse page for the full details or make your own. I’m blown away by how amazing my shots came and eager to visit some nice looking places and really produce some cool time-lapse effects. If you like the standard effect it is still a great option and gives some amazing results, of course, you need a good location. It does not have adjustable timing so 15 mins are always 45 degrees and 1 hour covers the full 360-degree range.When compared to time-lapse lapse equipment not inspired by kitchen items, these limitations surface.Check your camera has a timed shutter, if it does not you can record a video for the entire time, but you might need to plug in the charger and have a big memory card. We set ours to take a photo every 5 seconds, started the recording, wound the timer then let it sit for half an hour each time. Really simple we used an action cam to make a time-lapse the app for many cameras have options for photo speed. I have not tried but there are plenty of photos of others, so if you already have a flat top timer get out the blue tac or screwdriver and make your own custom one.
Have an egg timer at home? DIY one yourself! Kitchen Timer: - flat top so I can stick the action camera mount on it. It basically means taking a lot of photos or a really long video, then speeding it up to show time passing faster than reality. A quick comparison of two timers I bought to shoot the panoramic time-lapse videos. If you have seen a video before of time going fast, such as a blue sky with clouds racing by or a sunset video, it is a timelapse. You can attach a phone mount and download a time lapse app to capture footage with your phone. The beauty is it has a screw mount on the bottom and top so can be used on a tripod and is compatible with any standard camera, even your phone/action cam (with an adapter). It is a simple concept that works and this is my take on the first steps in the world of time-lapse.
Essentially it is, just they have removed the smaller numbers and added a tripod camera screw. It blows me away that this is an unedited image taken with a phone.If you are like me, the first time I saw this I was reminded of an egg timer. To get an email when I write another post, please click here to subscribe. If you have any questions/would like to share your experience with time lapse videos or DIY video rigs, please leave a reply below. Rebuilding it to be more compact with standard tripod mounts would be awesome. Or if you have have R9k to burn (price ) then buy this. Thus, unless you already have an old kitchen timer ready to be sacrificed, I’d recommend you just buy something like this instead. Buy RST-7006 LCD Screen Time Lapse Intervalometer Shutter Release Digital Timer Remote Controller with N10 Cable for NIKON D90/D5000/D7000/D3100 Camera at. Also it doesn’t have female (below) and male (on top) tripod mounts to allow for easy connection of accessories.
It can only rotate anti-clockwise (panning right to left) with a fixed rotation rate of 360°/hour. Just make sure you can hear the ticking to make sure it’s working! Post-Build SummaryĪs a DIY project, this was fun and can provide some awesome results. So just turn the dial all the way to max, turn on the time lapse mode on your phone’s camera, mount your phone, aim it and relax. Now to create a holder for a phone, the curved pointer is cut so it has a flat surface:Īnd now you can use a rubber band to mount your phone at any angle between 0 and 90° (seen here facing straight up, the exact setup used to shoot this palm tree): Or alternatively remove the pin that holds it in place, silencing it completely:Īfter re-assembly, I reverse mounted the mechanism so I can see the moving parts and there’s some extra height: You can either use the pliers to snap it in half, causing it to make a more plasticky buzzy sound: This is the “hammer” that strikes the metal housing to create the ringing sound: Remove the back plate and the three screws holding the metal housing to the mechanism: That can be pretty annoying and incompatible with quieter environments so let’s silence that first. Leatherman (Pliers and Phillips Screwdriver)Įverytime your timer hits zero, you’ll have to hear it ring.Rotating (mechanical/clockwork) Kitchen Timer.I’ll be showing you how to modify a mechanical kitchen timer into a Rotating Timelapse rig that I used to capture that second video! What I used
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