Hi, Shawn and all. Greetings from farther north in BC. I have been playing around with making animated gif time lapse star pix with my K5. Examples can be found here:
Index of /animations/astrophotos/
I think all the EXIF was stripped off when making the gifs. The limitation of the gif format in knocking the individual frames down to 8 bits is evident in the blockiness of some of the series. But it at least gives you the idea of what can be achieved. Most of these were shot with the DA35 AL @ f3.5, ISO1600 at 8 seconds per frame. I had the shutter set in Remote Continuous Shooting mode and locked the remote release so it would take one frame after another with the least pause possible between frames. Because these series contain over 200 frames, I used the AC inverter to power the camera. I like the result but I'm searching for a program that will allow me to do animated pngs which would give much better quality.
Jack
Prince George, BC
