Lightning Photography - CHDK with MX3 Motion Detection - A Strike Every Time
While browsing the main CHDK Russian forums, I ran across some interesting
links. The originator of the RAW-hack, which caused the birth of CHDK, tested
MX3's implementation of motion detection to see if it really was fast enough to
capture lightning strikes with total automation.
Just set up your camera, load a motion-detection script, trip the shutter, then
go back inside (your house, or car) where it's safe. Retrieve your photos later.
No wasted frames to sort through either. Each one will have a lightning bolt
recorded on it.
If this was the game of bowling and your camera could knock down 10-pins, a CHDK
equipped camera would get a score of 300 with every game.
translated by Babelfish from Vital.'s Russian post about this:
mx3 Listen to idea to shchet of detektora davol'no interesting to me it were
pleased, but the lightning of vsezh of vryatli of poymayesh, the reaction of the
apparatus too of zamedlenna in order to have time to make a photograph! It is
possible to attempt to remove lightning with the aid of the interval survey in
JPG and by turning off of the deduction of dark sequence in tuning Alt by menu
To koye, which for me was possible to catch thus on A630: http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001658/000165784/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001657/000165611/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001657/000165612/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg And
one additional request: can smozhesh on the basis of another script create
breketing of sensitivity ISO and breketing of diofragmy (A.v) greatly can it
will prove useful for the survey of night objects, etc! Zaraniye it is grateful
:-)
The 1st collection done with the usual manual method, tripping the shutter and
waiting and hoping. The 2nd and 3rd collections were done automatically with a
CHDK motion-detection script.
(translated from bablefish:
yes lightning thus not you pofotografiruyesh'. Somewhere even lay script for the
"correct" method. 4 itself wrote its itself (simply interval survey). After
this, and with such thunderstorms as this summer, even ugas the interest in the
lightning - is pair of tens of good already. For example on http://club.foto.ua/gallery/series/2720.html the first is made "hands", the
second and the third - by script. )
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:08:28 GMT, KevenGaston <none@anywhere.org> wrote:
>
>While browsing the main CHDK Russian forums, I ran across some interesting
>links. The originator of the RAW-hack, which caused the birth of CHDK, tested
>MX3's implementation of motion detection to see if it really was fast enough to
>capture lightning strikes with total automation.
>
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W00...%23_Vital..jpg
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W00...%23_Vital..jpg
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W00...%23_Vital..jpg
>
>
>Here's some more from another tester in that discussion thread:
>
>http://office-manager.pochta.ru/myxa/pesdanulo1.jpg
>http://office-manager.pochta.ru/myxa/vstrecha.jpg
>http://office-manager.pochta.ru/myxa/pesdanulo2.jpg
>
>Just set up your camera, load a motion-detection script, trip the shutter, then
>go back inside (your house, or car) where it's safe. Retrieve your photos later.
>No wasted frames to sort through either. Each one will have a lightning bolt
>recorded on it.
>
>If this was the game of bowling and your camera could knock down 10-pins, a CHDK
>equipped camera would get a score of 300 with every game.
>
>
>translated by Babelfish from Vital.'s Russian post about this:
>
>mx3 Listen to idea to shchet of detektora davol'no interesting to me it were
>pleased, but the lightning of vsezh of vryatli of poymayesh, the reaction of the
>apparatus too of zamedlenna in order to have time to make a photograph! It is
>possible to attempt to remove lightning with the aid of the interval survey in
>JPG and by turning off of the deduction of dark sequence in tuning Alt by menu
>To koye, which for me was possible to catch thus on A630:
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001658/000165784/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001657/000165611/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg
>http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/12/W0001657/000165612/... _3_%23_.Vital..jpg And
>one additional request: can smozhesh on the basis of another script create
>breketing of sensitivity ISO and breketing of diofragmy (A.v) greatly can it
>will prove useful for the survey of night objects, etc! Zaraniye it is grateful
>:-)
>
>Full thread starts here: http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=20:22191-32
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