The idea behind the time lapse was to chart progress at DM. I’d been using a few Brinno TLC200 Pro cameras which are designed for time lapse. The Brinno’s battery life can be stretched to months, which is great as you can place them anywhere and not have to worry about a power source. That said the quality isn’t as great as I’d like so I thought I’d try something different.
There is a lot of cameras out there to choose from, the obvious choice being the GoPro. Ideally, I want a few cameras but with GoPros costing around $300, the GoPro was out. I saw the Sony AS50 on eBay and was so impressed by other peoples’ time lapses that I bought one. I’m quite happy with the quality and the fisheye effect can be lost if I film in HD and not 4k. Battery life is only about two hours so I will have to come up with some hack as this camera can’t be used when plugged into USB power supply (seems a bit of dumb design decision).
The first part of the video here was fixing up a plywood covering over one of the broken windows. Dave put a hinge on it so we could open it up and get some sunlight in there now and then 🙂 The bit where we vanish is us popping down to HomeDepot. The last section is us starting to clear away part of the rear deck which had been covered in roofing tar, kitchen cabinets and a lot of drywall. The heap must have been there for years as it had decayed into one big lump.
The actual deck supports had been placed directly on the soil so were mostly crumbling away with rot. Why do people have to do such poor work and did the people who paid for it know how bad a job it was? Even a few concrete support blocks would have made a big difference to its longevity.
Aimee: I was shell-shocked after last weekend’s poison ivy and the weather has been crummy. It was hard not to get a little down this week with all of the itching and scratching, but this week the Poison Ivy Patrol will come and hopefully we can get rid of the shack in the back, along with the nasty back stairwell soon. There is a big hole in the back of the yard where we think the pooper lives, but we haven’t seen any evidence in weeks.