Technik Der Woche #5 Time Lapse

Do you ever wish you could make  everyone disappear from a crowed city street, and capture just the emotional value of the architecture? Well some of you are probably thinking to yourselves the people add to the emotion, keep them in. You could do that, but you could  also create a very interesting effect out of the entire event. Slow things down, to the point where everything moving is but a blur or gone entirely.

Wait what? If your shooting at night, or in a dimly lit room, this is an excellent technique. Set your camera to manual mode, or on a film range finder just set the following settings.

1. Aperture Should be set to smallest setting (Highest F/Stop I.E. F/16)


2. Shutter speed should be adjusted to the point where the meter registers +1/3 generally around 30seconds to 1 minute. On a manual film rangefinder set the camera to bulb, and hold it open for a count. If you have a shutter release this may help as well.


3. Do it again. Not every shot is going to be blurred as much as you want it to be. Keep trying. You might try opening up an old cheap rangefinder like a Argus C3 and creating a pinhole camera, out of it, dragging exposure times from 60seconds to several minutes.

There are tons of things to try just go try.