"I use an old Sony DCR-PC2 digicam and connect it by Firewire to my old Dell Win2K PC. The only freeware video program that works with this setup is FWink. It takes a picture every minute and stores it as a 600*800 bit jpeg. The pictures are renamed and stored using a VBScript program. I analyzed all the pictures with IrfanView and selected the most interesting ones." I use an old Sony DCR-PC2 digicam and connect it by Firewire to my old Dell Win2K PC. The only freeware video program that works with this setup is FWink. It takes a picture every minute and stores it as a 600*800 bit jpeg. The pictures are renamed and stored using a VBScript program. I analyzed all the pictures with IrfanView and selected the most interesting ones."
This looks like a very fun project. A camera with night vision could do some cool astronomy with a similar system, there are projects like this done by amateurs and professional surveys. A whole sky fisheye lens or "hubcap" mirror would be great to catch meteors and other sporadic phenomena.
Skywatch from "Urban Adventure in Rotterdam" |
..that gets you tóns of photo's..
60 per hour and roughly 1000 per day (that is if you don't take photo's while it's dark).
How do you keep check if something interesting happens? Just scan over the pics and throw the rest away?