Hello, today I'm going to be looking at the new Nightlapse feature on the HERO4 GoPro camera.
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Hi, I’m Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV. Today I'm going to be looking at the new Nightlapse
feature on the HERO4 GoPro Black Edition camera. A few weeks back we looked at Night
Photo mode on the HERO4. Now this is a new mode that allows you to take control
of the shutter speeds so you can create long exposures. So if you're with less light, long exposures
create some really nice photographs. Nightlapse mode is just an extension of this, in you can shoot
continuous stills for as long as you want to and then later on knit them all together to create a low light
time-lapse sequence. The idea is that you can make time-lapse sequences of the
night sky or other darker events at night that you wouldn't be able to capture with normal
time-lapse mode so it is a multiple image capturing mode. When you're shooting Nightlapse
there are two important considerations, and the first and most important one of all
is your shutter speed. Now you can choose anything from auto which the camera does for you up to
2 seconds. 2 seconds, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds or 30 seconds.
Now the thing about this is, that it might take a little bit of practice just to get
your exposure right because if you shoot 10 seconds, It could well
could too much like the whole thing
likewise if you’re down at 2 seconds there might not be enough light. So you can
play with it but
at least if you're using the app you can shoot, test, look back at it, make sure
it exposes ok and then carry on when you've got it right. The second setting you need to
know about is the interval. Now this is the time in between shots. This camera will
shoot from 4 seconds up to 60 minutes. So it is actually possible to shoot one 30
second exposure shot every hour, if you are connected to an external power source of course. Right so
bearing in mind that GoPro Studio will play back your time-lapse sequences at 30 frames per second by
default then you'll need to set your interval and understand how long your
event is gonna take and also how long you want that sequence to last on camera. Got it? For
example, as we were shooting in the time-lapse video episode we were shooting the
sunset and we knew we wanted a sequence of about thirty seconds and we knew that
the sunset was going to last about half an hour. Now doing a bit of calculations
with that gives us our interval. Your interval is absolutely crucial to
a time-lapse video because it will decide how long your piece of film is
going to be. So if it's playing back at 30 frames a second, if you take 30 frames it will take a second on
screen. There is one interval setting that's going to be useful in Nightlapse and
that is the continuous setting. Now what that means is that the interval between
the exposures will be the same length as the exposure itself. Got it? So if you're
shooting a 2 second exposure the interval will be 2 seconds, if it’s 10 second
exposure the interval will be 10 seconds.
Basically what this does is that it allows almost continuing shooting. So if you're
shooting a 30 second exposure, for example if it's really dark and you’re shooting the
night sky and 30 seconds is the only exposure you can use it will take a shot
every 30 seconds. So it will give you the fastest time-lapse available for those light
conditions. That's actually quite useful. So what's Nightlapse going to do? Well if you've got
moving images and you've got long exposures, you're obviously going to get
motion blur from that. So if you're looking for a moving sky or something like that
then you're going to have to make sure as with Nightmode that you lock off the
camera.
Fair enough. Now there is one other thing about this which I found quite interesting and we thought
that we would do a few experiments to see if it will work,
the difference between time-lapse and Nightlapse in terms of the way that the
GoPro exposes the shots. Now in theory if you're shooting with Nightlapse the
exposures should be longer keeping the ISO down and in time-lapse if you've got
less light then it will push the exposure, we hope, before it pushes the
shutter speed. Got it? So in time-lapse if you've got low light situations you're
getting grain, with Nightlapse in low light situations you should get motion
blur. Now motion blur is something I actually quite like and I think it's quite
interesting to potentially shoot sequences in half light, if you like with
a little bit of motion blur. Right I’ve set the camera up, it’s starting to go dark hopefully the
streetlights come on in a minute, but for the time being a set the camera running
onto auto on continuous interval and for now we wait!
Nightlapse mode is a photo capture mode, unlike video time-lapse mode which is a video mode and takes a series of video
stills. Nightlapse takes a series of photographs still and then you have to take them into GoPro studio
later to knit them all together and it's a small price to pay because in actual fact
Nightlapse mode will allow you to put the GoPro into Protune mode which means you can control ISO limits, your color,
your color temperature and that means that actually you've got a lot more options and can be a lot more creative.
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