In this episode of The Breakdown, I'll
show you guys how I shoot time-lapses,
using the new Sony a7III.
Welcome back to The Breakdown,
my name is Miguel Quiles.
I am here in beautiful Red Rock Canyon,
and I decided that I wanted to take some
time lapses. It's been a few years since my
first episode, which you can watch in the
description below.
I actually was in Las Vegas, and I shot
some time lapses on the strip using the
a7rII, using the PlayMemories app, which
unfortunately is not available in this
latest generation of Sony cameras, so
what I want to do is, I want to show you
how you can shoot time-lapses, using
these brand new Sony a7III, without that
PlayMemories app. We're actually going to
use an intervalometer, which is what's
used with most DSLR's, to shoot time-
lapses, so let's go ahead, and let's take
a look how we're going to set this up. Let' s
talk about our setup here really briefly,
so the superstar of this entire time-lapse
is going to be this tripod. I've got a
Benro Go travel 2 tripod, it's made of
carbon fiber. Very lightweight, love to
use this tripod because, it's super easy
to travel with it, lightweight, could
stuff it into a camera bag, a roller bag,
and won't put me over my weight limits
when I'm traveling, so that's what I'm
using to kind of keep this whole thing
secure. I've got the new Sony a7III, that
I'm going to be using to shoot all of these
time-lapses that you're going to see here
in the sequence in the video, and I'm
using the 12-24mm f/4, G Series lens
from Sony. I wanted to get a really wide
shot last time I came to Las Vegas, and
shot that time lapse tutorial. I didn't
have a lens this wide, so it's kind
interested to see what it would look
like, to do some really ultra wide
different shots with this lens, and then
I'm using this Velo, it's a shutter boss
2 intervalometer, and it's pretty handy.
It hooks up to a USB 2.0, and basically
this is what's going to be controlling the
camera and telling it when to fire, how long of an interval
and basically everything, settings wise, is
going to be done here, so I want to show
you guys the settings for the camera, and
then I'll show you the settings for the
remote control, and it will start
shooting. Let's look at the settings on
the intervalometer first, what we're
going to do, is we're going to set this
interval time here to 5 seconds, so every
5 seconds, it's going to take a shot, the remote
is going to tell the camera to
fire, and we'll have a photo. The next
thing we're going to do, we're going to arrow
over, the number of frames that we're
taking, you could take up to 399
shots, and so that's what I'm
going to do. I'm actually going to go ahead and
set this thing to 399, let it take a
bunch of photos. I may not actually end
up using all of these frames, because I
think that's about a 16 or so second
clip, and I like to keep them a little
bit shorter. But I'd rather have a few
more frames, just in case the clouds get
a little bit more interesting towards
the end of the sequence of shots, so we
have 399 shots, and I do keep the beep on
because I like to walk around, and not
have to be kind of stuck to this camera,
and I want to hear the camera actually
firing, and so this beep is pretty loud, I
could be you know off just enjoying
myself, and and I'm able to still monitor
and hear this thing going off, so those
are the settings on the intervalometer.
On the actual camera, my settings are
going to be... we're shooting this at an
aperture of f/8, shutter speed of 1-320th
of a second and ISO 100. Now for
your particular shooting scenario, the
settings could be totally different. I
dialed these settings in, by, first let's
say the aperture, because you probably
want to know... why did you choose f/8?
I really wanted to get a lot more of this
scene in focus, so I want to shoot at a
higher f-stop so that I can get some of
the foreground and of course the
background in focus, as far as the
shutter speed, I basically look into the
viewfinder and I want to make sure that
I'm not losing or clipping any of the
highlights. So at 320th of a second,
I'm able to do that, and I'm just
evaluating that through the electronic
viewfinder. ISO of 100 is because I want
to keep the best possible quality for
these images,
if I shoot some at night, I would likely
end up either dragging the shutter like
I did in the first time lapse tutorial,
or I would raise my ISO, which I prefer
not to do, because I want to I want to
keep these images as clean, and just as
crisp as possible. So those are the
settings. We're going to go ahead and take
some shots here, then we're going to drive
around Red Rock Canyon, and we're just
going to shoot wherever, wherever we can
find some cool locations with this
wide-angle lens. And we'll put it
together in a sequence, and I'll just
show it to you right now.
All right everybody, so that is how you
shoot time lapses using the a7III. This
process would be the same if you're
using something like the a7RIII as well,
since it doesn't have the PlayMemories
app. The remote control is fairly
inexpensive, and it's pretty easy to find,
We'll put the links for everything in
the comment section below, or in the
description below rather. But in the
comment section, what I want to know is
what questions do you guys have about
shooting time-lapses? About the camera?
The lens choice? Settings? Choices?
I don't know, whatever questions it is you have,
leave them in the comment section below
and I'll make sure that I scour the
comments to find out, and see what you
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