Nikon D60 is announced

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bob DeleteThis @yeruncle.com wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:35:32 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3127 DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 29, 10:02 pm, b... DeleteThis @yeruncle.com wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:30:37 -0800, Paul Furman <pa... DeleteThis @-edgehill.net> wrote:
>>>> Neil Harrington wrote:
>>>>> http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d60.htm
>>>> Ha, it does movies (sort of):
>>>> "Stop-Motion Movie mode is a D-SLR first that enables users to create
>>>> stop-animation movie clips from a series of as many as 100 consecutive
>>>> JPEG picture files."
>>> That's only between 3 and 6 seconds of video, depending on the frame rate, not
>>> even enough to do 1 scene...
>>>
>>> I wonder why they bothered?
>>>
>>> (Standard video is either 24 or 30 frames per sec, cartoons can run as low as
>>> 15.)
>>>
>>> You can set a program like Pinnacle Studio to load stills, set them to 32
>>> milisecs or whatever, and load in 1000 pics for a scene, and it outputs a movie
>>> clip.
>>>
>>> Do they have a size setting of 1920 x 1080?? Or 720 x 480?
>> What kind of idiot would do this? I suggest to anyone looking at this
>> feature, go buy a frigging video camera, they cost next to nothing,
>> and you can cavort with the rest of your "kind."
>
> It's not for taking video, it's for making 'stop action' animations - very
> popular these days with DSLRs.
>
> I know 2 people doing this, one uses a D70, the other uses film...

I love time lapse.
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External Since: Sep 18, 2007 Posts: 96

On 2008-01-31, bob.TakeThisOut@yeruncle.com <bob.TakeThisOut@yeruncle.com> wrote:
> My nephew does this in collage with a D70... I'll have to ask how his shutter is
> holding out!

Stop-motion collage? How does that work then, any examples online?

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