I decided to play around with the time lapse photography function of the Canon PowerShot G9 camera this afternoon. I needed to wash my car, so I figured that would be an interesting test of the capabilities of the system. I set the camera on my tripod and configured the time lapse system to make a photo once per second. The camera performs this task and builds an AVI video file that plays back at 15 frames per second. This video clip of less than 90 seconds shows about 18.5 minutes of activity. The G9’s time lapse system can also be configured to shoot an image once every two seconds as well. When the G9 records time lapse video, it does not record sound. After I created this clip with the camera, I produced it with Cyberlink’s PowerDirector v7 to add the title frames and the music soundtrack. I think this feature is quite entertaining and I’ll probably look for some additional subject material that would make for interesting time lapse studies…

Equipment, Video Clips