Likewise Jacob, thanks for the comments. I really enjoy your content and crazy to bump into you both. Mangakahika and that whole area is there is a magical place to me...👌

Thank you! a lot of manual calculations to figure out a rough track of the milkyway core.

Thanks Jonas - just some bite size moments speed up amongst the heap of much longer full holy grails scenes sitting on my hard drives gathering dust :)

Thanks Man

Thanks dude!

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Thanks Stephen, its been a bit challenging over the last few years to get out there and chase the illusive light, part of the appeal for me is to try and find a beautiful scene that no one else has already shot, fortunately there are so many gems out there often not far from the beaten path. Hard to get your work out to the masses when you don't post often enough, content exposure is so ruled by social media algorithms.

I could never do that, it has too much history for me too

Thank you Milan

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages I use Alobal, a thin aluminum foil, to protect the camera from the sun and rain. I twist the foil around the camera strap. Shiny side up. I can send a photo by email.

@@milankrupcik Thanks for the tip - yes please do!

Hey Colin, pretty cool to hear from you, and thanks for the kind words. Hope all is well with you?

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Hello - thanks for the kind feedback - I'm still shooting as much timelapse as ever when I get a chance but I haven't kept the vlogs going as I kind of got a bit burnt out doing them. It all takes a lot of effort. I have a back log of 8k and 4k timelapse footage that I will be putting together into a couple of new show reels that I will post up on this channel when I get them done.

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Awesome - I'm still going out and shooting this stuff - and sometimes I just go out there to get away from it as well......

Thanks Josh - always interesting setting up in the rain!

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Thanks, I used to shoot daytime scenes a lot using HDR methods, these days much less, with big files you need big memory cards and the processing can be extremely slow depending on which method is used.

Thank you! A lot of my early landscape timelapse work was HDR batch processed in post and the way I was doing took forever to process, so it's nice to have the in camera option which does a reasonable job, however you do need to allow at least 6 seconds interval time and I like to shoot shorter intervals especially when clouds are moving fast etc. In some ways these bush scenes may be better shot just as video footage especially when there are fast changing light conditions.

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Cheers Stephen - yes hard to get it right in there regarding water levels etc. I think I'm just going to go back to bracketing 3 frames and not using the in camera HDR processing and blending in post as I like to have shorter intervals.

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Yes the podocarp forest stretches back to the time when New Zealand was part of the super continent of Gondwana. I that scene there is a huge range of exposure between the sky and the low light understory. The in camera processed HDR images did not really pull much detail out of the sky but I may not have set the neutral exposure right meaning that all 3 exposures were probably over exposed. Even though the camera has this HDR mode I will probably just bracket 3 exposures and post process into HDR as I like to to keep my intervals very short and the processing time takes around 2 to 3 seconds in camera meaning I really need minimum 5 to 6 seconds interval.

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Thanks. I'd go insane if I couldn't get out. Stitches out now so should be back to normal.

usually when I see people coming I explain to them that I'm shooting timelapse and they are about to walk into the frame, then they are usually pretty respectful and avoid the scene. The birds I can deal with in post. Get the stitches out in a couple of days so should be back to full duties soon. Thanks for the support!

will be able to remove them in post when I have time to render all this footage properly. Yes the NZ sun has taken it's toll and most of damage done when I was a young boy I would say - not the awareness we have around it today, living under the big hole in the ozone layer. I have have had quite a things removed over the years, pays to get it checked.

Thanks Josh - yes I've had a lot of things not necessarily go to plan with timelapse photography over the years - I've come to expect a percentage of failures, so I'm not too phased by it. Got to show it how it is - don't believe in sugar coating reality....thanks for the feedback on the audio, and the comments, it's great to hear from you.

Thanks for the tips Ken. I always externally power the view and ensure the internal battery is fully charged as well. I have had the disconnection error a number of times summer and winter conditions but have never been able to establish any commonality to the error. What minimum temperatures are you shooting under. When I'm shooting it would rarely get below -10 celsius.

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages I have been out and camped overnight down to 0 Celsius or just under early Spring time. Ounce at -6.6

@@ETERNALFLIGHT63 thats when you really start to appreciate a quality rated sleeping bag....

Thanks Josh - work has gotten in the way in editing lately, yes the failures only make you more determined to get out there again. Sounds like the z's have something good there, I'm still after the 8k frame so I don't know if they cater for that, but yes really interested to see how your ramping goes for a full day night day scene?

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages that bloody work stuff ae 🤷‍♂️ that’s usually my biggest problem limiting my time out in the wilderness. Um Z7 has you covered for 8K work

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages also yea when the weather breaks I’ll be doing a full ramped setup and report back to you 👍

@@joshmorgan3750 yes well if only the weather knew the difference between a work day and a weekend! Good to know about the sensor size!

@@joshmorgan3750 looking forward to se the results...

yes especially when you only have so many chances.....some of the big wilderness over night/multi day camping trips I do in the summer are almost once in a lifetime trips where I just can't afford things not to work!

Thanks, that's good to know, a friend of mine also uses the Z series body and has said that it has the capability to auto ramp in a way where shutter speed is ramped first, then aperture, then iso into the dark and then in reverse out of the dark. I can auto ramp on my R5 but can't really influence the order of parameters. Also I like to be able to ramp the interval and I'm not aware of any cameras that have this ability yet. But Sony and Nikon seemed to have it over Canon here so far.

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages in the Z6 serie you have the option to prioritise intervals or without priority. The Z6 / Z7 / Z5 are iso invariant and for the Z6 iso 640 at the max in the auto iso setting this is the ideal value since it has 2 steps sensor gain [100-400 ISO] and above ISO 640) At ISO 640 SNR and dynamic range are awesome. In the timelapse and interval submenu you have two choices. One is interval priority and the other changes the intervals depending the lowest light level. If you go from night to day in P-modus and Auto Iso at a certain point let say you start with 4 seconds intervals but you'll end up with 30,5s / 31 second intervals if you use 30 seconds as a max speed, You can set the max aperature and max iso setting and max shutterspeed duration. The same applies to the Z6/7 II but they are even more suited since they can use any powerbank. Otherwhise you're done after 4 hours (at -2C) .

@@br2v Thanks for the info - that sounds like it does everything the external ramper does even interval ramping. With my canon I was using a dummy battery hooked up external 12v battery with a drok step down buck converter to 7.5v.

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages I'm still researching if anything is also really anything but it is close and convenient :--) In the Netherlands I've not the dark sky possibilities of NZ. I hope to hike in the mountains within a few weeks and have some nice skies, but they never get as dark as NZ! not even close.

@@br2v I would struggle a bit, not being able to access truly dark skies, I would miss it....

thanks mate, yes it's a bit devastating, but the hardest part is not being able to diagnose the issue and not knowing when it might fail. Would be great to have something bullet proof. Yes we have wonderfully dark skies here....hope it stays that way!

Thanks Darren - I have also used qdslrdashboard and never had a trouble free run. Did also consider loading up magic lantern to get a bit more video resolution out of my older Canons when they only shot 1080p but not for time lapse. Don't why the camera manufacturers haven't built specific ramping time lapse programmes into the camera bodies yet?

yeah the gear failures are upsetting at the time but they fade pretty quickly....thanks for the comment!

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages I really appreciate your work!

@@russellrobinson505 thanks Russell appreciate the support!

Thanks Ken! When shooting a high number of frames like these all nighters at around 3200 frames the longitudinal movement across a 5ft rail is almost imperceptible unless there are objects really close to the lens, also when combined with a 360 degree pan it's hard to see the difference between pan + slide and pan alone. I have done a few 360 pans with the head running along the full length of the rail twice - which since it's double the length its provide a bit more of the slide movement effect. The bonus of pan alone is that it's a bit easier to ensure no cable snagging. For the shorter duration shots like just sunset, sunrise etc slide is much more pronounced but always needs some close by reference objects to really show off the effect.

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages Thank You!