Goleta DeskTop Publishing Users Group Meeting
7pm Thursday October 4, 2001
Goleta Public Library
500 N. Fairview Ave
Goleta, CA
October 4 -- Time Lapse Digital Photography
by Bryan Mumford
Bryan is an inventor and has developed a device which allows people to take photographs at precise times after a triggering event. This device, which he sells as "The Time Machine", allows high speed photographs of popping balloons (in mid-pop), the brief splash of a milk drop, unattended photographs of wildlife, and time lapse movies of clouds or flowers opening. Demonstrations and examples of photographs will be shown.
Take a look at the photos and QuickTime movies at http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug/0110pics.html to get an idea of what can be done with a little imagination.
Sometimes you need to see exactly what's happening, but the action
is too fast to see by eye. If it is repeatable, like the milk drop or
a mechanical action, you can take a series of pictures, each with a
little more delay, and string them together into a movie, like these
clips of a milk drop splashing into a saucer, which can be seen at
http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug/011004/milk.html
and of a Synchronome clock escapement, which can be found at
http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug/011004/escape.html
Please send email to gdtpug@troutcom.com with suggestions for topics you are interested in seeing covered. Or even better, volunteer to give a presentation!
The Goleta DeskTop Publishing Users Group is a SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Santa Barbara PC Users Group. We are not platform specific: some members have PCs, some have Macs, some have both. Linux and other systems are sprinkled in as well for good measure. We focus on the issues of publishing in all forms, be it on paper, web, CD-ROM, or some other medium.