Time-Lapse Photography: A Complete Guide

Is there a feature where the camera stitches it together for you? Do certain models have that feature?

One of the best and most informative videos ever. Thanks for a great tips and insight to the Fujifilm settings. Super

Great video! What drone are you using/what camera are you using on your drone?

thanks pal, i just view this tips and its work

omg thank you so much!

awesome video! thanks pal2tech

I wonder will the delay function drain the battery, I noticed that after I set it to 4 hours for example the sensor is still on, display is on with the timer going on counting 4 hours. I use the button to turn off the display and viewfinder, but the camera will be on the whole time.

So can i use capture one for making the video?

You are the best!

Thank you very much for your clear, extensive and fun videos. Learning a lot from you.

I do have an issue here: my « interval timer shooting » is greyed out. Though i follow all your steps, photometry is set to « spot »; what can be the issue here?

Thank you
Take care

i found out that with the lens twist method, i couldnt shoot with the shutter button but the timelapse started (xf18f2)

Concerning the flicker solution, couldn’t you flip the switch to manual on the front and the camera will stop talking to the lens and you manual focus?

Jesus Christ, I was looking for information on how to set my Fujifilm XT-3 to a time lapse video, but instead of going to the point, I had to skip the video 10 minutes forward to get some introduction to the information I needed. Can you focus on the subject and get straight to the point next time please? Anyway thank you for hard work much appreciated.

hi Pal. thanks for your videos! One question, if you use the method lens twisting, is it possible to use a small aperture? *or even like this causes flickering?

I’m an experienced photographer but novice at time-lapse. This video is spot on for me really good solid straight forward advice from someone who obviously knows what he is talking about 👍

Love your videos. Got many tips in this single video to run my fuji ex4 for interval shooting mode. I'm into astrophotography as I've seen no one has shared tips for camera settings for fuji to get best results for aiming nebula's. Hoping you can get a video for that. Thanks!!

That was brilliant I learnt so much. Just got the XT4 and going to give it ago on our up coming visit to Venice. Thank you.

Stunning tutorial. Thanks 🙏

Very precise! Thank you!

When I was in high school (~2008ish), I worked for a small company that made time lapse equipment for civil engineering projects, mostly bridge construction. It was super cool but mostly went over my head. We made solar powered intervalometers with waterproof housings that kept a Canon DSLR going for months on end. A five-minute time lapse would cover two years of construction. Now I'm 30 and finally getting back into this incredible hobby and photography in general. Thanks for your wisdom!

Well, here I am: A novice to photograpy, I have raked the YT and have not found a channel that would give as thorough, clear, and as practical instructions on how to use my Sony rx100 as yours on Fujifilm. So, i went ahead and got me a bearly used x-t30. For one, the fact that the most imortant settings are right on top rather than in the abyss of settings inside the camera is a blessing. Then, you make all the proceses so easy to learn. For this greenhorn, this makes it another blessing. Yes, the F camera is much heavier than the tiny S, but after watching a number of your films for days on now (my neighbors must think some talkative man has moved in with me 😆), I have decided to take both cameras to my 7 day… ultralight hike around Bornholm beginning of August. The neighbors will hear you talk a LOT before I go as I have a ton to learn and practice still. Anyway, your content gives me hope and inspires to grow my newfound hobby. THANK YOU!
Ps. Greetings from Krakow, Poland!

thank you !!!! very simple and detailed !!! very good !!!

When we talk about a cinematic look, I‘d recommend to try and test long exposure times when shooting fast moving items like moving people. A bit of motion blur makes it looking really smooth and cinematic.

Wat a great video

hi....great video, but I have a question ( I am writing you from iTALY )........if I want to take some startrails and I am using an intervalometer....if I use a 20sec shutter speed....I must have a 2sec interval between shots.......but as you said I use have double the time of interval and it is 40sec.....is that possible ????

As a retired chartered engineer, I could not believe how complicated it is to do a simple time-lapse. It should be able to use the built-in interval timer or an external intervalometer to take a frame and write the frame to a movie file. It could be like the HDR mode where the camera could provide a simple way of quickly and easily producing a file without the user having to buy additional processing software. For more complicated scenarios, the time-lapse could be produced in the same manner as shown in this video.
The camera has all of the hardware and software modules to do this and all that it needs is some coordination software to facilitate this. Fujifilm are missing a trick on this one.
On doing some research, the X-A5 has "TIME-LAPSE MOVIE MODE" and there is little detail on it in the manual, but it appears to write movie files whose frames are controlled by the interval timer.
It seems that Fujifilm has already implemented this system but does not offer this facility of "proper cameras", why don't they remove the HDR, auto-exposure, auto focusing and other childish features as well?
I feel so enraged about this that I will contact Fujifilm suggesting that they add this feature to their cameras.

Your channel is a Godsend for Fuji users. I was wondering, what settings would you use to shoot a product being assembled?

Man thanks for this, it drove me nuts . And really thought that it wasn’t possible and only used my iPhone who doesn’t have any problem at all in this, maybe Fuji has a better improvement for this in the future which is not as clunky as it is because I love time lapse and I simply use the iPhone who doesn’t has any complications what so ever

The most comprehensive advice I've heard regarding timelapse photography in a single video for a long time.
Thank you for the hard work getting this together, I will certainly be giving this a try in the near future, confident of a good result :))

Excellent video great information!

I'm really looking forward to trying this. Question about beach sunsets -- have you tried a reverse grad filter at all? I've found that very useful for sunset stills.

Chris Question: on time laps on the Fuji (I have xt1) if I have 100 pictures on time laps after is finish would the camera process the 100 pictures in to a video?

Another question: I have being use xt1 and like to upgrade xt3 or xt5? , the later is little pricy but I like some of the fixtures like connect battery power via USB , can the xt3 use a external battery pack? I appreciate your effort on you videos demos, thank you

Excellent guidance, thank you so much.

I just discovered this! Really well done! Great explanations and examples!

Its an excellent & extensive tutorial on timellapse. Thanks a lot. But I have a doubt on the time duration calculation. You mentioned for 10 seconds time lapse video and it came 20 mins. Excellent. But for milkyway shoot where I use long exposure of 15-20 seconds, how I calculate the total duration i should wait for completion? Please suggest. Thanks.

You mentioned that your settings should all be in manual, however if I wanted to shoot the rotating stars from sunset to something like 5am, Wouldn't the shutter speed need to change periodically? How would I do this?

What about the shutter type? It is best to be set as MS or ME? Thank you.

Hello Chris, I have a question regarding time-lapses. I'm shooting a day to night time-lapse with the camera intervalometer, and I need to change the aperture, however, I'm using a third party lens, and cannot change it manually and the command dials don't work while I'm using this function. Is there a way that I can change the aperture with the command dials, while I'm using the Interval function? Btw I have a Fuji XT5
Thank you for your time.

4 minutes waisted in the beginning...

Chris, very good explanation, excellent video, I have the doubt if the manual shutter option on Fuji lenses (XF Zoom) is enough to be sure of working 100% manual?
Greetings from Bogotá.

it was great thank you

Yes watch the tides. This is how I got my phone ruined. It's in my pocket too late to realize the water got higher and a slight wave got me