Hello everyone!
I want to give a small update to my project!
I'm quite excited with the project as there have been quite some improvements!
First of all the G1X is amazing!! What a great camera from 2012. The camera takes up to 12s and up to 1600ISO photos for recording the stars after sunset without any dark frame and there are no hot pixels at all (yes, now after weeks I found 1 hot pixel..)! And the noise is excellent. The quality on instagram is quite bad, the image seems quite noisy but already on the telegram channel where the quality is 4x higher the stars are well visible. And if I download the 4k DCI full resolution timelapse to my pc the quality is very impressive!
Since my parents now have a new router with up to 400(!) times the upload speed of the connection before, the uploads are now stable and do not crash as they did earlier this year. This means the next step is to open a YouTube channel where I can upload the videos in 4k for my own enjoyment.
In the last weeks I tried to figure out the best rawopint setting by reversing engineering the setting: increasing only one setting at a time and taking a sunset and then repeat. I find rawopint quite impressive and so I implemented some new functionality which I will share with you on the rawopint channel. I also have some new problems I could not figure out by reverse engineering the code.
Other than this, my dad agreed to make a hole in the wall and embedding a UV filter in the wall pointing in the same direction of the camera, for better quality. Because at the moment the reflections of my room at night are quite disturbing and an UV filter obviously is a clearer glass than the old dirty windows.
Also a new idea would be to integrate some kind of sonification of the timelapse since some people suggested I should add a background sound... But this would be completely new project. The problem is that if I use always the same song of all the time-lapse it would be kind of disturbing as the atmosphere may change drastically between one day and the other but also during one timelapse it may change too much. The Idea would bee that different parts of the frame represent one instrument (I think I would choose more a classical approach
) and then according to changes in brightness, color and saturation the loudness and tone tone pitch should change accordingly. The problem is that the changes somehow have to be harmonic, otherwise it is destroying your ears.
I'm a little concerned about the sun shining directly into the camera. This has not been the case up to now. But the sun could shine directly into the camera in the winter months, when she is low and only in the sunrise timelapse. Unfortunately the ND filter does not kick in with the rawopint script, even though the script works fine (it does the jump in ev when the nd filter should kick in)
