I did see that, Skywalker, thank you! Sorry--I have been out of town last week.
We demoed the A570IS running your script (the updated version) today as a matter of fact, with the demolition of a building: Not a valid vimeo URL
Both youtube and vimeo added a nasty moire on the brick building when they transcoded it, the original, rendered out of lightroom 4, doesn't have that.
At any rate, some things I learned from today:
1) your script works, is easy to use, and runs GREAT! for today's shoot, I set it up the night before, left it in place, and just told it to start snapping at 6:30 AM. When I finally got to work at 8, I checked on it, and it was snapping away happily.
2) the eye-fi card doesn't seem to download the photos while the script is running. not sure if I can get around this to make a truly 'endless' card or not.
This was shot indoors through a window. It worked so well, actually, that we changed the design to bring the whole camera system INDOORS! There is an out-of-the-way window with a clear view of the construction site right above where we were going to put the external enclosure. Bringing it indoors lets lots of amazing things happen. 1) I can use a UPS. 2) I don't even NEED the eye-fi card; I can just run up there and swap SD cards every month or so. 3) I can probably go with a bit nicer camera since I don't feel so much like I'm going to ultimately kill it with the weather.
The demo video has glare because I simply shot with a tripod and didn't do anything to attenuate glare. I plan to use a suction-cup window mount, blacken the camera with gaffe tape, and drape a black shade behind the camera to get rid of most of the glare we saw in this video.
Without an external awning/shade of some sort, I expect glare to be more of a concern than it was in the enclosure, which had a 3" bill on the top and sides to shade the lens from glare, but it should still be manageable.
I think I'd like to find a camera with at least a 27-28mm (35mm equiv) field of view--the A270IS is only 35mm, and it seems all the A series powershots are that way. When some funds become available next week, I might do like a Powershot S90. Camera is black already, compact, sharp, wide angle lens, uses the 1/1.7" sensor, etc, etc. I think it will work as a great replacement to a true DSLR setup, with nearly the same image quality when all is said and done.
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What would be the best exposure settings to help minimize flicker in the final video? I don't want it to vary too much if possible between slightly differently lighted scenes (if some clouds roll by, etc) and if it auto-meters each shot, flickr could become an issue. On the other hand, I can't really do full manual exposure either, since it would change on a bright sunny day versus a day we're having a massive storm. I'm all ears as far as feedback on what some good settings are for exposure. until then I'll just use program mode and let the camera meter things every shot.
I do plan on doing manual focus so it's not having to refocus every time it takes a shot (and if there happens to get a spot on the window, I don't want it to AF to that by mistake) but anything else I'd love some feedback from the gallery. I don't think the test video came out too bad using standard settings (even autofocus) but I want to optimise this as best I can.
