The Brass City – Timelapse Experiment

I was recently going through some old drives when I discovered some footage that I shot in the downtown Waterbury area a few months ago. I shot this when I rented a Canon 5D for the first time and wanted to see what it was all about. Aside from absolutely falling in love with the camera, like so many already have, I made this brief timelapse whilst staying in a hotel that overlooks part of downtown and I-84. I completely forgot this footage.

It shames me to say I wasn’t even using this camera on the manual setting when I shot this, if I had, I would have had better control over the images. However they came back fairly well all things considered. Also note that the settings I used to import this were not optimal, hence the slight degradation in quality, however I will be sure to correct this when I do another timelapse with this camera.

I am considering going completely DSLR, and shooting EVERYTHING I do on them. Not to mention having a stills camera that would also be totally killer. The only consideration is the “state of play” as Phil Bloom put it – it is difficult to spend the money on a 5DmkII with the hopes that a 5DmkIII may very well relieve all of the drawbacks that come with DSLR’s. At the same rate, it is difficult to forego owning a camera altogether, especially when you are shooting events & projects for a living. Hopefully Canon is listening! Enjoy the video.