"Adrift" by Simon Christen scores 1.7 million views on Vimeo

Congratulations to Simon Christen on 1.7 million views and 16k+ likes for his gorgeous time-lapse "Adrift."

Whether or not you've also spent countless hours alone on mountain tops trying to get a great shot, you'll appreciate the lengths he went to in order to get this amazing footage. On Adrift's vimeo page Simon writes: The weather conditions have to be just right for the fog to glide over the hills and under the bridge. I developed a system for trying to guess when to make the drive out to shoot, which involved checking the weather forecast, satellite images and webcams multiple times a day. For about 2 years, if the weather looked promising, I would set my alarm to 5am, recheck the webcams, and then set off on the 45-minute drive to the Marin Headlands.

Simon is one of many cinematographers who use GBDeflicker in post-production workflow. He wrote to us recently: The post processing on Adrift was extremely time consuming and I used a lot of different tools to get to the final product. In one of my last stages I used GBDeflicker to take care of the last little flicker fixes. I have found it to work really well.



Here a link to Adrift on Vimeo. We look forward to seeing what Simon does next!

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Golden light in "Midnight Sun" by Joe Capra

For "Midnight Sun", Joe Capra traveled around Iceland shooting time-lapse for an arduous 17 days - which from his description didn't involve much sleep - and in the process captured over 38,000 images. The work has beautiful sequences of the arctic summer's golden light. We're excited to see that "Midnight Sun" is a Vimeo Staff Pick and has passed 2 million views. For another project, Joe shot time-lapse on location in Rio for a major electronics manufacturer. A compilation video from his trip titled "Rio" features spectacular time-lapse of the cityscape.

Joe uses GBDeflicker in his post-production workflow. According to Joe, "I use GBDeflicker on everything! Well, not EVERY shot, but I have used it on everything I have shot that needed de-flickering. It was used on shots in Midnight Sun and also my new Rio video. It is definitely a must have tool for any time-lapse shooter."







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New Feature: Eliminate flicker with Aperture Ramping

We're pleased to announce a major new feature in GBTimelapse called Aperture Ramping. This feature is for more advanced users, and yields stunning results. If you already own GBTimelapse, just download and install this new release. If you don't own it yet, please download and run the free trial.

Eliminate flicker with Aperture Ramping in GBTimelapse:

The best way totally eliminate time-lapse flicker is to use a manual lens. That’s right, forget the automatic Canon EF lenses and use a manual focus and manual iris “cine” lens with an iris ring gear. Then as the light changes, GBTimelapse can smoothly ramp the aperture using a stepper motor to drive the iris ring gear.

The first three clips in this demo video were shot this way - bulb ramping PLUS aperture ramping. A Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 with the Duclos Lens Cine-Mod was used for the first three sunset clips.

The Lens:

Here are two possible lens choices. On the left is a Rokinon/Samyang 24mm cine lens and on the right is a much higher quality Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 . Both lenses are “de-clicked” and have iris ring gears. The Zeiss/Duclos is actually a Nikon lens with Canon mount. 

The Stepper:

You can use just about any stepper with an industry standard 32 pitch (0.8 mod) drive gear. One choice is to use a Berkey focus motor with a rail mount and worm gear reducer.

Add Movement:

GBTimelapse is designed to send aperture stepper commands to an Arduino based device. The first such compatible device is the eMotimo TB3 (both orange and black models). At left is a stepper mounted on a 15-mm rail attached to an eMotimo TB3.

The aperture stepper wiring connects to the eMotimo “aux step motor”.

Gears engaged!

Here’s a close up showing the stepper drive gear engaged with a Rokinon lens on a 5D Mk II.

The Full Setup:

The setup is completed by connecting the camera shutter and PC/flash to the eMotimo camera and “i/o port” connectors. Two USB cables connect the camera and eMotimo to the computer running GBTimelapse.















Here's a short video clip showing the stepper motor in action...