Portland Japanese Gardens + Scripting Language

Liz and I went up to the Japanese gardens today. It was over 80 degrees up there! Whew!!!

I finished a new script in uBasic for my Canon A640. This one shoots a number of pictures, moves the focus in a specified increment (shooting a picture at each step), and then shoots another round of pictures at a second (more distant) focus. It allows for focus control while shooting time lapse.

UBASIC CANON A640 FOCUS A TO B SCRIPT
(not in proper script format)

@title Focus Shift (Set Focus Manual)
@param a Hold On Initial (frames)
@default a 24
@param b Focus Shift (mm)
@default b 1
@param c Hold On Final (frames)
@default c 24
@param d Focus Frames
@default d 48

if a<1 then let a=1 if b<1 then let b=1 if c<1 then let c=1 if d<1 then let d=1 q=a+c+d get_focus f for s= 1 to a print "Pic", s, "of", q, "Focus", f; "mm" shoot next s g=f for s= 1 to d if g<62 then let g=62 if g>65535 then let g=65535
g=g+b
print “Pic”, a+s, “of”, q,”Focus”, g; “mm”
set_focus g
shoot

next s

for s= 1 to c
print “Pic”, a+d+s, “of”, q, “Focus”, g; “mm”
shoot
next s

end

I also shot quite a bit with my HV20 so the video below is mostly live action video, not scripted time lapse.

There are four scripted time lapse shots. The first shot is one of them. Maybe yall can pick out the other three.

I wrote the little song this afternoon.

Japanese Gardens

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