Thank you for this great information.
I’m not an experienced photographer and have difficulty with some of terms, including the difference between interval and bracket as well as “stop” increment. My current understanding is that brackets are a series of pictures (in this case 9) with different exposure values. Intervals are a set of pictures at preset delays between pictures.
Kasper tried to explain “stop” jumps to me. I put my understanding below.
In the camera API, there is a table for shutterspeed and for ISO
The shutter speed table looks like this:
I think the ISO is going to be automatic and we can only set the shutter speed if we set the precise shutterspeed value.
For the exposure of the brackets, picture 1-9, would something like this work?
- 1/25000
- 1/4000
- 1/800
- 1/160
- 1/25
- 1/3
- 1.3 seconds
- 8 seconds
- 60 seconds
Time between each picture of the bracket is as low as possible, which is 1 second for dual-fisheye images.
Photographer will need to stitch the JPEG images in post-production using something like PTGui
I’m assuming that the exposure for the next interval “set” is the same.
I think there are people on this forum that are good programmers, but not expert photographers. To improve the plug-ins, the programmers need to get more information from the photographers that are facing real-world usage problems. I believe that input from people like you will push the plug-in development forward. Thanks.
Out of curiosity, what are you doing with the HDR timelapse? Are you making a video of a sunset or the clouds moving? Does your audience view it in a headset or online in a web browser? Or, maybe some other viewing experience?