CHDK Projects

Canon A470 with CHDK or: "What a cheap 90€ camera is actually able to do"

Fast Shutter Speed

Both pictures taken with shutter speed of 1/12500s
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Slow Shutter Speed

Pictures taken with shutter speed of 64s
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Through Telescope - manual Focus/Exposure/USB-Remote

Pictures taken with shutter speed of 1/8s
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Landscape - manual Focus

No postprocessing applied!
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Lightning - motion Detection, with manual Focus, Exposure, ISO

Pictures taken with shutter speed of 4s, Focus to infinity, iso value of 20 to 40.
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Daytime Timelapse Movie

640x480 (1.1 MB) 960x720 (4.4 MB) 1440x1080 (9.5 MB)
40 minutes of real time -- compressed into 15 seconds
384 images were shot. 5 seconds between each.
*requires DivX codec*

640x480 (6.2 MB) 960x720 (23.6 MB) 1440x1080 (47.5 MB)
180 minutes of real time -- compressed into 66 seconds
1674 images were shot. 5 seconds between each.
*requires DivX codec*

1440x1080 (15.1 MB)
130 minutes of real time -- compressed into 21 seconds
781 images were shot. 10 seconds between each.
The clouds within the lower layer move in East direction,
while the upper layer moves North.
*requires DivX codec*

1440x1080 (97.4 MB)
296 minutes of real time -- compressed into 136 seconds
2728 images were shot. 5 seconds between each.
*requires DivX codec*

Nighttime Timelapse Movie

640x480 (0.9 MB) 960x720 (3.7 MB) 1440x1080 (7.5 MB)
280 minutes of real time -- compressed into 10 seconds
195 images were shot. 40 seconds shutter open, 45 seconds pause, repeat.
*requires DivX codec*

All videos were encoded with VirtualDub,
together with the free version of DivX codec.

VirtualDub takes continuously numbered image files as input,
which then can be processed like any other video file.

Since my cam (i think most others do this too) only records 2000 images into one folder,
then starts numbering files from 1 in another folder again,
i had to do some serious renaming (I have timelapses with over 12.000 images).

For this, I coded a small tool, which renames files.
It starts in its current directory, gathering ALL files in ALL subdirectories.
After scanning, it sorts the files by FULL PATH (my cam numbers its folders too),
Then renames/moves all files into its current directory, correctly numbered from 1 to X.

You may get it here. Right click-> Save as...

Just copy it into the directory you want to renumber files in, and start it with:
java -jar renamer.jar 5
The 5 is for total number length: 00001, 00002 etc...
BE SURE TO START IT FROM THE RIGHT DIRECTORY! Every file within this folder, and below, will be renamed!

You might need to install Java, which is available here. (JRE)