Video: Stop motion on any m-4/3 or SLR?

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Benjamin Marks

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Does anyone know whether any of the current crop of DLSRs (Canon, Nikon) and/or m-4/3 cameras that offer video, also offer the ability to take one image at a time to do stop-motion animation?

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The corpse bride was shot on EOS-1DIIs with nikon lenses. Any camera can take one image at a time, but I'm not aware of any that automatically animate it for you
 
For stop motion animation, you are most likely going to need a remote shutter release. This will allow you trip the shutter, change your animation and trip the shutter again without touching the camera. A intervalometer is a timed shutter release system which allows you to trip the shutter over a predetermined time for example 5 shots per minute. I cannot see this as being very useful for stop-motion and is more a tool for time-lapse photography. A system that couples to a laptop as mentioned above would be ideal and if i remember that is what they used in corpsebride. this will allow you view the shot in your laptop with out disturbing your animation. Once you have taken your sequence then open it up in Quicktime pro as a image sequence and export to your particular format. Since most formats are now 16:9 native then it might useful to remember to frame for widescreen when your composing your shot.

Hope this helps
 
The Nikon D60 has a stop motion function that creates an animation of a sequence of still pictures. It doesn't offer continuous video though..
 
Make sure you have a good, heavy tripod, perhaps even secured to the ground, or it will move and you'll have framing problems!!!
 
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