What's the longest period of time over which a time lapse film has been recorded?
Time lapse photography can create some pretty impressive visuals. I think we mostly see time-lapse photography in non-fictional works about nature, plants, or the stars. But sometimes it's used in horror (decay), science fiction, or simply to show the audience that time is passing quickly as an alternative to a montage. A filmmaker might show a day passing really quickly to give a vague sense of anxiety. Or a vampire/horror flick might show the rapid change of day into night to signal impending doom.
That makes me wonder, what is the longest known period over which time-lapsed filming has been performed?
I'm just curious because its difficult for humans to totally predict the visual effects of the passage of massive amounts of time. What does the longest known segment of time-lapse look like?
Best Answer
While it isn't an epic long film, there is a 16 second video on youtube that documents the changes in the skyline of Shijnuku (One of the wards of Tokyo, Japan) over a 35 year period. The video itself is basically stitched together photographs over a period of 35 years from the same spot.
The longest capture from space documents two orbits of the ISS around the earth, which equates to 180 minutes, done in 21,375 images that are condensed into a 15 (ish) minute video.
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What is the longest time lapse?
Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut with the European Space Agency, recorded the longest continual timelapse of Earth from space, made with images taken aboard the International Space Station. In just 15 minutes, viewers sore over the Earth as it changes from day to night, glimpsing locations all over the world.How long does it take to film a timelapse?
20 minutes of filming = 10 seconds of 24 FPS video. 30 seconds: Changing weather, shadows moving, Milky Way core. 2 hours of filming = 10 seconds of 24 FPS video. Very long intervals: Growing plants, construction (buildings, ships, etc.), multi-day timelapses.What is camera time lapse?
Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique in which a photographer will take a series of still images of the same frame at regular intervals over a period of time, then play through the entire sequence rapidly.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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