acidrain
Executive Member
Hi all,
Ok so long story short, I am wanting to do a long time lapse for a job, from start to finish, in Namibia. The expected duration of the job will be 3 days of which the GoPro will be continuously taking photos throughout the duration.
The camera will be mounted on a pole extending 3m outwards from the building approximately 9 floors off the ground so physically getting to the device, without messing with the mounting will be impossible.
Powering it for the duration won't be a problem as I've read the gopro can be powered through USB while taking photos so a long usb connected to a charger is easy enough to overcome this. The problem however is the SD capacity. It is a GoPro3 Silver ( not the 3+ ) which apparently only supports a 32GB card so I will soon run out of space before the time period ( thinking either 1 shot every 30s or 60s, but preferably 30s to create a smoother time lapse ).
Question is, can I use the USB cable to connect to the gopro and copy over the files while it's still taking photo's, thereby freeing up space so it can continue or is there a solution to move the files off the sd card while it is still operating? I would preferably not want to remove the mount because that will disturb the original framing of the video.
Hopefully someone out there has accomplished a time lapse of this extent and can assist.
Ok so long story short, I am wanting to do a long time lapse for a job, from start to finish, in Namibia. The expected duration of the job will be 3 days of which the GoPro will be continuously taking photos throughout the duration.
The camera will be mounted on a pole extending 3m outwards from the building approximately 9 floors off the ground so physically getting to the device, without messing with the mounting will be impossible.
Powering it for the duration won't be a problem as I've read the gopro can be powered through USB while taking photos so a long usb connected to a charger is easy enough to overcome this. The problem however is the SD capacity. It is a GoPro3 Silver ( not the 3+ ) which apparently only supports a 32GB card so I will soon run out of space before the time period ( thinking either 1 shot every 30s or 60s, but preferably 30s to create a smoother time lapse ).
Question is, can I use the USB cable to connect to the gopro and copy over the files while it's still taking photo's, thereby freeing up space so it can continue or is there a solution to move the files off the sd card while it is still operating? I would preferably not want to remove the mount because that will disturb the original framing of the video.
Hopefully someone out there has accomplished a time lapse of this extent and can assist.