A timelapse camera controller for Raspberry Pi. Testet with Canon EOS 600D and Canon EOS 6D (should work with any camera supported by gphoto2 with minor tweaks), with an optional UI and controls on the Adafruit LCD Pi plate.
rpi-timelapse uses imagemagick. To install these dependencies on your pi:
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
and for gphoto2 see https://github.com/gonzalo/gphoto2-updater/
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gonzalo/gphoto2-updater/master/gphoto2-updater.sh && chmod +x gphoto2-updater.sh && sudo ./gphoto2-updater.sh
for the 16x2 character lcd + keypad
sudo apt-get install i2c-tools
test the connection with
sudo i2cdetect -y 0 (if you are using a version 1 Raspberry Pi)
sudo i2cdetect -y 1 (if you are using a version 2 Raspberry Pi)
and enable the GPIO's with
sudo raspi-config
and follow the instructions in section A7
python tl.py
Follow the instructions at http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi/init-script using timelapse file from this repo instead of lcd.
Here's how to post process the image frames (on Linux, can be run on the Pi itself, but faster on desktop).
for a in *; do echo $a;/usr/bin/mogrify -auto-gamma $a;done
Be careful with auto-gamma - it works extremely well for sunset / sunrise but can make very dark areas of the scene very noisy.
ffmpeg -r 18 -q:v 2 -start_number XXXX -i IMG_%d.JPG output.mp4