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    Cheap interval photography?

    Yes, I'm willing to give away a free lunch in Umea in exchange for an ingenious solution to my problem! I'll start looking for a camera that can be activated electronically (to keep mechanics out of the equation). It will be important to develop a cheap and simple solution since I plan to build...
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    Cheap interval photography?

    Hello Skogsgurra and good to hear that you are visiting Norrland soon! I am working as a hydrologist at Umea university, but I am doing research on both the Pite and Vindel rivers. Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot of field work going on during the winter season so I don't travel to Pitea...
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    Cheap interval photography?

    Hi again and thank you all for your suggestions! I have seen Phillip Torrone's description of a hacked digital camera and I think it seems promising. However, the timer he uses (555) seems a bit inaccurate for my long exposure intervals, and if you want the shots to be taken at noon each day you...
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    Cheap interval photography?

    I need to trigger a camera at a remote location once every 24 hrs to collect images for a stream restoration project in northern Sweden. Can this be done using a very inexpensive camera by connecting it to an alarm clock or a timer? It will be left in the field unattended (but hidden in a bird...
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    High-resolution tracking

    I am working on a project to map river currents in northern Sweden and need a device that allows the position of a small float to be tracked with sub-meter accuracy. The idea is to let the float travel downstream for a few hundred meters and continuously (at least once a second)track its...

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