“You would also want to shoot on fully manual settings. If you shoot on
auto, changing light and varying distances from objects will ruin the
timelapse.”
Rob,
That would be a yes and no. Yes on full auto that would be true. However, depending on lighting conditions (i.e. sunrise to sunset and reverse) you would want to use either aperture priority or shutter priority. Also, if there is any man-made lighting around or drastically changing lighting conditions AWB is also an auto setting which can be utilized. Full manual is great for day or night shots with fairly constant lighting.
Yes also to the motorized tripod/dolly setup and intervalometer/timer remote control for getting motion in your time-lapse scene. You can do it all manually (good luck with that) with an old school shutter release and a dolly track with the interval spacing marked off for you to move the rig during the time between the image processing. You’ll have to be ‘mechanically’ proficient and move like clockwork for hours at a time to get a good run doing it all by hand.
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