Comments on: How To Create A Time Lapse Electric Dolly

By: Johannes Reitter

Johannes Reitter — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:28:10 +0000

WOW! I love this one … I’d like to build one myself.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:56:50 +0000

Hi,

can someone tell me how the orange film burn out effect he has to transition between two shoots. I am searching something like this for Final Cut Express!

The clip is awesome.

By: Daniel Bird

Daniel Bird — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:51:20 +0000

He talks about the dolly in the description on vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/16533808 and links to more photos of the dolly here: http://twoa.lima-city.de/dolly.html

By: Shane Parker

Shane Parker — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:51:45 +0000

@Nathan: He could be shooting with a macro adapter of some sort also.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:49:17 +0000

@Nathan: He is probably shooting with a semi-wide angle lens around F4 or higher.

By: Nathan O'Kane

Nathan O'Kane — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:30:15 +0000

Beautiful clips. Makes me want to build one! Question! I noticed they were getting really close to objects in (1:19-1:30) and they had so much DoF. Sorry this is such a noob question, but how did they do that? high ƒ#? a zoom with a high ƒ# making it look like they are close?

Thanks!

By: GJ

GJ — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:07:08 +0000

Haha, I actually do the same thing, but not for timelapse, just for travelling. Me and the thing on the set :

http://www.indabuz.com/content/photo/cant-fight-this-feeling-installation-du-glidetrack-avec-gj-25567.jpg

Making-of here, at 7:40 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzssN0tT1o

By: Steven Clark

Steven Clark — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:34:05 +0000

Looks great… but could he make another one that actually shows how to make a DIY Electric Dolly?

Not sure I could make one just off the top of my head. What components… difficulties, opportunities, etc?