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andyeverywhere
Hi, can anyone help me out on this?

I want to put a camera in a car, drive along and take a picture every ten metres..

Sortalike location-lapse photography

Any assistance awfully appreciated

andyeverywhere@yahoo.co.uk
donmac
Andy, at 36km/hr you will need to take a photo every second to get one every 10m. Even at half this speed, it means taking a photo every 2 secs. The camera needs to buffer and write these images, either to a very big and fast storage card, or direct to a computer, as certain models will allow. Even if the camera is capable of shooting continuously at speed it will very quickly get hot resulting in poor qua;ity images or even camera failure. I suggest you speak to the camera manufacturer before setting out on this venture.
Anyway, lets say you drive really slow or increase the distance to 100m say. You will need a camera that can be controlled by a PC. My Canon EOS300D, for instance, can be operated with software provided by Canon (although I dont recomend using a DSLR for this). You will need a laptop with a GPS reciever attached to it. And finally you will need to find somebody to write you a little program to take in the GPS position and operate the camera at a set distance. It would not be a particularly difficult program, (you could probably write it yourself ) if you have a friend with a little programming knowledge, they could write it for you very easily with Visual Basic. Did you know that the latest Microsoft Visual Basics is freely available to download.
Well, best of luck
Donmac
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jurnio
I've found software called CamReader.

This software enables you to store GPS coordinates of place the picture was made in an image using your GPS receiver logs.

GPS Longitude, Latitude, Altitude, TimeStamp tags will be stamps into the EXIF GPS metadatas. You can then easily locate your files using any GPS service, like Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/

Here is link:

http://www.picajet.com/download/CamReaderInstall.exe
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