A Night in Koh Madsum

"Koh Madsum" Sunset and Starry sky time lapse movie with Olympus OM-D E-M5 and 12-40mm f2.8 Pro

It is timelapse movie of dawn and stars in Koh Madsum. Koh Madsum is south from Koh Samui and it takes 20 minutes from the pier at Samui to get there. Very nice place as it is completely isolated. 

Those pictures were taken by Olympus OM-D E-M5 with 12-40mm pro lens. I also used automatic shutter release device that I bought at amazon.

Conditions for each situations are;

Dawn)

0:00 to 0:40

SCN mode

Force MF

Starry sky 1)

0:40 to 1:15

Manual mode

ISO 3200 / f2.8 / SS 8 sec / Shutter interval 12 sec

Manual Focus

Starry sky 2)

1:15 to last

Manual mode

ISO 3200 / f2.8 / SS 5 sec / Shutter interval 8 sec

Manual Focus

Taking a sunset continuously is quit difficult as the condition gradually changes. So I use SCN Landscape or iAuto mode to follow these changes. One important thing is that you'd better use Force MF mode. Force MF function comes with Olympus Pro lens. It is very nice function for me. Originally in SCN Landscape or iAuto mode, you cannot use MF but you can use MF with Pro lens! With AF, the camera lose focus point  and it takes so long time to focus. It could be more than shutter interval. Therefore you should use MF for taking sunset time lapse.

I usually use Aperture for development, Time Lapse Assembler for making timelapse movie and iMovie for editing movie.