Interval Mode to create Timelapses

[fab343]

Is there a possibilty with this hack to finally do Interval Mode Timelpases with a NX3000 camera?

[naums]

This should be possible quite easily, if you are somewhat technically inclined. You can put an autoexec.sh bash-script on to the camera and repeatedly issue a button-press event when a certain time has passed. See wiki.

Making this visible in the UI is an insane amount of work, no one in their right mind would do. So, be my guest.

[ge0rg]

I've written some scripts for timelapse control on the NX500, using the st key commands - that might also work on the earlier models. However, for the NX3000 we don't have any code execution abilities yet, as the firmware seems to be different ;)

Example script from NX500 that will run in a loop until you create a stop.flag file, making a picture every N seconds as specified on the commandline:

#!/bin/bash
rm /tmp/stop.flag

interval=${1:-30}000

while [ ! -f /tmp/stop.flag ] ; do
    st app bb lcd off

    # milliseconds to wait, left-filled with 0s for consistent string manipulation
    delta_ms=000$(($interval - ($(date +%s%N)/1000000 % $interval)))
    # position in the string to insert decimal point
    delta_pointpos=$((${#delta_ms}-3))
    # time in seconds with decimal point
    delta_s=${delta_ms::$delta_pointpos}.${delta_ms:$delta_pointpos}
    echo $delta_ms $delta_pointpos $delta_s
    sleep $delta_s
    st key push s1 ; st key click s2 ; st key release s1
done

st app bb lcd on

[ge0rg]

We don't know of any way to run our own code on the NX3000. Unfortunately. You can however use the micro USB port for a remote shutter: https://antibore.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/diy-remote-shutter-release-for-samsung-nx20-nx210-and-nx1000-cameras/

This could probably be re-created around an ESP-8266 to make a wifi shutter for older NX models.