The Brinno TLC200 Pro camera is awesome for beginners and experts in time lapse as it has a great setup that can be used by anyone. Since the adoption of the unprecedended Brinno Proprietary HDR sensor and the extraordinary Long exposure capabilities. You can easily explore the power and speed in generating eye catching HDR time lapse videos and upload / share on the youtube just on the field with no Laptop or PC post processing back home.
But it takes little attentions if you want to be a hero,
Here are the How to for various environments on Brinno TLC200 Pro: There are actaully 3 majors parameters : Scene, Frame rate and Time interval
and Don’t forget to publish your Galaxies time lapse videos on youtube…just like this one
The super long battery life make Brinno TLC200 Pro the best Project cam e,g Wedding, Event, Seminar, Hiking, biking
Brinno TLC 200 Pro literatelly can live up to 45 days without changing the battery
Is this making any sense here? Instant and time lapse camera ? HDR video? Does it rock?
Let me put in this way:
“Time lapse camera” means this camera is capable of shooting at your specified “time interva”, e.g taking photo every 10 sec or 3 sec or even 4 photos per second.
“Instant video” means once you finished the shooting, it is actuallly a AVI movie file insted of a bunch of photos which requring lots of video editting and post processing work.
Here is the HDR comparison:
“HDR” indicates this Brinno TLC200 Pro has a pretty wide dynamic range =115dB. Most of DSLR has only 65dB.
Warpping up, The Brinno TLC200 pro is so called ” the time lapse camera that can creates the Instant HDR time lapse video at any light!
The POV Travel time lapse camera is supposed to be a SAFER market segment for camera manufactures to stay tuned without the emerging smartphones threats.
It’s been everywhere to hire a Construction camera service company to set up DSLR cameras, WiFi and record the construction job site daily images, perhaps a remote monitoring and Cloud storage if affordable.
I’m personally preferring a much more “less luxury “way in documenting related construction site videos and images.
We summarizes key issues to explain why we think DSLR is not necessarily the best solution for the On site Construction cameras.
The #1 thinking is “Is it really necessary to record the construction site by DSLR”?
The purchase cost or rental cost is one thing. What really matters is the DSLR complicated camera setup, settings for time lapse video and it also difficult to ask the job site works to take over. So you may foot the service company bills monthly or try to train your job site people to operate the DSLR.
Learned about the limited Shutter life of DSLR? It seems that the average statistic shutter life is around 100,000 shots. 100k shots is probably a big number for ordinary photo shots but it can be “toasted” so easily by the time lapse mode. Here is a good example: taking photos every 1 min then 1×60 min x24 hrs=1,440 shots per Day, Your DSLR will just burst in 69.44 days (100,000 divided by 1,440) which is only TWO Months!
My advice is
DO NOT use DSLR for Construction camera recording. It’s too expensive to pay the service companies , too hard for the job site workers to use and can on;y work for Two months.
Lesson learned: Will you drive your Ferrari from NYC to LA?
2nd thinking: Is there any other in expensive and easy to use solutions for the Construction job site workers?
There are some rugged and Point of View cameras like GoPro or Brinno to be a smarter choices for the construction sites. These POVs are all features like
Rugged with water proof cases
Wide angel lens (>120 degrees, Field of View)
Default external DC power input ( ensure long term shooting)
Time lapse video Photography ( you can set up the camera by different Time intervals, say taking one photo every 1 minute )
GoPro is, however, little constrained by not be able to DC IN if wearing the water proof case. I can fix this by many DIY water proof box.
What GoPro consistently bothers me is the Night shots capabilities.
The Brinno camera is much better at low light photography. ( which is essential at the construction sites: Moonless Night Shots)
Here is the Quick comparison in night shots ( GoPro Hero 3 Black vs Brinno)
Lessons learned:Dark Knightmakes the difference to protect your properties
WiFi?
Brinno Construction camera for not providing WiFi for Construction job site remote monitoring was a big blemish.
But It’s cool now by using the WiFi Eye Fi card Pro X2 ( only Pro X2, not Mobi)
3 steps DIY Wifi construction camera here if using Eye Fi card + Brinno TLC200:
step 0: Ttake out the original SD card from the Brinno TLC200
Step 0.5: insert the Eye Fi SD cardS
3 steps to be WiFi:
DC IN thru Micro USB on Brinno TLC200 ( The Brinno Camea is said to live up to 78 days by batteries but insert your DC IN if using with Eye Fi card)
Download and Upgrade the latest Firmware from Brinno web site ( 1.02.3 or later for TLC200 and TLC200 f1.2 including BCC 100) ( version 1.01.4 or later for TLC200 Pro)
Set up the “timer” to specify your transmission period
More info
Enjoy your Job site workers DIY Wi Fi Construction cameras!
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