Time Lapse Camera

[Billyston18]

Hello Everyone and thank you for the very warm welcome to the forum, I am here to ask an extremely amateur question!

I am looking specifically for a time lapse camera only. The idea being the camera does the whole timelapse function without me having to attach it to a computer. The aim is to timelapse some artwork I am creating but in a place where it would be very inconvenient to take my computer (especially as I do not have a laptop).
What I need for the camera would be

• shot intervals of around 3 seconds (less would be fine as I can always speed up the video when editing it)
• High resolution HD images of at least 1080
• It would turn images to video so I would only need to edit the video segments together, rather than working with thousands of images
• Manual focus (autofocus, light adjustment etc etc would generally ruin the video)
• Basically a camera (hopefully cheap but I am guessing this may not be the case) that can just record timelapse as video files ready for me to video edit

If this is too much to ask I would of course be ok to use a video camera and just speed up the files but I really am finding it hard to find anything like this. It seems like such a big market that has nothing in it. I really do not want to end up buying a top of the range camera when I am only going to use it for one thing.

I did initially look at this camera on amazon (I cant post links so here is the title) -

'Campark® 4k Wifi Ultra HD Waterproof Sports Action Camera Time Lapse and Slow Motion Video Recording (Black)'
As you can see it is a cheaper knock off to the gopro series but then I started thinking does it have manual focus, could not find any information and noticed it had a wide angle lens which does not really suit me. The thing I am looking for is to do time lapse videos similar to what 'Dark Design Graphics' does on youtube (once again I can't post links so just search for it if you want) I asked them how they did it and Alasdair replied that he uses a webcam connected to his computer, very informatively and a really nice guy but just doesn't help me for what I am looking for.

Either way I am sure this is a huge post and a very amateur question but any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[BrentC]

Olympus will do everything you want on any of the EM cameras. You can pick up a used EM10mkii pretty cheap. Here is a video how to setup.

 

[TCampbell]

While you can capture the "frames" with any camera (and make the movie w/a computer) only some cameras have the ability to assemble the frames into a movie in the camera itself (no computer needed).

Here's a video showing a Canon EOS Rebel T7i. Be careful with camera selection as not _every_ camera has the ability to assemble the frames into a movie. In the Rebel series, the T7i and the SL2 have this built-in.