Hey everyone, So i've had my Canon 200d a couple of years now but i'm still a bit rusty with it as i don't really get out as much as id like with it. Im really into astrophotography and taking photos of the milky way, which i feel i'm pretty confident at doing now, but i've seen 100s of videos and time lapses of other photographers shooting the milky way in time lapse mode. I've searched the internet ALOT and i cant figure out how to get the shutter speed slow enough on my 200D in time lapse mode to shoot the stars or even in low light. The lowest shutter speed that seems to be available in this time lapse mode is 1/30, which is obviously nowhere near slow enough to what i need for astro, which is about 20 second shutter speed. Is there any way at all of doing this that i just cant see in the settings? any help on this would be massively appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mick.
What you want to do is use an interval timer to trigger the shutter ever X seconds and then created a video of the images in post production. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...MI_7Hjj6386AIVxkXVCh2yygjwEAQYASABEgLeQvD_BwE I'm sure there are off brand options but something like this is the idea.
Thanks for the quick reply!! I’m guessing that the 200d just doesn’t have the capacity to go slower than 1/30 shutter speed in the time lapse mode. appreciate the help.
I'll be honest this is a new feature so I am not sure what its restrictions are without digging into it a bit, but it does look like there is an interval timer built in that will take x shots at a defined interval. https://camerajabber.com/shoot-timelapse-canon-eos-200d-rebel-sl2/ I am not sure why there would be a restriction on the camera to not take an exposure below 1/30 of a sec. What is the interval frequency you have set? I could see an issue if you have a 30 sec exposure every 30 seconds you do not have enough time for the camera to expose and process and be ready to shoot again.
Ok so the manual does define shooting speed ranges at different frame rates. Which explains you 1/30 of a second. I do not think they should have tied time lapse into their video shooting frame rate limitations because it is simply stitching images together and should be dependent on the exposure and the interval between them. In other words when they tied this feature into the limitations of video in general they did not think about users who wanted long exposure. As I noted all is not lost, you can shoot a long exposure manually and trigger with a remote that includes an interval timer and not use the built in auto mode. You will just have to use software to stitch the images together.
