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Hi Arty,

Do you think you are getting close to a release version? The tantalising glimpses of new features are making your customers most expectant

Mike.

For shooting timelapse the intervalometer functions come pretty handy, but the limit of 999 shots occasioally might be a show stopper.

Maybe someone already has suggested it (sorry for not reading all posts, at least I used the search and didn't find it  ) but how if you add a setting for 000 shots which would cause the Promote to take an infinite number of picures?

Oh, and while we are at it: I wish one could have shutter speeds changed over a certain period of time even in timelapse mode. To become the hero of timelapsers increments should be less then 1 EV, hehe.

Keep up the good work!
Jürgen

I wouldn't sweat a Mac version. I had great success running the updater from my BootCamp partition. Even under VMWare Fusion, so there wasn't even a need to reboot my Mac. The USB communication went through just fine, and the Promote hasn't crashed or hung at all.

The Preview in particular is super-welcome addition. It displays in very low-tech interface, but it's functional. Would probably better to swap the setting with the M-Up, putting it in the very last row, and maybe even inverted (like a status bar). Then it would be more clear that this is not an actual setting I can change, but just a display... It doesn't even need a label, I think, without the leading "Seq:" there would be enough room to have as many dots as exposures.
At least, it will now Beep out invalid EV ranges before I get started shooting, and that's a very good thing.

Here's a blurry screenshot:

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We look into having those delivered from our supplier in January - unfortunately, no earlier date is available. I will make sure to let everybody know as soon as we have them!

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Sounds great 
Just for clarification:
Time-Lapsers are encountered with greatest difficulties when capturing periods from daylight to darkness or vice versa. What manual exposure mode for HDRers is a controllable exposure curve to Time-lapsers. Unfortunately there is yet  no device or software available that would allow a constant change of exposure in small increments over a defineable and "long" period.

In order to avoid any flicker, shutter speeds (and/or aperture) should vary in increments of 1/32 EV

And I am sure you would make even more people happy when the Promote would come with a pouch that could also keep both cables (preferably while they stay plugged). Today I figured out that one could accidentally power on the Promote when the cable is stored in the lid.

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Thanks, Sam! Let's see if somebody comes up with an offer. Although the idea of running it from BootCamp seems tempting.

Thank you for the suggestion Arty, but that shows I hadn't described the goal correctly

1. Indeed there is no need for HDR in timelapses.

2. Autoexposure may work in some cases but in many cases it won't. Chances are obstacles, movement, birds, or whatever can cause the camera to "jump" more or less EVs and spoil a complete shoot.

What timelpasers wish for is a device that would allow to start a shoot say 1 hour before sunset and end 1 hour after sunset. During that time take an image every 3 seconds but change exposure values (let's say from -3 EV to +3 EV just as an example) consecutively but in increments of 1/32 EV to avoid any flicker in the final film. (20 pics/min = 1200/hour = 2400 images total with varying EV from -3 to +3 in 192 steps)

Of course one would have to find out the correct settings by some experiments but at least one would get a predictable and a flickerfree result.

Right now there are just some DIY approaches from people using motorised rigs to turn the aperture ring very, very slowly.

Best
Jürgen

Glad to see, we're getting closer
Let me know, when you're moving from TO_THINK to LETs_TRY and I'll try to give you some helping hands
Of course I'm always ready to dicuss upcoming issues.

Thanks again
Jürgen