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Posted: Sun Apr 7th, 2019 07:41
 
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Low to High tide is just over 6 hours and the first hour after low and before high is considered "dead water" so the noticeable movement is 4 hours long.

As a boat owner in the Thames estuary, I am well familiar with the issue of people being cut off by the tide which races in behind you if you are unaware of the nature of the mudflats.

We even have an RNLI hovercraft to deal with the problem! :smilesmall:



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jk wrote:
Robert,
The tidal rate of change is not linear.
See here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_twelfths

Therefore you need to maybe change rate to a slower frame for first and last two hours of the time but in the middle 8 hours you need a faster frame to show the change.

Correction of my post above after reading Chris' post.

High tide to high tide is 12 hours. High to low is only 6 hours.  
Therefore for best capture you need low frame rate 0-1 hr after High tide (HW) as rate of change is low,  then 2-5hrs after HW up frame rate to match increased change of tidal flow/rise.  5-6hrs after HW and one hour before low water change frame rate back down to similar to first hour after high water.

Chris are you familiar with the mud flats and creeks at Malden?  Equally treacherous.



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Spent two weeks on the Thames from Chertsey to Letchlade and back, great fun, until my father hit the low bridge at Oxford, demolished the cabin windscreen, then we realised why it folded flat! :lol:  It must have happened before, we just glued it back together, nobody noticed.

I do want the flooding of the marginal areas, yesterday it just covered the grassy margins, I want to get the next extreme tide and that should show the extent of the tidal coverage.

Need more practice with video (time-lapse), now I have a capable camera.



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Lol - yes, I know most of the Essex coastline and the Thames up to Lechlade. Never hit a bridge though :lol:



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Robert wrote:

The D800 has a video trick up it's sleeve, this was the first time I have used it intentionally (don't ask!), what it does is take the exposures in a different format, then at the end of the recording it assembles a video clip, it's one single file.  The finished file is quite small (64Mb) compared with the thousands of exposures I have taken in the past to assemble into a movie. It does this quite seamlessly, even when the camera's battery runs out of charge (but not if you switch the camera off before it's done).  Nikon's default is five seconds per frame, one can go down to 1 second if needed to get an appropriate replay speed.


What menu item is that?  Since I almost never do video I have never used it.



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Posted: Sun Apr 7th, 2019 12:29
 
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Last but one item in the Shooting Menu.

It greys out easily, it won't activate without a lens or if bracketing is selected, I am sure there will be other incompatible settings which will grey out the option, those are just the ones I have run up against.

I understand the D850 is even better with additional options and a 'Holy Grail' setting option which allows a much wider exposure range to allow time-lapse to be made from bright daylight through to dark night conditions without user intervention.



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Thanks.  I will take a look.



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The time-lapse feature was one of the many reasons I went for the D800, despite it's high pixel count, while useful at times, I don't really need the high resolution day to day.



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I find the D800 is a great camera that is perfectly balanced between the 24MP of my D600 and the 45MP of the D850/Z7.
It works well for me.



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I think the thing about the D800 which I most like is the pliability and range of the NEF's, the amazing detail I can find in the shadows and to a lesser extent in the highlights.



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