I biked over to John Chestnut Park today and walked up to the top of the observation tower for this shot.. yes, some of the clouds are a little over-exposed as the Ricoh GX200 I got recently doesn’t support high shutter speeds when I set the aperture wide open! The battery died too so it didn’t run as long as I would have liked.. Overall, the camera is really good for time-lapses, and there’s an auto-aperture shift setting that should take care of its inability to shoot at the fastest speeds when at f/2.5 or other large apertures. A lot of the time-lapses I’ve shot in the past month or so are with it – click here for the first one I shot the day I got it, it’s a bit long but the night shots have nice exposure.. the GX200 has a built in interval timer that goes down to a 5 second interval, the wide angle lens is equivalent to 24mm (in 35mm terms), it fits in a pocket, has a larger sensor that most compact cameras, has fully manual control and custom settings, you can keep the LCD screen off during time-lapses, can shoot raw, and it has a nifty unique lens cap that opens/closes on its own!! If you want to try some time-lapses with a very capable camera you can carry anywhere, it’s a good choice if you don’t mind picking up one used or happen to find a new one that never got sold.

it’s funny, with all the times I’ve been up to the observation tower to photograph, I don’t think I’ve ever done a time-lapse from there at sunset.. I did shoot one mid-day.. the first little planet time-lapse that I successfully processed was shot up there – click here to see it if you like