GH4 Video Timelapse

By Michael Reichmann

I spent several days in late April visiting Hong Kong, as part of goingon-pressfor my major new book, "Michael Reichmann – a 20 Year Photography Retrospective".This will be  a large format, cloth bound, hard-cover book with 400 pages, containing 380 images.
During our time in Hong Kong the weather was pretty nasty; hot, very humid and with occasional rain. The shot above gives a feel for what it was like. We ended up spending considerable time at our hotel, with its panoramic view of Hong Kong harbour. I also had a new Panasonic GH4 camera on the trip, and enjoyed experimenting with both its stills and video capabilities.
Not by any means unique to the GH4 is the ability to shoot timelapse. But on the GH4 one can do so with the camera automatically creating a 4K video at the end of shooting the stills sequence on which it will be based. A quick experiment showed that this worked really well, and so late one afternoon I set up the camera pointing o...