Time lapse photography of building site over a 12 month period

[Les McLean]

A friend of mine contacted me with advice on quite a tall order.
I must admit, I'm completely stumped on how to go about this?

He is wanting to put a DSLR in place on a building site, and take a time lapse image every 10 minutes during the day (not night) over a period of a year.

It also needs the facility to monitor the camera remotely (3G?), and a ability to automatically upload the images from the camera to a server.

Solar Panels? to maintain battery supply?

Waterproof housing?

Any thoughts/help would be appreciated?

 

[treeman]

Possibly look at something like a GoPro with wireless, the quality is surprisingly good.

 

[f0xy]

Does it need to be DSLR quality? If not you'd be better off getting some sort of IP camera connected to something with an internet connection (router + 3g dongle)... especially if its being left somewhere 'unsecure'

 

[tiler65]

have a look here for a 3rd party professional solution

http://www.site-eye.co.uk/longterm_timelapse_films.html

but there are kits to buy for cameras, I am sure there was a good one on here but it is probably a few years ago.

 

[tiler65]

Check out On1 software as they do a good remote shooting solution.

And if you use Canon, I think canon utilities has a package but not sure how flexible it is.

 

[f0xy]

Site-Eye looks rather impressive. I guess it depends on budget also

 

[Les McLean]

Thanks for all the responses folks, I'll pass them onto my mate

 

[andyred]

Not a clue how to help Les, but sounds very interesting project

Would love to see the results ...