![How temperature affects solar panel and lithium ion (Li-Ion) battery performance + why Always-On mode is important]()
by Dean E
May 03, 2019
How do solar panel and lithium-ion battery performance change with temperature? Read about the factors to consider in this blog post.
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![Five Common Long Term Time Lapse Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them!)]()
by Sarah Wallace
April 04, 2019
While time lapse photography can be easy, there are links in the chain that need to be considered. There are a few common mistakes that can ruin a project, if you’re not careful. Here are four of the common long term time lapse mistakes to avoid to ensure successful projects.
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![UpBlink is Finally Here. Now Available for Pre-Sale]()
by Sarah Wallace
March 12, 2019
The wait is over. We announced that UpBlink was coming back in December. And now, it’s available for Pre-Sale. Our aim is to help streamline your long term time lapse workflow. And with UpBlink, we have! Now, get automatic image upload and remote site monitoring with UpBlink.
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![How Construction Video Marketing Will Drive More Business]()
by Sarah Wallace
February 20, 2019
Video is highly effective. This is an undeniable fact. Whether it is because people have short attention spans or prefer engaging with moving images, video has become a marketing force that cannot be ignored. If you haven’t included video in your construction marketing strategy, it’s time to start. And we can help!
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![Customer Footage: Extreme Cold Winter Time Lapse in Pisgah National Forest]()
by Sarah Wallace
February 06, 2019
We love seeing customers successfully using our products for winter time lapse in the extreme cold. Nichaolas Holshouser recently sent us this beautiful time lapse. He captured it in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina at 6,000 feet in elevation along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It covers January 20-21, during the eclipse. Temperatures dipped into the single digits (5F/ -15C as the low). The time lapse kit had already been in the field for two weeks prior to this.
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![The Top Four Tips for Construction Site Security]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 30, 2019
While we’re not in the business of construction site security, it is top of mind for many of our customers. And it’s something we care about too. Customers occasionally bring this issue up during discussion of upcoming projects. It’s an important aspect of the process - and photography does have a role in ensuring your site is safe and secure.
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![View: Magnificent Super Blood Wolf Moon Time Lapse Videos]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 22, 2019
Did you get a chance to catch Sunday’s Super Blood Wolf Moon total lunar eclipse? It was a pretty incredible sight. And of course we were interested in checking out all of the great time lapse videos that captured the amazing lunar event. While we’re not in the business of astro time lapse, it’s no secret that we’re fans. Time lapse is such an amazing medium to view the the events of the world around us… on land, in water or in the sky!
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![5 Considerations of Winter Time Lapse Photography]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 21, 2019
Our customers tend to run long term time lapse projects with average durations of 6-12 months (or longer!). If you’re one of these people, you’ll likely experience the joys of dealing with the cold weather that accompanies winter months… and all of the challenges that come along with it. Here are the five things to consider when capturing time lapse footage during the cold winter months.
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![Take a Trip Around Earth With the Longest Time Lapse Ever Shot From Space]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 08, 2019
The European Space Agency (ESA) featured a time lapse to celebrate 20 years of international collaboration and research for the benefit of Earth. It is the longest continuous time lapse shot from space.
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![Product Review: Kyle Martin's Thorough Review of BlinkX & SolarX]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 07, 2019
Kyle Martin, of the popular YouTube channel "Kyle Martin Tech: GoPro Tips and Tricks", had a chance to spend some time with our BlinkX time lapse controller and SolarX solar enclosure. View the video to hear what he had to say.
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![Customer Footage: Final Time Lapse of 18-Month UDOT Highway Construction Project]()
by Sarah Wallace
January 03, 2019
Last year, we featured a highway construction time lapse done by Utah Department of Transportation that was submitted by Bobby Gibson of InBlue Productions. The first video was a progress video that illustrated one piece of a much larger pie. This project turned a highway into a freeway-style road, which consisted of building ramps/underpasses for all the busy cross streets for the highway.
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![Introducing UpBlink: 4K Long Term Time Lapse with Cloud Upload Capabilities]()
by Sarah Wallace
December 27, 2018
UpBlink is a time lapse intervalometer and scheduler that allows for image upload. It provides all the things you know and love about BlinkX: 4K quality, is easy to deploy, allows for remote monitoring, lowest total cost of ownership... but expands its capability to uploading images to the cloud via CloudX Pro.
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![Watch: 6-Year Construction Time Lapse of Amazon's Seattle Headquarters]()
by Sarah Wallace
December 12, 2018
Watch Amazon’s Seattle headquarters six-year construction project in just 40 seconds. This impressive time lapse shows the work done on the SR 99 tunnel project.
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![The 5 Most Creative Construction Time Lapse Videos]()
by Sarah Wallace
December 03, 2018
Our customers frequently submit examples of unique ways they're using time lapse to highlight their construction projects. They're bringing each project to life in creative ways. We highlight five of the most unique construction time lapse videos that we've received so far that utilize our products.
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![The Top 4 Reasons to Create Time Lapse Videos of your Construction Projects]()
by Sarah Wallace
November 30, 2018
The use of time lapse videos within the construction industry has exploded over the years. More and more of our clients have indicated to us that creating time lapse videos of their construction projects is now a crucial part of their workflow. But why?
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![Customer Footage: Roofing & Waterproofing Construction Time Lapse & Aerial Footage]()
by Sarah Wallace
November 08, 2018
CamDo customer Nick Henry at Drone Life Aerials shared footage of his recent construction time lapse project with us. The video mixes both time lapse and aerial footage to capture a roofing and waterproofing construction project and used our BlinkX Time Lapse Controller, a GoPro HERO5 camera and a Solar Enclosure to capture the time lapse images.
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![Customer Project in Progress: DTU Aqua Underwater Time Lapse for Reef Restoration]()
by Katherine Wittman
September 06, 2018
When you hear "reef restoration", you likely tend to think about coral reefs and other underwater habitats in places like Australia or in South America, but the fact is that there are reefs of all different kinds (not just coral) throughout the world's oceans that are monitored, restored, and protected.
CamDo customer, Dr. Jon Svendsen with the Danish National Institute of Aquatic Resources, is part of one of these reef restoration projects, and recently shared the underwater time lapse footage from his team's current Marine Habitat Restoration project.
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![Customer Footage: Construction Time Lapse of Shed Restaurant, Tofino BC]()
by Katherine Wittman
July 30, 2018
There are a few things synonymous with the town of Tofino, on Canada’s West Coast, including but certainly not limited to: surf culture, the rugged coastline, rain, refreshing, cold waters, Shelter Restaurant, Tacofino, Hot Springs, fishing and we bet that the newly opened Shed Restaurant becomes one, too!
The construction time lapse footage of Shed Restaurant featured in this blog was captured over 5 months using our purpose-built ShootX time lapse camera and CloudX Pro for remote monitoring of the construction site.
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![CamDo Insider: In Blue Production’s Long Term Construction Time Lapse Camera Overview]()
by Katherine Wittman
July 19, 2018
CamDo customer Bobby Gibson, who has been featured twice before in our blog, including this bridge construction time lapse project and this solar panel installation time lapse, recently shared his overview of the CamDo long term time lapse tools he has been using to capture his construction time lapse footage, namely the SolarX Time Lapse Enclosure.
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![FREE CamDoMachine Time Lapse Software Now Available for Download]()
by Katherine Wittman
July 12, 2018
CamDo Solutions has released CamDoMachine, our free time lapse software, to help you to create time lapse footage easily, quickly, and without bloated software.
Our time lapse software was designed to be simple to use: CamDoMachine can take images from any source, including ShootX, as opposed to other time lapse software like GoPro Studio: it is a powerful tool, but it only allows the use of GoPro footage.
The best part about CamDoMachine? It's completely free!
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![Customer Footage: Remote Monitoring of Koh Samui Beach, Thailand]()
by Katherine Wittman
June 28, 2018
CamDo customer Arkadiy Kulev recently shared the perfect travel footage with a live stream of the beach at Koh Samui, Thailand.
As part of a live stream project coordinated by Arkadiy and his partner, Evgeniia Pavlova, of Teleport.camera, this footage is not only perfect for live remote monitoring, but is also used in marketing efforts for this restaurant and beach resort in Thailand.
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![Streamlined Construction Time Lapse Solutions: CamDo Meets Procore]()
by Katherine Wittman
June 20, 2018
CamDo Solutions is excited to announce the first step in our integration with one of the leading construction management software platforms: Procore. Now, the best in quality and value in construction time lapse solutions that you've come to expect from CamDo, integrates seamlessly, quickly, and at the touch of a button with Procore's trusted, universal platform.
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![Customer Footage: Construction Time Lapse of Area 27 Motorsports Park]()
by Marcos Chen
June 01, 2018
CamDo customer Jon Hunwick recently shared some incredible construction time lapse footage of Area 27 Motorsports Park. As producer of Asymetriq Productions Inc., Jon captured the long process of building a race track designed by Jacques Villeneuve.
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![Customer Footage: Remodeling Home Construction Time Lapse]()
by Marcos Chen
May 16, 2018
CamDo customer Seth Larson recently shared some amazing home construction time lapse footage using our Blink setup. His company specializes in creating beautiful home remodeling projects in San Diego, CA.
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![How to provide permanent power to your GoPro time lapse solution]()
by Yarin K
May 08, 2018
Yarin, from our Engineering department, gives you a step-by-step tutorial on how to provide permanent power to your GoPro time lapse solution in this helpful article.
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![Customer Project in Progress: GoPro Underwater Time Lapse of Coral Reefs]()
by Marcos Chen
April 26, 2018
CamDo customer Ahmad Allahgholi shared with us his initial stages of filming an 8 month time lapse with a GoPro underwater camera setup. As the founder and director of coralive.org, Ahmad is interested in filming the growth of corals on an artificial reef, which he built to make corals grow stronger and faster.
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![Customer Project in Progress: Construction Time Lapse of an Office and Fabrication Plant]()
by Anna Jean-Louis
April 17, 2018
Customer Trevor Walker shared an in-progress clip of a construction time lapse project he's working on in of a demolition and construction of an office and fabrication plant for a supplier of specialist equipment to the gas and oil industry. He was approached to handle this project after completing a six month project for another fabrication plant for hydraulic equipment on the same industrial estate.
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![Customer Footage: Solar Panel Installation Time Lapse on a Residential Home]()
by Anna Jean-Louis
April 10, 2018
CamDo customer Bobby Gibson uses Blink time lapse controllers with GoPro HERO4 cameras to capture a solar panel installation time lapse. This project was done for a solar company called Auric Solar to help illustrate how quick and easy solar panel installations really are.
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![Customer Project: Prefabricated Corporate Office Construction Time Lapse]()
by Anna Jean-Louis
April 03, 2018
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![Four-Year Construction Time Lapse: Coal, Clinker and Cement Terminal Project]()
by Anna Jean-Louis
March 16, 2018
CamDo customer Rizwan Bhiriya doesn’t mess around when it comes to ‘long term’ in long term time lapse photography. He recently shared his latest project with us: a nearly four year construction time lapse of the Pakistan's first dedicated coal, clinker and cement terminal at Port Qasim in Karachi.
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![Construction Time Lapse from a Crane: Solar Panel Installation]()
by Sarah W
March 07, 2018
CamDo customer David Dupuy recently shared this unique construction time lapse with us. He mounted BlinkX, a v44 Battery and a GoPro HERO5 camera onto the top of a crane, shooting downwards, to capture a solar panel installation on building rooftops in Stuyvesant Town, New York City.
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![Five Cool Time Lapse Videos from CamDo Customers]()
by Sarah W
February 28, 2018
We’re continually in awe at the cool time lapse videos, projects and applications that we receive from our customers. From the construction of massive gas tankers to the completion of building murals, our customers are creatively capturing the world around them with time lapse photography. Here are five of our favorite project features over the last few years.
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![Customer Footage: Gluyas Motor Group Construction Time Lapse]()
by Sarah W
February 19, 2018
Customer James Reid recently shared his footage that documents the building of Gluyas Motor group. This construction time lapse was taken to capture the major milestone of tearing down the old building and building the new workshop and offices.
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![Biking Around Town: Hyperlapse of Vancouver’s Stanley Park]()
by Todd M
February 13, 2018
CamDo CEO enjoys a gorgeous day by taking a bike ride around Vancouver's beautiful Stanley Park and creates a hyperlapse of his day. Watch the video and learn how he created the video.
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![How to reduce GoPro time lapse movie file size using FFmpeg (convert from H.264 to HEVC H.265 and vice versa)]()
by Dean E
February 12, 2018
CamDo Engineer, Dean, gives you a step-by-step tutorial on how to reduce GoPro file size of your time lapse movies using FFmpeg (convert from H.264 to HEVC H.255 and vice versa) in this helpful article.
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![Customer Footage: Tiny Home Construction Time Lapse for a Great Cause]()
by Sarah W
February 09, 2018
CamDo customer Tony Leja recently shared footage of the construction of a 25 unit tiny home community for those in need in Detroit, MI. Leja used Blink and a GoPro HERO4; and the project has been running for 15 months. So far, seven homes are completed, six are under construction and they expect to complete the project this spring.
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