On ebay (seller from hong kong) I bought a Phottix Nikos and you would want one with the N10 cable for the D7000/D5100/etc. It's lovely. It took about 5 days to get here (western US) from Hong Kong.

What remote did you go with, jonny? I find the D7000's intervalometer a bit iffy, and was planning on getting a remote as well.

Yea... sometimes Nikon surprises me with its lack of common sense (or user friendly as mentioned before)

I bought a separate remote, as well. Night and day difference.

I should mention that this feature was even less user friendly on the D300.

+1 for JorPet.

Though I have never tired this, why on earth would Nikon have a configuration procedure like this...sure does not fall in the "user friendly" category to me.

Thanks to all, I found the mistake I had.

I have miss-interpreted that the interval is between the photos and not from the time you press the shutter.

That is, if the every single photo will take 20sec, the interval should be larger than that time (that includes the time the camera takes to save the NEF file)

Thanks again.

Have a nice day

I agree... I was trying to figure out how to use it too! Thanks for the clarification on the correct way to enter in all the information.

Thanks for posting instructions, JorPet. I was messing around with my intervalometer, too, and totally failed to get it to work right. Looking at your instructions, I'm sure I must have set it up wrong. I definitely did not think about the exposure counting as part of the interval. I'm going to try it again following your instructions and see if I can get it to work. That is the most confusing menu on the camera.

rbid,
I'm guessing you set the shot count to 5 rather than 20. I find that screen madingly confusing, it will make me break down and get a remote with a timer function just to get around that one screen.

- On the first menu, you need to select NOW or the time you want it to start
- On the next menu, you need to select the interval time, in your case zero the 1 in the minutes(') column and then put 5 in the seconds column(")
- On the next menu you set the number of intervals (times to shoot) times the number of shots to take each time (shutter releases for each interval)

So in your case, set it to NOW, then 00.00.05, then 20 and 1.

That will give you intervals of 5 seconds, twenty intervals and one shot at each interval. That should result in 20 total shots.

EDIT:
Just read that last line again. You were shooting at 20 seconds, so if you set the interval to 5 seconds, the shutter open time is over running 4-5 intervals. You would need to set the interval time to 26 seconds to get a five second pause between the 20 second exposures.

You may have had the rest set correctly, but the interval time is a hard time, it doesn't stop counting for shutter open time. You have to add the long shutter open time to your interval to make it work.

According to Thom Hogan, the actual shutter open time for a 20 second exposure is 21 seconds, so plan accordingly.

Hello,

Today I wanted to catch some lightnings with my D7000, and I thought that the intervalometer could be the solution.. but it wasn't.

I have tested with a single shot in manual mode, f/11, 20sec, at 18mm and the exposure was was as wanted... and my goal was not to catch the storm that was getting closer.

So I turned on the intervalometer, to run 20 photos, with an interval of 5 sec between each photo, hopping yo get 20 shots, but the camera didn't do that, instead I got only 5 or 6 photos...

RTFM did not help. :(

Can someone give me a hand?

Have a nice day.
setup the camera in manual mode (Also manual focus), f/11, for 20sec

1) P300 doesn't seem to have timelapse built-in.

2) I don't think there are any commercial intervalometers that can be used with the P300.

3) The P300 isn't listed as compatible with the [em]gphoto2[/em] software (http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php) so I doubt it is controllable over the USB.

I suggest you look at other cameras.

Thanks for the reply - the thread you linked to seemed to be about time lapse on SLRs (unless I missed something). But to clarify: I don't own a P300, I am just interested in picking one up IF it can be used for time lapse or whether it can be used with an intervalometer?

Maybe any P300 owners out there could shed some light?

This thread might help you.
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2049

Would really appreciate some advice if anyone has any? I'm basically after a small, light, cheapish, reasonable quality camera that can do time lapse.. was hoping the P300 was the one

Hi there, I would like to know if the P300 features (or is compatible with) any kind of intervalometer? for taking continuous photos over several minutes or hours.

Any help would be great.

Thanks