Didier Stevens

Did you know Nokia mobile phones with the S60 platform can be programmed in Python? During my last holiday, I wrote a small program for time lapse photography with my mobile. Here is the result, showing tidal ebbs and flows in Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue and Cancale:

This is the Python program I wrote to take a picture every minute:

#!/usr/bin/python

__description__ = 'Tool to take pictures with a Nokia phone at regular intervals'
__author__ = 'Didier Stevens'
__version__ = '0.1.1'
__date__ = '2009/06/22'

"""

Source code put in public domain by Didier Stevens, no Copyright
https://DidierStevens.com
Use at your own risk

History:
 2009/06/17: start
 2009/06/22: refactoring

Todo:
 Get Threading to work
"""

import camera
import time
import os

timelapseFolder = 'e:\\timelapse\\'
sleepTime = 57

def TakeAndSavePicture():
    global timelapseFolder

    now = '%04d%02d%02d-%02d%02d%02d' % time.localtime()[0:6]
    pic = camera.take_photo()
    pic.save(os.path.join(timelapseFolder, now, '.jpeg'))
    print 'Picture taken: %s' % now

def Main():
    global timelapseFolder
    global sleepTime

    print 'Timelapse photography started'
    if not os.path.isdir(timelapseFolder):
        os.mkdir(timelapseFolder)
        print 'Timelapse folder created: %s' % timelapseFolder
    print 'Wait between pictures %d' % sleepTime
    while True:
        TakeAndSavePicture()
        time.sleep(sleepTime)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Main()

And then I use Avisynth to combine the jpeg pictures in a movie like this (I join pictures 00001.jpg through 00197.jpeg, 5 per second and produce a 25 fps movie):

ImageSource("%05d.jpeg", 1, 197, 5).ChangeFPS(25)