Didier Stevens

Per @TimelessP’s request, here’s so more Python code that can be used for time-lapse photography.

It’s code I wrote to take surveillance pictures from IP-cameras:

You have to update 2 config files with the data of your IP-cameras: vs.config and credentials.config. Fields in the config files are tab-separated.

vs.config contains the IP cameras, example:

Hall.jpg    http://192.168.1.1/IMAGE.JPG    -

First field is the prefix for the name when saving the picture (suffix is a timestamp). Second field is the URL to access the picture on the IP camera (depends on the model your using). Third field is a fixed name for the picture, use a hyphen (-) if not used.

credentials.config contains the passwords to access the IP-cameras, example:

192.168.1.1    admin    password

Download:

vs_v0_2.zip (https)

MD5: DB806B49705D544F4B928A8F76622125

SHA256: 042FA2CE1F5AEBD433D59B9D4755783E6CE58014FE59086C6A2A8E8781C63B45

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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)

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