Excelvan Q8 V Panasonic Lumix FZ45 Sound and Video Test

A comparison of the Panasonic Lumix FZ45 bridge camera and the Excelvan Q8 4K UHD action camera.  The biggest difference is that the sound on the Excelvan Q8 is very poor.  The footage here is taken with the camera out of its waterproof case, when in its waterproof case the sound is practically inaudible.  Video is comparable, but I think the FZ45 wins.

Action Cam Hints & Tips: Excelvan Q8 Timelapse using the Auto Stills mode

Action Cam Hints & Tips: Taking a Series of Stills with the Excelvan Q8 4K Ultra HD Action Camera. 
Taking a series of still photographs can be a useful method for creating timelapse movies.  It has a number of advantages over using the timelapse feature directly.  Firstly you can take advantage of the Q8's full 16MP resolution.  Secondly you can create standard and widescreen movies.  Thirdly, you can examine each frame individually, which makes editing your movies easier. 

The Q8 has a built in Auto mode which enables you to automate still series captures.  This video covers setting up and using this mode.  To find out how to render your movie in Windows Live Movie Maker, please watch How to make a timelapse movie from still images.

A summer sky cloud time lapse is now on the Cloud Appreciation Society Website

A summer sky cloud time lapse with the Excelvan Q8 4K UHD Action Cam, is now on the Cloud Appreciation Society Website front page https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Cumulus clouds on a warm day billow across the sky and eventually disperse.  Blackbirds, crows, pigeons and the sounds of nature fill the air.  What a wonderful way to relax... All recorded from my English Country Garden :-) Filmed with the Excelvan Q8 4K Ultra HD action camera (video) and a Lumix FZ45 bridge camera (sound) and rendered with CyberLink Power Director 11.

It is also in the video section https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-videos/

The Cloud Appreciation Society is for everybody who loves clouds Their Manifesto is here
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Aquarium Timelapse with the Excelvan Q8 4K UHD Action Cam

What do fish really get up to when you are not around? This short timelapse of some bristlenose plecos shines some light on the subject.


Sample timelapse footage taken with the Excelvan Q8 4K UHD action camera. 

Background music Tuba Waddle by Audionautix; from the YouTube audio library. http://www.audionautix.com

Swirling mist and clouds at twilight

A time-lapse study of mist and clouds at twilight, filmed in Great Torrington, North Devon, England.  The swirling mist is very eerie and allows the viewer a glimpse into another world, one which exists in a much slower time frame.

As I experiment with time lapse photography, I begin to see nature at a different, much slower speed. Mist and clouds have a completely different life if you slow down your perception. At 30x speed, mist and cloud move like creatures, they swirl, grow and dart from pace to place, they move like giant waves and seem to have their own societies and will. This is not seen at normal speed, as they are moving too slowly. We see them as static forms, devoid of movement, but in a time-lapse film they come to life.

I can see that my own life has a deeper flow at this and even slower speeds. There is the industrious 30Hz Beta brainwave frequency, in which we spend most of our waking life, and the delta frequency of around 1Hz which is present during deep sleep. The difference in frequency is the same magnitude as the difference between our waking perception of static clouds and the time-lapse speed where the clouds and mist come to life.

You cannot turn a supertanker on a dime. Life is like this, we may make changes at 'normal speed' but only see the context of our life at the slower speed. We become impatient for change because we expect everything to happen at the Beta frequency. Our life comes into focus in months and years and only then does the overall pattern become apparent. For me this is the pattern of meditation, peace and subtle communion with the elements. To be at one with this level of being I need to slow down, moving from staccato to stillness.

Moonrise - Full Hay Moon over the English Countryside (HD and Timelapse)

A haunting moonrise over Torrington on 20th July 2016. This short film features real time and timelapse footage of the Full Moon rising over Torrington, Devon. This moon is known as the Hay Moon, Thunder Moon and the Buck Moon.

Background music Mature Sounds by Jingle Punks, from the YouTube audio library. Wide angle shot, Excelvan Q8 action cam, 5 second delay timelapse. Zoom shot, Lumix FZ45 video.

A cloud timelapse color study

This is one for all you cloudspotters out there.  A timelapse film taken at twilight in Great Torrington, Devon.  It starts with a color study of clouds and an arching rainbow and ends with the moonrise of the August 2014 supermoon.