Time lapse photography on the cheap.

Needed to do some quick and dirty time lapse shots over the weekend. Automator has a Take Picture action but not all cameras are supported (for some strange reason) and even though I can tether shoot in Aperture my Canon 40D isn't supported by Automator.

So I cobbled together this AppleScript. It has the added bonus that the images are already in Aperture, no need to import.

enjoy!

There is a down loadable version of the script at my website Crystal Objects

(*
          ©2011 Frank Caggiano

          Time Lapsed Tethered Shooting in Aperture

          Create and select Aperture destination project for the tethered shots before runnig this script.

*)
set delayTime to 10 -- Number seconds between shots
set totalShots to 5 -- Number of shots to take


tell application "Aperture" to activate
tell application "System Events"
          tell process "Aperture"
                    click menu item "Start Session…" of menu 1 of menu item "Tether" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1

                    click button "Start Session" of window "Tether Settings"
                        delay 1
                    click button "Capture" of window "Tether"

                    repeat (totalShots - 1) times
                                delay delayTime
                              click button "Capture" of window "Tether"
                    end repeat
                         delay 1
                    click button "Stop Session" of window "Tether"
          end tell
end tell

Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano Modify delayTime and totalShots for your needs (in case thats not obvious)