Free software was limited and didn’t have much control, and I’m not quite ready to invest money into more professional software yet. Trying to find the right application to put the video together quickly got frustrating. I bought a cheap, second hand GoPro Hero 3+ Silver and a portable tripod to get started, and took them along on a trip to Manning Park. So it seemed like a good opportunity to experiment with time-lapse myself. I’ve been going camping a lot this summer, and I’m discovering just how spectacular British Columbia is. It is great that MSM can operate connected to a portable power-bank.Time-lapse has fascinated me since I watched Terje Sørgjerd’s videos many, many years ago. The in-built battery lasts up to three consecutive nights.

I have used MSM almost diary during a month, and I have fond the MSM performance satisfactory even with a 135 mm focal length lens and 90 s exposure time. I use the laser, but the day I tried MSM for the first time, I simply aligned it looking at Polaris through the pinhole, and it worked fine (for me at least) with a 15 mm lens and 1 min exposure. And that is exactly what I received (the shipping was very fast, too!). A tracker I could carry comfortably in my backpack, easy to mount and align and precise enough for exposures up to 1 or 2 minutes. I was looking for a light-weight star tracker that worked well with short focal length lenses for nightscape photography. I purchased MSM after reading some ravishing reviews by respected astrophotographers and nightscapers.

Moving time lapse tool