I hadn’t planned to do another post so soon but yesterday we had a typhoon blow through (literally!) and it even went up to a Signal No. 8 the winds were so high. Just before it went dark, I noticed that the clouds near where I live were moving really fast so I decided to film them before it was too late. I normally do time lapse with my Gopro HD but I’ve had mixed results because a) the batteries go long before I finish filming (even with the additional battery-Pac added), and b) the camera doesn’t adjust so well to the changing lighting conditions and there’s usually a jump when the light changes which tends to spoil the effect.

So this time I decided to use my Canon XA10 instead. I changed the bit-rate down to it’s lowest setting (5bpm) as I figured I may have a lot of footage to download and full HD might take for ever. I also didn’t know how much filming I was going to need to capture the shots. In the end, I filmed for an hour and then speeded it up a couple of times resulting in about 1 minute worth of footage by the time I finished. Again, the footage you see is exactly as it came from the camera, with no colour grading or effects.