Time Lapse

My day job is as a communications whiz and documentarian for a fabulous non-profit here in Santa Fe. A current project of mine requires the use of time-lapse photography. Well, it turns out that neither the video camera nor the DSLR I use have a built-in time-lapse feature. I attempted this cool hack from instructables, but alas, my DSLR does not have the needed input. So what's a girl to do?

Well, if said girl has a mac, she can use the Automator application to piece together a simple intervalometer, connect her camera to her laptop via USB, and voila!

Here's how I did it:

This won't work for all cameras, but it turned out to be the easiest/free solution for me. I thought it might be useful for some of you who've been dying to make a time-lapse of your various freaky homesteader projects.