With the release of the Canon 7D Mark II a couple years back, we are starting to see more and more Canon DSLRs offer a built-in intervalometer. For those of us who have shot Canon DSLRs for a long time, this is a very welcomed trend.
The Canon 80D offers virtually the same built-in intervalometer features we saw on the Canon 7D Mark II. I put together the above video as a quick walk-through to introduce the features to new 80D users. If for some reason you can’t see the video embedded above, you can find it directly here on YouTube.
You can also read my full Canon 80D Review for more on this mid-range prosumer DSLR.
As always your articles are very informative and extremely helpful. If I may, I have a couple of questions:
1) Do cameras like the 1D MkII, the 5D Mk IV, and the 5DsR have this intervalometer, too?
2) If I want to go for very long shots, such as for days and nights (the power problem nonewithstanding), then how can I ensure that the ISO and other settings adjust to both nighttime and daytime shots, because obviously daytime requires different settings than nighttime shots?
Thank you and keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Dr. Peter Beck
The 1DX Mark II does not have a built-in intervalometer. The 5D Mark IV and 5DsR do have a built-in intervalometer. Of course, you can use a remote for pretty much every DSLR to shoot timelapses.
You can get AC adapters for most cameras too, so that would get you past the extended shooting time. And I think you can plan your metering and auto-exposure settings to accomodate the changing light over several days. While the exposures probably won’t work out perfect like they would if you were setting it manually for a specific scene and lighting, you can plan for a middle ground that leverages RAW file format, the metering pattern and exposure compensation to handle most circumstances.
Sorry, on my previous message I made a typing error. Question #1 was referring to the 1DX Mk II, not 1D.