Just after piking ppls brains here for a second. ne body got ne ideas how i could set up a digital stills camera to take pictures automatically (like they do with plants n stuff to show them growing when it is played back) I have a project im workingon where i need to ake 2250 pictures in total roughly 10 seconds apart, im gunna be capturing it straight to a laptop hard drive neone know of software or a way to do this? cheers
sam

So you want a timelapse of 2250 photos 10 seconds apart?

I think there are good shareware programs which can do this for both Mac and Windows. I can't remember any specific titles, but I know they can be found with a search of sites like download.com for the phrase timelapse.

The ideal way to do it would be with a Nikon DSLR and Nikon Capture software. I don't know what you have available to you or what kind of budget you have, but that's how I'd do it. But as Titaniumdoughnut said, there are many shareware and even freeware programs that will do this. You can even use a DV camcorder to do it with most of them.

Check some of this stuff out and good luck.

A still camera is better in terms of quality for timelapse, but not quite as practical.

Can you use a miniDV camcorder?

FrameThief is a good shareware program for Mac that can do timelapse (though I think you have to register for that functionality.)