Simple Explanations

RV Solar Chargers

2007-12-29T03:39:00.000-08:00

Solar Chargers | RVs, Boats, and Camping

Here are some simple explanations on the subject of Solar Charger in RVs, Boats, or for Camping:

RV Solar Panels
RV Camping with Solar Chargers
Boats and Solar Panels

The Coleman | iSun Solar Charger

2007-12-28T16:48:00.000-08:00

The Coleman | iSun Solar Charger

For an explanation of what the Coleman/iSun Solar Charger is, see the following:

The Coleman/iSun Solar Charger

The Sunsei Solar Charger

2007-12-28T16:43:00.000-08:00

The Sunsei Solar Charger

See the below article on how the Sunsei Solar Charger works:

Sunsei Solar Charger

What is Pay Per Play Advertising?

2007-12-21T08:38:00.001-08:00

Pay Per Play Defined

The following is a simple explanation of what Pay Per Play Advertising is and how it works:

Define Pay Per Play

You can find further information here:

Pay Per Play

What is Residual Income?

2007-12-21T08:35:00.001-08:00

Define Residual Income

Following is a simple explanation and definition of residual income

Residual Income Defined

Electrical Solar Energy

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Electrical Solar Energy

A simple explanation of Electrical Solar Energy:

Electrical Solar Energy

Solar Powered Flat Panels

2007-12-21T08:32:00.000-08:00

Solar Powered Flat Panels

A simple description of how solar powered flat panels work:

Solar Powered Flat Panels

Solar Energy Systems

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Solar Energy Systems

Here is a simple "how it works" explanation of how Solar Energy Systems function:

Solar Energy Systems

Solar Panels

2007-12-21T08:29:00.000-08:00

Solar Panels and How They Work

Here is a simple explanation of how solar panels work:

Solar Panels

Components of Portable Solar Powered Systems

2007-12-21T08:26:00.000-08:00

Components of Portable Solar Powered Systems

Here are simple explanations of which devices you need to use with a portable solar powered system or solar charger:

Devices Used In Portable Solar Powered Systems

The Solio Charger

2007-12-21T08:25:00.001-08:00

The Solio Charger

Here is a simple explanation of what the Solio Charger is and how it works:

The Solio Charger

The Brunton Solar Charger

2007-12-21T08:23:00.000-08:00

The Brunton Solar Charger

Here is a simple explanation of what a Brunton Solar Charger is and how it works:

The Brunton Solar Charger

The Solio Portable Solar Charger

2007-12-15T13:52:00.000-08:00

The Solio Charger

Portable Solar Charger

See technical explanations and information here The Solio Charger - How it Works

About this Blog

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The modern technological age is glutted with super-complex explanations and information which is designed to confuse anyone who does not already know all about the subject they are trying to learn. It may make the writer feel smart but it doesn't much help anyone else who is simply trying to learn and understand more.

That's why I created this blog - simple explanations. It starts with a few links and articles, but this will grow.

This blog is to contain articles and links to articles which contain simple explanations of anything, anyone, and anywhere. For the start, it is aimed toward technological matters as these are the subjects which are prone to the most confusing descriptions - but they are also subjects that everyone needs to know about them. As the years march on, understanding technology becomes more and more important to the average person.

And this blog is created for the average person.

Another note - I have no wish to overstuff blogger.com's computers with duplicate articles or content which is already contained in other blogs or websites. In cases where simple explanations are already included in other websites, I will simply link from here to those websites. If you bookmark this page, you will easily be able to return to this blog whenever you need to.

I very much hope that you will find useful information in this blog and that it will assist you to learn and understand something about the world we live in.

Yours,

Anna

Time-Lapse Photography

2007-01-27T15:11:00.000-08:00

Understanding Time-Lapse Photography

In simple terms, time lapse photography consists of a series of photographs taken over a period of time, assembled into a movie sequence.

How does this work? Well, when you watch a movie, what you are eally seeing is a series of still pictures shown one after the other, at the rate of 30 frames (pictures) per second.

A normal video camera takes 30 pictures per second. So when you play back the recording, it gives the impression of smooth motion. But if you were to use a regular camera to take a picture of a scene once every second, and if you would

then put these pictures into a movie sequence, it would appear to you that things moved 30 times faster than they did in real life. This is called TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY.

What you are doing in Time-Lapse Photography is leaving gaps in time - by taking only one picture per second instead of taking thirty pictures per second. In other words, you are taking some time out of the film sequence, so that one can see something that normally takes a long time occur in a matter of seconds or minutes.

The amount of time you allow to pass between shots depends mainly on what you have chosen as your subject and what effect you are trying to create.

For example, you might want to make a time lapse movie of a seed growing into a flower. This would take at least several days, depending on which flower you pick as your subject. It would therefore not make sense to take a picture every second. But you could set the camera up to take a picture every ten minutes. After 300 minutes (five hours) you would have

created one second of your “movie”. After 24 hours you would have roughly five seconds of your movie. If it took three days for your seed to flower, you would now have fifteen-second movie showing a seed growing into a flower.

Equipment Needed for Time-Lapse Photography:

A few short years ago, the costs involved made it virtually impossible for the average person to afford the creation of time lapse movies. But with inexpensive computers and digital cameras now available, most anyone can afford Time-Lapse Photography. All you need is the following:

1. A computer
2. A digital camera
3. Movie editing software

Digital cameras are now often sold with software that allows you to operate the camera through a computer, after you hook it up with a USB cable. Some cameras even come with time-lapse software, though it is not always labelled as such. (Sometimes it is referred to as "remote operation.")

Remote operation programs frequently allow you to tell your computer exactly how many pictures to take, and how much time should pass between the shots. And when you use the remote operation function with the camera connected to a computer, it even saves the pictures straight to your hard drive, in the folder that you specify. This makes it easy to drop the pictures into your movie editing program afterwards in order to create your time-lapse sequence.

There is one drawback - if you are using a desktop computer to control your camera, you are limited to photographing in the vicinity of your computer. But with a laptop, you would be able to move to more remote locations.

You will, however, still be limited to a certain degree by the battery lives of your computer and camera, unless you have a stable power supply. The more remote the location, the smarter you have to get. You might be able to connect to a car battery or even portable solar panels (as a car battery might be a little heavy to carry around).

How to Make a Time-Lapse Movie:

Set up a camera and focus it on a particular object or scene - such as a flower, a busy street, a highway, the sky on a partially-cloudy day... or if you are the adventurous type, set it up on a mountain top and photograph the clouds rolling in over the valley.

Next, set your camera up to take a picture once every 1-5 seconds, depending on what photographing and the effect you are trying to create.

Once you have a series of photos, arrange them into sequence in a movie editing program. Make sure that the sequence of pictures is run of at the speed of one frame per second (some movie editing programs automatically assign longer time intervals to still pictures that are imported).

If you've taken pictures of a partly cloudy sky, you would now see the clouds racing dramatically along the skies and evaporating into thin air along as the sun crosses the sky. If you are a patient person and you have planeted a seed and photographed it over a period of one week, you would now seethe flower bloom into life in a the matter of a few minutes. Whichever subject you chose, you will have a short movie of a rapidly changing scene.

As a final tip, adding the appropriate music to your time-lapse sequence can considerably improve the overall impression you create. You will be amazed what a difference it makes.

For an example of Time Lapse Photography, you may see a video here