San Francisco Sunset Timelapse I

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I brought the HVX200 to work this past week to shoot some 60fps reference during lunchtime, and I decided once I was done, it might be cool to set the camera up to capture a timelapse out of our office window. We've had some stellar sunsets out here in San Francisco as of late, and I thought I might just try and snag one.

What you see is 1 frame captured for every 10 seconds that went by, from approximately 3pm to 6:30pm. That's CA route 101 in the bottom of frame, and you can see right around rush hour how the frequency of cars increases dramatically.

All in all I would call it a success, but really in order to get the best exposure I'd have to ride the manual iris control, so that the sun doesn't completely blow out to white when it comes into frame. Perhaps in version II I can improve upon this. Aside from these few technical criticisms, I'm very pleased with the result.