Got roasted for my star trails having uneven gaps

A guy on here pointed out my 30-second exposures had 5-second gaps between them and they looked choppy. Switched to continuous shooting with an intervalometer and the trails came out silky smooth, anyone else get a basic thing wrong for way too long?

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lucasw843mo ago

You shooting at bulb mode or just relying on the timer?

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davis.olivia3mo ago

Oh man, I had a buddy who did the same thing for like two years. He was out in the desert shooting the Milky Way and his trails looked like a broken zipper. He kept blaming his cheap tripod until someone finally pointed out the gap was way too big. He felt so dumb but now he swears by his intervalometer and won't shut up about it.

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eva_moore3mo ago

Oh no, that's rough. I totally get the frustration though, it's so easy to overlook the little things when you're focused on the big picture.

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