Can a Canon 70D shoot a time-lapse without a laptop?
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I want to shoot a time-lapse with a Canon 70D without using a laptop. Can I trigger the camera at set intervals using a remote shutter, phone/tablet app, or another accessory? Also, can the 70D turn those still frames into a finished time-lapse video in-camera?
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If you're asking how to take the images for a timelapse, what you're looking for is an intervalometer. And yes, there are several ways of achieving this, aside from a smartphone/tablet and the Canon EOS app. There are several smartphone apps that can do this. There are hardware intervalometers built into cable shutter releases. There are dedicated (mostly Arduino-based) devices, and there is the Magic Lantern firmware add-on (which, at the time of writing is not compatible with the 70D and only in early development).
If you're asking is there a way to combine the individual frames into a video file format without using a computer, I think the answer is no. The 70D does not have the capability of creating a video clip from time-lapse frames
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Yes. To capture the frames for a time-lapse, you need an intervalometer—something that triggers the shutter at set intervals. On a Canon 70D, that can be done in several ways:
- a smartphone/tablet app
- a hardware cable release with built-in intervalometer
- a dedicated external intervalometer device
Magic Lantern has also been used for this on some Canon cameras, but compatibility for the 70D was noted as limited/early, so it’s not the safest assumption.
If your question is about creating the final video file in-camera from those still images, then no—the 70D does not have built-in time-lapse movie assembly from still frames. You can shoot the sequence without a laptop, but you’ll still need separate software later to combine the images into a video.
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