LifeLapse London To Bangkok
Just loaded up the below video showing off the LifeLapse app!
It's an amazing app that basically creates a Timelapse of your day whilst you wear your iPhone around your neck...
The battery life lasted surprisingly long in my daily tests but thankfully I managed to get hold of another iPhone before the trip and so had this in airplane mode the entire trip...
The trip lasted a total of 4 days, including the flying etc. and the app only really had a few bugs
none of which impacted the taking of pictures!
I did learn however that hitting the sleep/wake button tended to either close the app entirely
or conserve a bit more battery whilst still having the app running, quite strange as it was random
as to when the App would close or would stay open whenever the sleep/wake button was hit
Instead I just didn't hit that button and charged the phone every night, which by the way,
I started the day at 9am and ended at around 3am some days and still have approx.
30%-45% of battery life left...
(I'm sure this is just a bug as the only other bug that occurred was my pictures not showing up
in the LifeLapse gallery within the App but a quick check in iTunes and the continuous rolling count of
the number of pictures I took (in excess of 1000+ so you can imagine my concern when I don't even know
if they are saved or not) kept me sane enough knowing that everything was A-OK and even though I did draw
some attention to myself it wasn't all pointless.
The ability to use LifeLapse in landscape was thanks to a Gary Fong Tripod Adapter and C-Loop or as I call it a CSLR (for those wondering about the back of my iPhone, you can grab one at iFixIt).
Although there is probably a cheaper option of making a pouch and having it in portrait mode
as I know LifeLapse are going to have a LifeLapse pouch for the iPhone to accompany the App,
however, Portrait didn't seem to feel right and in the spirit of YouTube videos I figured I'd rather keep
The rest...is as they say history. It's an amazing app for those that enjoy sharing their travels and have an interesting life. I am however, obviously not one of those people that are interesting, I just enjoy sharing my travels.
When it hits the App Store do grab it if you are one of those interesting people!
The LifeLapse pouch is also probably a lot less likely to gain any attention on the streets unlike my set up.
So do follow @LifeLapse and check out their site and sign up to know when it's all going down -> LifeLapse
Hands down probably the one app that's got a lot of use other than the usual suspects, Twitter and the like.
(and no, I'm not affiliated or anything with LifeLapse)