Time Lapse works and is cool, but it gets a lot of frames on each lapse, as everybody mentions. If you have Adobe Premiere you con connect the camera via Firewire and use the time lapse capture utility in Premiere, which is much more versatile and you don't even need a tape. However you will have to carry the computer around to do it, which you can do if you have a laptop and power or if you are working indoors. For real portable time lapse, you have to either go manual and use the still picture function or deal with the extra frames in some way, which is really not so difficult.