Industries · Photography and film
Long-term time lapse cameras for photographers and production studios.
Seasons turning, a city rising, an event that transforms a city. Buildcam TL captures the long shot unattended, for weeks or years, while you work on everything else.
- 24MP
- Mirrorless time lapse
- Set and forget
- Solar powered, 4G connected
- Fast and easy installation
- Under an hour
- Sentinel OS
- Every frame in your pocket
Time lapse photography from the comfort of your pocket.
Long-term time lapse photography needs a camera that keeps shooting through weather, power cuts and months of nobody checking on it. Buildcam TL is a mirrorless time lapse camera in an IP66 housing, running on solar power and 4G. It captures every frame on schedule and sends it to Sentinel OS, the intelligent software platform behind every Buildcam camera, where you can pull a single still, a phase or the whole film.
Photographers and studios use it for construction time lapse video, event builds, stadium fills and production diaries. One camera, running continuously, turns a long project into a deliverable.
How it works
How long-term time lapse works with Buildcam TL
Set it up once
Mount Buildcam TL on a pole, a rooftop or a fixed structure with the view you want. It carries its own solar panel and battery and connects over 4G, so the location needs no power or Wi-Fi.
It shoots on schedule, unattended
The camera captures frames on a set schedule and uploads each one, for weeks, months or years. You don't need to go back to swap cards or batteries.
Pull the shot whenever you need it
Every frame lands in Sentinel OS at full resolution. Scrub to any date, export a single still or a whole phase, and share a project link with your client while the shoot is still running.
On your production
Long-form stories, captured automatically
Construction time lapse video
Document a build for a developer, builder or architect, and deliver the film at the end.
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Event and stadium builds
Show a stage rising or a stadium filling, with no crew needed on the day.
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Production diaries and behind the scenes
Capture a set being built or a location being transformed.
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Client deliverables on demand
Pull a still from any date or share a project link with your client whenever they ask.
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Landscape and seasonal change
Seasons turning over a valley or a coastline, captured for months without a return trip.
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Architecture and developer portfolios
Give an architect or developer a time lapse of the finished building for award entries, sales and their own portfolio.
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See the site change, day by day, with Time Portal.
Compare any two dates across the frame, or drag a window across the image to reveal an earlier state beneath the present. Every frame on the timeline, ready when the client asks.
Explore Time Portal in Sentinel OSPortal mode. Drag inside the window to move it, drag a corner to resize, or draw a new window anywhere on the frame.
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Every frame from day one, in full resolution.
Scrub the timeline, jump to any date, narrow to a single camera and export exactly what you need, from one still to a whole phase.
- Complete archive, kept for the life of your subscription
- Capture-day markers show which days have footage
- Export any frame or range in full resolution
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The hardware
Three cameras. One for every type of shoot.
Buildcam TL for high-resolution mirrorless time lapse, Buildcam LS for 4K livestream, and Buildcam Pro for both. Solar powered, 4G connected, and built to run unattended for months.
Industry: Photography
Questions about long-term time lapse.
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Put your next production on permanent record.
Tell us about the location and the timeline, and we'll confirm the camera setup. Working with clients on repeat projects? Ask about working with us as a partner.
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