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If you play the video at 30 frames/s, taking one picture/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time lapse at one picture/second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speedup is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of course if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it can be a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors. This would also be true if you drive your car in a desert (vs. in a forest or downtown). But picturesque waterways are rare in a very open landscape.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the pictures, you can't fix it later.

If you play the video at 30 frames/s, taking one picture/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time lapse at one picture/second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speedup is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of course if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it can be a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors. This would also be true if you drive your car in a desert (vs. in a forest or downtown). But picturesque waterways are seldom in a very open landscape.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, and require more storage(*) and/or battery capacity but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the pictures, you can't fix it later.

(*) Of course for a time lapse, you may set your camera to a lower resolution or lesser JPEG quality.

If you play the video at 30 frames/s, taking one picture/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time lapse at one picture/second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speed up is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of ycourse if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it canbe a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors. This would also be true if you drive your car in a desert (vs in a forest or downtown). But picturesque waterways are rarely in a very open landscape.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the pictures, you can't fix it later.

If you play the video at 30 frames/s, taking one picture/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time lapse at one picture/second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speedup is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of course if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it can be a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors. This would also be true if you drive your car in a desert (vs. in a forest or downtown). But picturesque waterways are rare in a very open landscape.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the pictures, you can't fix it later.

If you play the video at 30 frames/s, make one shot/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time laps at one/shot second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speed up is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of ycourse if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it canbe a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the picture, you can't fix it later.

If you play the video at 30 frames/s, taking one picture/second is a 30x speedup. If your boat sails at 3mph, the time lapse at one picture/second will be a simulated 90mph. How much of a road can you see driving a car at that speed?

Taking the problem by the other end, figure out your "cruise" speed when in a car, divide by the boat speed. This is your "acceptable speedup". This speed up is your timelapse image interval multiplied by the framerate of the playback (20-30fps).

Of ycourse if you want to shoot the whole cruise (say 3 hours=10000s) and make that a 10mn video (600 seconds) then you have to take 12000 pictures, roughly one picture/second but it canbe a bit fast.

Keep in mind that the fjord cruise is taken from high above water in a wide fjord, so the feel of the speed is much less and you can use greater speedup factors. This would also be true if you drive your car in a desert (vs in a forest or downtown). But picturesque waterways are rarely in a very open landscape.

Last, shooting too fast may induce more wear in the camera, but you can drop frames to slow down the final video. If you are too slow when taking the pictures, you can't fix it later.