Here you can see how I built a drill press, and consider the vacant spaces on the top of my head. It wasn’t very complicated, so the video is very short…
This was really just a quick test. I learned that I need to put the D700 in manual focus mode when using it’s time lapse function, and also that a period of 7 seconds is too slow to capture this sort of activity. I still fear for my shutter life when abusing the camera this way, so I will probably stick to my Powershot S3 and CHDK firmware for lengthly time lapse videos.