In flight insect photo rig

[Modelworks]

Saw this on hack a day and thought some here might find it interesting. I'm nowhere near a pro photographer but the idea of photos of insects in flight sounds cool.


http://hackaday.com/2008/12/27...ight-insect-photo-rig/

this amazing looking set up is for photographing insects in flight. While this is similar to a past project we covered, this one seems to have several improvements. There are no longer any arms that you have to position on either side of the insect. This system uses an additional lens, picture at the top, to detect the reflected laser light off of an insect. Requiring only 40 microseconds to determine if the insect is in focus, capturing a flying wasp shouldn?t be too hard. You can see four lasers in the pictures, two are IR and used for focus, the other two are simply to help the operator target their bugs.

Better pic of rig at :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/f...set-72157611107153997/

Moved by moderator pm to the photography forum

 

[corkyg]

Very interesting for sure. Definitely not something for cell phone cameras!-

Might not this be better appreciated in the photography forum? (One notch above this one.)

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Very interesting for sure. Definitely not something for cell phone cameras!-

Might not this be better appreciated in the photography forum? (One notch above this one.)

Yeah, I clicked on the wrong forum

 

[corkyg]

Maybe the Mod will move it for you.

 

[scott916]

WOW. That's some insanely talented design.

 

[SaoFeng]

sick!!!