Home-brew high tech setup for photographing flying insects

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rjlittlefield
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Home-brew high tech setup for photographing flying insects

Post by rjlittlefield »

Some of you may be interested in an article that I ran into a few days ago.

Very briefly, this fellow built an auxiliary mechanical shutter that works with his Nikon D100 camera and a synchronizer built from laser pointers, to capture high speed flash photographs of flying insects about 6 ms after they enter the photo zone.

Particularly good photos at
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/vlb_foto/vlb_30984.htm butterfly
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/vlb_foto/vlb_31826.htm damselfly
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/vlb_foto/vlb_32173.htm wasp

Photo gallery begins at http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/beestjes ... _page1.htm .

Technical description begins at http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/laser_module1_E.htm .

The photographer's homepage is at http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/ .

This is interesting stuff to read about --- although I sure don't have time to try it myself!

Numerous other related projects can be turned up by Googling for sets of words like laser trigger flash flight insects .

--Rik

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