{"id":197,"date":"2006-05-30T23:37:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-05-30\/197"},"modified":"2006-05-30T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T14:37:35","slug":"cool-method-to-photograph-flying-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-05-30\/197","title":{"rendered":"Cool Method to Photograph Flying Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n   \n\n<p>\n\nI'm pretty good at creating software, but for me it's <span class='nobr'>a very<\/span> different\nstory when it comes to electronics and mechanics, so it was with great awe\nthat <span class='nobr'>I read<\/span> one man's attempt to <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/fotoopa\/laser_module1_E.htm\">photograph\ninsects in flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nHis saga has 10 pages, starting out with <span class='nobr'>a laser<\/span> sensor he built to trigger\nthe camera when <span class='nobr'>a bug<\/span> is in the right spot, and includes taking apart <span class='nobr'>a\n1950s<\/span> mechanical shutter, finding <span class='nobr'>a way<\/span> to open and close the shutter with\nelectromagnets 20x faster than his modern digital SLR camera's shutter lag,\nand, well, <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of smarts. <span class='nobr'>He even mills<\/span> his own lens adaptor rings from <span class='nobr'>a\nblock<\/span> of aluminum. <span class='nobr'>It's a great<\/span> story of ingenuity and perseverance.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nElsewhere on his site he has <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of very interesting high-speed\nphotography, such as <span class='nobr'>a sequence<\/span> of a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/fotoopa\/highspeed_frame_set.htm\">bullet\npiercing <span class='nobr'>a soap<\/span> bubble<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>The images<\/span> are interesting, but the\ndescriptions of how he was able to take them are even more so.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nWhat a smart, cool guy.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I'm pretty good at creating software, but for me it's a very different story when it comes to electronics and mechanics, so it was with great awe that I read one man's attempt to photograph insects in flight.<\/p> <p> His saga has 10 pages, starting out with a laser sensor he built to trigger the camera when a bug is in the right spot, and includes taking apart a 1950s mechanical shutter, finding a way to open and close the shutter with electromagnets 20x faster than his modern digital SLR camera's shutter lag, and, well, a lot of smarts. [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}