Photographer Dr. Adrian Smith uses a high-speed camera to capture an insect that many have not seen up-close, moths. That’s right, seven different species of moths are captured at 6,000 frames per second with a macro lens, providing viewers with at how some of these creatures take flight, complete with wing movements. The most colorful of the bunch? A quirky rosy maple moth, which lives across the eastern United States and adjacent regions of Canada.
The photography equipment used was not mentioned, but one high-speed camera we know can capture footage at 6000 frames per second is the Phantom v2640. This camera features a 4-million-pixel sensor and an ultra short ‘shutter speed’ of 142 nanoseconds, enabling it to reach speeds of up to 6,600fps at full resolution. If you reduce the resolution, the camera can shoot footage even faster.
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I think all science boils down to trying to do things in order to see and appreciate the world in a new way. Most of the time, that means doing experiments, gathering data, and testing hypotheses, but sometimes, I think the most useful thing to do as a scientist is to point to the fancy science cameras at some moths flapping their wings in front of a purple backdrop,” said the photographer.
