Electronic / Electromagnetic Shutter for Insects in Flight

[cws1745]

I am currently looking into the feasibility of building a rig to enable photographs of insects in flight.

I appreciate Cognisys have such a set-up - but at £3000 way out of my budget.

I believe I could build the control unit, laser and infra-red cross beams but the electromagnetic shutter might be a more difficult thing for me.

I'd appreciate any help, information, advice if anyone else is interested or has already built such a set-up.

With the forthcoming launch of new sensors from Sony, Nikon and Canon the other question is will the new sensors actually do away with shutter lag?

Best

Charles

[Pau]

You can also take a look at Frans (aka fotoopa) setups at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/albums

[Linden.g]

I got started by making one out of a computer hard-drive. It opened in 12 ms, however not as fast as the one Frans made. https://www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@ ... 697012197/