Tyson Hedrick, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is using three highspeed cameras to determine what makes hawk moths so skilled at flying. Hedrick studies animal biomechan-ics and has been The imaging system allows Hedrick to film the hawk moth at the 1000 frames/sec he needed to capture the moth's wing movements. To ensure that no important shot was missed, Hedrick saved his footage using Vision Research's CineMag interface to cap- ture images from the camera's memory to a nonvolatile storage device in a matter of seconds. Hedrick knew the moths would only perform under the right lighting conditions and used infrared (IR) lighting, which was imperceptible to the insects.
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