Silkworm Munching a Mulberry Leaf Video

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy All,

I thought I'd share a video that I made today. It's a test video of a silkworm munching on a Mulberry leaf. I was testing my new Canon T2i using my new 100mm 2.8L IS USM macro. It makes great 1080p high def videos but I thought I'd try the T2i's 640x480 zoom mode and upload that one to YouTube first. It compressed from a 117MB .mov format to a 48MB .AVI file. 3 minutes of a .mov made using the T2i is about 1GB . I'll post more of them later .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okVSw8NhaOo

 

[Syn]

Wow, that's really amazing... yet revolting at the same time. Bugs will never be something I will truly be able to tolerate!

Thank you for sharing.

 

[laurie]

Did you speed that up lots? The silkworm looked like it was on speed. Excellent video.

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy Laurie and Syn,

Funny, it does look sped-up but that's really running at normal speed .

When my wife saw it, she got the creeps too .

Past my bedtime -- Signing off .

 

[laurie]

Thanks Dave, I wasn't creeped out, I was fascinated. Knowing it was real time makes it even better! Thanks.

 

[serenitystarlite]

I knew I shouldn't have clicked that while I was eating lol. But it was definitely a great video, and neat to see it close up like that. Nice camera!

 

[summoner12]

amazing stuff Dave!

 

[reptoman]

Very cool video Dave. Amamzing detail!