Osprey Laser Ranger Finder with Speed reading

The optics of the Osprey are very dark coated lenses.

Flash above.  Here's the beam going off inside:

Here's the laser diode inside the Osprey:

Two views of the laser diode on the internal circuit board.

The laser medium seems to have a reflector around it.

Here it overpowers the video cameras sensitivity

but you can see each pulse (burst) being sent out in

a stream to reflect back with timing & distance data.

The beam pulses (per second) seem to be slow enough to be captured on video frames.

2 frames later:  Each frame is 1/30th of a second.

Kinda cool to catch each burst in mid flight.

Here's an overlay of two frames as the shutter of the digital camera caught the video

Here's an overlay of two frames as the shutter of the digital camera caught the video