1. An image acquisition system comprising: a first image recording device that records a series of images of a subject; a lateral velocity vector estimator that receives the series of images from the first image recording device and estimates the lateral velocity vectors of the subject relative to the image acquisition system; and a second image recording device that includes an orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element which records a target image of the subject, the orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element including an array of pixels; a control that adjusts the array of pixels within the orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element based on the lateral velocity vector estimates provided by the lateral velocity estimator, wherein the control adjusts the array of pixels in single step shifts and multiple step shifts depending on the estimates of the lateral velocity vector of the subject relative to the image acquisition system.