1. An apparatus for imaging a scene having apparent motion, the apparatus comprising: an area imaging device having a plurality of pixel sensors; a multi-axis positioning mechanism, the multi-axis positioning mechanism operable to move the area imaging device along a tracking axis; a control module configured to: direct the multi-axis positioning mechanism to set the tracking axis to be at least substantially parallel with the apparent motion; direct the multi-axis positioning mechanism to move the area imaging device in one or more cycles such that the area imaging device is moved, in each of the one or more cycles, forward along the tracking axis at a tracking speed that compensates for a speed of the apparent motion; and direct the area imaging device to take at least one exposure during each of the one or more cycles to generate one or more exposures; and an imaging module configured to form an image of the scene based at least one the one or more exposures.