Excellent video! I've been a photofinish timer for about 20 years. I actually own my own timing company that does this. Nice to see a video that finally explains what I do really well. This is where I'm gonna start sending ppl when they ask me what I do for a living. Because even after 20 years, I still have a hard time explaining it in simple terms 🤣
Thanks for the great explanation. Watching the olympics, it seemed intuitive that the x-axis of photo-finish images represented time instead of distance, but it wasn't clear how the image was created. "A regular photo records different locations at the same time, whereas a photo-finish records the same location at different times" that's a good summary
Great video! I had also done research into it and the thing I struggled with the most was what the photo finish accomplishes that a regular camera couldn't (i.e. a regular camera also shows one person ahead of the other). But I really appreciated you explaining that the race organizers can actually get timing data from this!
Also since you only have to take pictures of a strip, (A line of pixels rather than the whole rectangle) you can sample at higher speeds so you can get capture a very small difference in timing!
The logo isn't just to get the brand name in front of billions watching around the world, its primary purpose is to help ensure all the cameras mounted in the stands are correctly aligned to the leading edge of the finish line.
Excellent video! I've been a photofinish timer for about 20 years. I actually own my own timing company that does this. Nice to see a video that finally explains what I do really well. This is where I'm gonna start sending ppl when they ask me what I do for a living. Because even after 20 years, I still have a hard time explaining it in simple terms 🤣
Thank you for the comment. Its always nice to hear that the video proved useful to someone in the industry!
Thanks for the great explanation. Watching the olympics, it seemed intuitive that the x-axis of photo-finish images represented time instead of distance, but it wasn't clear how the image was created. "A regular photo records different locations at the same time, whereas a photo-finish records the same location at different times" that's a good summary
I'm glad the explanation was clear! I was also confused when i saw the photo finish images...
And now it’s the summer Olympics and the 100m photo finish was crazy! Great video!
That was a crazy race!!! Glad you like the video
Finally someone explained the background because that part fuvked me up
this explained it so well i was super confused before, the examples you took the time to make were perfect for dumbing it down
Thanks for watching!
Great video! I had also done research into it and the thing I struggled with the most was what the photo finish accomplishes that a regular camera couldn't (i.e. a regular camera also shows one person ahead of the other). But I really appreciated you explaining that the race organizers can actually get timing data from this!
Also since you only have to take pictures of a strip, (A line of pixels rather than the whole rectangle) you can sample at higher speeds so you can get capture a very small difference in timing!
Very clear and easy to understand explanation, great video!
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it!
after watching a few videos finally understood what's happening in a photo finish. great work
Glad it helped!
Finally someone explains it well.
Thanks for the comment!!!
awsome video, very well explained thank you
Thank you for watching!
can you share the phyton code?
The Omega strip prevents sneaking into the data and manipulate, it's like timestamps
Thats also a good point. I had not thought of that!
Thanks for creating a video that I can point people to when they ask what I do as a photo finish judge :)
Thank you!! glad to know there are people out there doing this.
yo where'd you get that script? I gotta get that script
What a lovely video!
OMG Karen helped explain things! This is too good! hahaha
Never would have expected that from Karen!
best explanation ever! ❤
Thank you!!!
Great video!
Thanks ben! nice to see you here!
Sneaky omega marketing department!!!
So sneaky....
best part of the video
The logo isn't just to get the brand name in front of billions watching around the world, its primary purpose is to help ensure all the cameras mounted in the stands are correctly aligned to the leading edge of the finish line.
@@201081hero True, but there would also be other ways to check the alignment :)
@@vatbub Maybe but this is one of the easiest ways and seeing as it would have to be a moving image why not take advantage of the situation.