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Re: Question for Jeff Foster and Dave Kommel
[QUOTE] And once again, flash pictures should NEVER be taken until both cars have left the starting line. I hope you will tell other photographers this because there should NEVER be a rerun because of a photographer. [QUOTE]
I fully agree!!!! What is more important?
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Many electronic flash systems have a capacitor that can generate several hundred volts and the energy is measured by Watts-Second. Again, if by coincidence the flash is on the line-of-sight, it can trigger the photocell or infrared. |
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Do you have a link or a demonstration to back this up? An infrared sensor should only respond to infrared light. It shouldn't matter how many volts or watt-seconds the light is. The wavelength of visible light is different than IR light. I agree that a camera flash could trigger a photocell, but not an IR sensor. |
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The camera flash thing is bs. The car doesn't even light the bulbs when his rear ties rolled through. If the camera was a problem it wouldn't make both of the lights go out they would blink, but what would I know I'm just using common sense. The main problem is the compulink system works off of a DOS system my cell phone has more technology than a compulink computer. Come one NHRA I think it's time to upgrade your POS timing system. I was involved in two reruns last year one at a big money bracket race and one at the Dallas national both were using compulink. NHRA needs to stop making up excuses and fix that outdated equipment.
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I've been bitten by the camera flash thing a few times, once at Bakersfield points race in the final and I was chasing a slower car, the perp. was on my opponents side of the track and before the 60' clocks. That flash shot straight thru the tree into my face. Me and him had a few words afterwards !! Mike R was involved in the discussions as well.
NO RE-RUN !!!!!!!!!!!! The other significant time was in the final at Atlanta Nat., I was driving pretty good but I got a red against me in the semi's and my tree was off, at that point ya gotta blow it off but the same thing happened in the final with a more slower car and I sucked again, even mentioned it in the winners story in ND. Wasn't until I got the ND that I noticed the shot of Scott H's Q car leaving with a shot from behind that i understood the problem that time. There was more than one flash that time !! Sorry Dave, but Toby is right, there should not be any flash photography until both cars leave. Even with the slightest chance of the flash being seen by any driver, where does it say that a photographer should be able to control the outcome of a race !! NUFF SAID !!!
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I think before anyone flies off the handle as to the root cause of the problem, I'd like to see it duplicated as Bill Koski suggests. If it was caused by a photographer's flash (No it wasn't me as I was shooting top end at the time), I had thought we fixed the problem of "shine-back" we used to have with the old spotlight and photocells where flash/sunlight/moonlight/whatever would cause a red light even though the car hadn't moved. Again, I thought going to the infrareds stopped that problem. My question is if it's back, should we be going back to black front wheels or shoe polishing them like we used to do?
Now if the problem is an infrared signal coming from the camera to light a flash, I didn't notice anyone on the starting line when I was there using remote triggering of flashes. That doesn't mean the camera wasn't still emitting an infrared signal anyway, but that's beyond my knowledge of cameras. I've also had "red-light problem" happen to me and I never liked nor understood the answers given as to the cause. Other than wanting to see it duplicated, the only question I have is: Do we have to go back to black wheels? When I cover the high dollar bracket races, I'm usually told not to use flashes near the starting line at night. But I too have been in the finals of a race when I staged and noticed what seemed like dozens of flashes going off in the corner of my eye. While I might not like it, it's just something you have to put out of your mind and concentrate. And of course, that also precludes us from having any final round photos. For now though, as Bill said, I'd like to see it duplicated.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9h_IGDhxxs"]2011 NHRA Winternationals Super Stock Round 1 - YouTube[/ame]
19 minutes in. The photographer is about even with the back of the Camaro. Flash double flashes and red light immediately comes on. If it was the cause the camera was not in line with the starting line. Coincidence? This was 2 years ago.... Last edited by Jody Lang; 02-19-2013 at 04:53 PM. Reason: To give the minute mark |
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We had a pretty good debate about that 2 yrs ago, see Red Light Answer thread a few post down.
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Re: Question for Jeff Foster and Dave Kommel
Jody, the multiple flashes are called "Burst Flash" and they are used in high speed photography. During the burst flash, the flash fires several bursts in a single exposure.
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