That rolling shutter
I was just thinking, do they not have high speed global shutter cameras for this purpose?
Seems like the Olympic athletics would be one of the obvious applications of that kind of camera
It’s by design. They photograph only one slice repeatedly at the finish and then paste them all together. That means that everything you see here was at the same location, not at the same moment in time.
everything you see here was at the same location, not at the same moment in time.
Wouldn’t that mean that it shows everyone crossing the finish line at the same time? Since they were all at that location eventually.
(I’ve read the wikipedia page and the rest of the comments here, but I still don’t get what’s going on.)
Imagine a camera with only one column of pixels, so a resolution of 1x3000, for example. You point it in a fixed direction and you keep firing extremely fast. Eventually you’ve photographed everything that has passed the camera. Paste the pixels together from right to left, and you’ve got something resembling a normal photograph, but with some distortions due to the time difference between the photos. For example, if someone put their foot on the ground in front of the camera, it will be stationary between photos and appear smeared out in the final result. Since every column of pictures is made at the exact same location, you can determine that the person on the right has finished first and the person on the left last. They apparently measure this at the level of the torso (the red lines).
