A
few pieces of helpful advice which are worthy of sharing. Do you have
any more which would help the rest of us? If so, let's have them here.
Filming
Primes
Bob
Pinkerton
"When
filming a prime, always take a few more riders than are actually
needed for points. There's a chance that riders placed in a prime
may pack or are disqualified. In that case the judges will want
to know who else to give the prime awards to."
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Criteriums
John
Purdy
"Film
the entire field with a couple of laps to go. No need to look at
the picture, just save it. Any problem numbers in the final image
may be sorted by referring to the earlier picture. It might also
help the judges in trying to sort out lapped riders etc."
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Ethernet
cables
Knocker
Shields
"To
stop the little locking bar breaking off on the Ethernet cable plugs.
I bought two inline connectors. After dismantling the cable from
the camera and the laptop I plug it into the connectors which keeps
them safe when coiled up."
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Getting a readable image
John
Purdy
"If it's a sunny day you might find it difficult to eliminate the glare which can cause the riders' jerseys and numbers to be unreadable. First, try adjusting the white balance which might help. If that still does not work, make the image a bit too dark. You can enhance the picture later to bring up the detail, but you won't be able to get rid of any glare by making a bright image darker."
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Open
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| Documents |
Web
page |
PDF
document |
| Photofinish
Requirements Tom
produced a great little document to send to race organisers. It lets
them know how riders need to fix their numbers so that they can be
seen by the camera. |
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| Number
Position
From Phil Wilkinson, Rockingham Forest Wheelers. A neat little pic
to send to organisers in conjunction with the above document. |
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| Lynx
Capture Button Modification
of Lynx capture button cable and serial/USB cable to fit new laptops. |
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| Finish
line finder From
the Lynx website. How to get a better camera alignment with the finishing
line. It shouldn't be necessary for us, although a two-camera setup
would benefit. |
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| Erecting
the tripods Roger's
clear and concise description showing how to set up the large tripods. |
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| Attaching
camera to new tripod Roger's
neat file showing the various parts of the camera clamp. I've taken
the liberty of adding one of Tom's pictures to highlight how it fits
to the tripod. |
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| Repairing
camera lens clip The
lens retaining clips on the cameras are pretty flimsy and tend to
break. Bob has looked at the problem and here's his technique for
repairing them. |
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| Multiple
Region Enhancement This
document outlines the method of creating multiple regions within the
image pane. |
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| FinishLynx
setup Bob's
put together a quick setup guide as an aid for new operators. We used
to have one for the OPS2, so why not now? |
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