Rare Photocorp Photo Finish Horse Racing Camera
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PHOTOCHART, INC.
HORSE RACING PHOTO FINISH CAMERA
PHOTOCHART, INC.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA
You will receive everything pictured. The last pix is a picture taken by this camera by the photographer I bought it from. I am no expert, it comes with two power supplies as pictured.
I HAVE DONE SOME RESEARCH IT SEEMS THAT IN 1937 Lorenzo Del Riccio, a Paramount Pictures engineer that worked in technical research laboratories created a strip camera that captured the precise moment of the finish of a race. (He tried this at the behest of Bing Crosby for the DelMar Race Track).
Del Riccio's strip camera solved the problem by eliminating the shutter entirely. It features an optical, vertical slit about .0080 of an inch wide. The camera is usually positioned both within the grandstand or on the roof, but directly above the finish line, and it's focused on a four-inch wide slice of track right at the finish line. When the field approaches the wire, an operator flips a switch and the film inside the camera starts to move at an estimated 55 feet per second, which is just about the speed of the horses. The leading parts of the horses are recorded by the moving film sequentially in direct proportion to the exact time that each part crosses in front of the slit.
Very historic for any horse racing or camera buff!
Thank you for looking.
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