I'm working at our District Fair this week and every morning I walk past the horse racing track, which caused me to recollect this:
I remember as a kid being fascinated by a trolley that would bring a cassette (or maybe a complete camera) from the infield of the track to the track steward's office near the grandstands. This has probably long been replaced with digital capture but back then a contact print would be hastily printed of the first horses crossing the finish line to prove which horse won "by a nose."
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some "photo finish" contact prints, I'm thinking 5x7s although I could be mistaken.
An idea what kind of camera race tracks used for this job? And how they were fired to capture the moment of victory?
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