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grmarcil
on April 29, 2021
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Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo...
It is a kind of rolling shutter effect, but you're misunderstanding the finish camera's design - they capture a single column of pixels and the horizontal axis is actually time. This is why the background of photofinishes is a bunch of streaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_finish#Strip_photography
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