[Leica] False start explained well

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Aram writes:
> 
> Hi Ted.  As a former track athlete and coach, this is one very perplexing
> 
> rule.  It has been around for quite some time, including those Olympics
> that
> you have shot.  Here are a few links:
> 
> http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/question702.htm
> http://www.condellpark.com/kd/reactiontime.htm
> 
> So, the anticipation of 0.10 seconds has been wired into starting blocks
> for
> decades, I believe.  It use to be that you were not DQ'd for a violation of
> the 0.10 second rule, and the race was just restarted, but I guess in 2003
> that changed.  Now this year they have changed again so you can be DQ'd
> after the first "false start".  No more one for free.
> 
> - - - - - -
> 
> The second URL explains the concept of false start and reaction time better
> than anything I have ever read. Although specific to track athletes, the
> data are applicable to photographers who question the relevance of exposure
> lag. Anticipation is the key to getting great pictures of spur of the 
> moment
> events. You simply can't react fast enough. Luck helps too.


so remember, take advantage.....photographers are rewarded, runners are 
penalized,


Steve
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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