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• Add Color functionality to your camera at any time and make this transformation:

       

  
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• RadioLynx /  Serial Wireless Plugin     - wireless start signal transmission that eliminates the need for start sensor cables running back to the FinishLynx connection box.

  

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• Easy to adjust geared head makes precise manual camera alignment easier than ever before. Click here for details.

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• Remote controlled positioning platform that allows precise camera positioning directly from within the FinishLynx software - needed for auto-alignment feature of FinishLynx 4.2 and above
  
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• Nikon lens mount with or without a through-the-lens viewer - by looking through the eyepiece marked in red on the image below, the operator can align the camera precisely on the finish line.
  
  
  

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• As well as the powerful telephoto lens illustrated above, a wide range of alternative lens options are available
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• Camera mounting pole - shown full height and half height.

 

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• Electronic Starting System - no gun.

The latest development of the FinishLynx® software is now available. This latest version now supports the new Enhanced High Resolution camera and the addition of several FinishLynx® PLUG INS. 

The latest version is free and can be downloaded from the web site.  

The plug ins are optional items that can be bought by contacting Lynx sales at 978.556.9780

• Multiple Split Interface LPMSI

This plugin will allow the operator to capture multiple ‘finishes’ within a single race. This can either be configured so that a single camera takes multiple pictures at different times (i.e. every lap of a 4 x 400 relay in athletic applications), or so that multiple cameras take pictures at different positions and times during a race (i.e. ¼, ½ , ¾  mile splits in a thoroughbred mile race).

Camera information can be configured for each ‘split’ and the capture capability can be automatically configured – to capture for a given time at a given moment, or manually switched by the FinishLynx® operator from within the software.

Note that MSI does not work with SCSI hardware. FinishLynx® will act as if the plug-in is not present if using SCSI hardware.

•  ACM (Automatic Capture Module)

With this plugin, the camera can be configured to take pictures AUTOMATICALLY - without the need for the capture button. Unbelievable as this may sound, the camera now KNOWS when there is activity at the finish line - without the use of chunky photo beams or other optical/mechanical triggering devices  - and takes the picture of the finishers. The feature also has the ability to use the camera as a surrogate photobeam to drive running-time clocks.  All in all, it is possibly the most revolutionary advance in digital photo-finish technology since the first FinishLynx® system.

• MRE (Multiple Region Enhancement )

In some lighting conditions, the view of the finish line seen by the camera may be divided into well lit areas and significantly darker areas. This most often occurs when a shadow falls across a portion of the finish line.

With the MRE plugin the Lynx operator can define specific areas of the field of view for electronic enhancement. With this plugin, the operator can set the image exposure for the brighter areas of the track and use the MRE feature to pull viable image from the darker areas. These settings are “sticky” and will stay from one event to the next. Like the standard enhancement feature, the enhancement can easily be undone – even after the image is saved.

• Lap Time (LT)

With FinishLynx 4.0 this plugin can generate lap times using evaluated times taken from the FinishLynx image, or when connected to an appropriate external signal generator, (for example a Tag Heuer PTB 605) it will enable the FinishLynx operator to store lap times for every competitor. The Lap Time plugin stores times for every lap of a multi-lap race and outputs these split times with the results. In this way an accurate lap-count is also maintained. This information updates in real time and can be fed to a scoreboard or a computer running ResulTV directly from FinishLynx.  

This plugin will enables FinishLynx to store every lap time for every competitor of a multi-lap race. In this way an accurate lap-count is also maintained. This information updates in real time and can be fed to a scoreboard or a computer running ResulTV directly from FinishLynx.

These Lap Time signals are generated by a compatible external device and provided to FinishLynx over a serial data connection. The software has the capability of verifying that the elapsed lap times fall within a preset time spectrum.  If desired the splits can be printed with the results and there is an option for split times to be saved with the FinishLynx *.LIF file.

• Serial Wireless (SW)

The serial wireless plug-in allows a FinishLynx user to connect any number of start sensors and photoeyes to their FinishLynx system wirelessly. For example, a track & field customer can have a Start Sensor connected to a wireless signal transmitter that the starter carries around on his belt, and photoeyes at each corner of the track for the ultimate in flexibility in obtaining splits.

The photoeyes can be activated and deactivated fairly easily so the FinishLynx Operator can set up a 1500m race where they take 400, 800, and 1200 splits from one photoeye, and then take the 1500 split from a different photoeye. 

An added advantage of these devices is that any signal they receive can be automatically retransmitted up to 16 times until the receiver acknowledges receipt. FinishLynx will then retroactively start the clock, or take a split, based on the signal timestamp and not on when the signal was received. This is a significant improvement over previous technologies where the impulse was transmitted once and if it was missed (because of radio interference or the like), it was gone for good.

• New NCP (Network COM Port) Plug-in available

The FinishLynx NCP (Network COM Port) Plug-in allows you to use a single FinishLynx computer to communicate with multiple serial devices directly through TCP sockets instead of serial ports. 

With the help of SeriaLynx, you can put serial devices such as scoreboards, wind gauges, and lap timers on a wired or wireless Ethernet network and then use the NCP Plug-in to enable FinishLynx to communicate with those devices.

•  Handheld computer for field event scoring and administration

•  Laser Electronic Distance Measurement

•  False Start Detection Systems for running events