A FinishLynx® picture is comprised of thousands of incredibly thin individual images of the finish line itself, and ONLY the finish line. These "slivers" are taken many hundreds of times per second and displayed side by side. Each "image" displays the activity that was taking place on the finish lines at that split second. Thus, as you view a FinishLynx picture left to right represents time, rather than space, as in a normal photograph. The boats on the right-hand side of the image crossed the finish line before the boats on the left.

But where is the finish line?

The camera takes repeated images of the finish line, and ONLY the finish line. The entire image is the finish line. You're seeing how the activity at one location (the finish line) changes over time.

Why do the oars look bent? Why is bow-seat at the catch, and stroke-seat at the finish??

The camera captures only a sliver of a movement, and the rowers and their oars change position as they row across the line, the bodies and oars are in a different position when the camera records each sliver. When the slivers showing the movement are "assembled" in to a picture, the oars look "bent".

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