Is there any where to setup a camera to take a picture when a flash is fired?

tkbslc wrote in post #10363717
I would think a scratched reflective cover would produce similar glare patterns. Like trying to flash through aquarium glass.

Probably the easiest solution is just not to push it on the yellow lights. Safer and no tickets (but no fun, right?)

The ticket I got was not coming to a complete stop when taking a free right.
I was wondering how they could prove it from a picture. When I went to the private company that is contracted website that is when I saw the video

I think this is more about making money and not so much about safety.

ofdphoto wrote in post #10363569
Short answer: no.

Long answer: it should be pretty easy to rig up an optical trigger to fire your camera, but allowing for the delay between triggering the camera and the shutter actually opening, the light will be long gone before your camera catches up.

Yep, that was my thought too. An optical slave trigger does nothing more than create a contact closure when it senses a strobe firing. That's all that triggers the flash attached to it, and with the right cable, that's all that would be needed to have that optical slave fire the camera when it senses another flash firing, but the timing would be way off, drat.....seems like such a neat idea too.

J Kacey wrote in post #10363744
The ticket I got was not coming to a complete stop when taking a free right.
I was wondering how they could prove it from a picture. When I went to the private company that is contracted website that is when I saw the video

I think this is more about making money and not so much about safety.

BINGO!!!

You've just learned the first lesson about red light cameras, they have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with making money for the cities and towns that use them.

Funny thing is, in some towns, after a while they end up taking them out. Once the motorists know where the cameras are, they either avoid the intersections if possible or are extra careful when they are in them. The only people getting caught are out-of-towers or just stupid locals. Revenue from the cameras falls off drastically and soon its barely enough to pay for the service and have anything left over (the companies that install and maintain them charge the towns a pretty hefty fee), so they simply do away with them. The spin they give the public for their removal is that the cameras have done such a great job of reducing accidents at those intersections that they're no longer needed..........and the gullible public fall for it.

If you feel the ticket was unjust you can fight it. There have been many cases of tickets issued to people turning right on red that the cameras though were violations. In your case if you didn't come to a complete stop then they've probably got you, but it is possible to challenge the cameras if you really believe you were unfairly ticketed.

DennisW1 wrote in post #10503909
Funny thing is, in some towns, after a while they end up taking them out.

I live and work close to Woodfield Mall in Illinois, and there was a red light camera a block or two from the mall, which was the highest grossing red light camera in IL within it's first week. Woodfield threatened to leave Schaumburg if they didn't remove the camera, since they claimed it was/would severly affect their business. It was gone almost immediately.

Kacey wrote in post #10363744
I think this is more about making money and not so much about safety.

Ya think?

I'm observing, lately, that a disturbing percentage of what law enforcement and municipal judiciary do is about making money and not 'safety' nor the 'right thing'.