Does anyone know how speed Cameras work in Mississauga? I was doing 33-34 in a 30 zone. The camera was facing car on my side of the road. Does it take pics from front?
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I wouldn't be surprised if they can, considering the tech they have today? No doubt in my mind.
Man 30 is walking speed. Ticket for 2-3 km over
Meanwhile people do 60-70 on my street in a 40 zone.
Also if this is the case, too bad I wasn't visiting from Montreal. They don't have front plates.
I believe they still use film, from the back not the front photo. IF still Film I can't see the film roll being more than 50?
Nope, if it is film it is 100' rolls of 35mm film. But might not be exposed like in a 35mm camera, so more frames are possible. It would be triggered to take a few frames after the red light trigger is activated from a combo of a passage loop in the road on the red light, and a signal from the traffic controller that the light is currently in red for the camera aim direction. Or if deployed as a speed camera when the radar speed sensor is triggered.
I still play in a wet film darkroom in my basement and one of the few affordable ways of buying colour neg film is to get online and buy 100' spools of 400iso C-41 traffic camera film. then bulk load it to cassettes to use in my cameras. I typically load out 18or 19 36 exposures from 100' of film depending on how much I leave for the starting leader.
But I would be tempted to believe the imaging is digital on the newest deployments.
The machine vision can see when the light is red, and when cars are moving past on the red approach,
It can also compute speed just by how fast the car moves through the frame.
And then command the digital image capture to store the approach view from the short term image buffering, and then also grab the departing frame, and pour the right information into the image itself and into the metadata.
But picking up the data might still have a need to go out and swap out the full memory cards.
I still play in a wet film darkroom in my basement and one of the few affordable ways of buying colour neg film is to get online and buy 100' spools of 400iso C-41 traffic camera film. then bulk load it to cassettes to use in my cameras. I typically load out 18or 19 36 exposures from 100' of film depending on how much I leave for the starting leader.
But I would be tempted to believe the imaging is digital on the newest deployments.
The machine vision can see when the light is red, and when cars are moving past on the red approach,
It can also compute speed just by how fast the car moves through the frame.
And then command the digital image capture to store the approach view from the short term image buffering, and then also grab the departing frame, and pour the right information into the image itself and into the metadata.
But picking up the data might still have a need to go out and swap out the full memory cards.
I was referring to 50 frames or exposures not feet. I think the max amount of frames old consumer regular cameras took was 36 photos, I believe.
Petition for a speed camera...Man 30 is walking speed. Ticket for 2-3 km over
I don’t think they’ll issue a ticket if you were only a few klicks over the limit; I think they only go out if you are above a pre-determined speed (50 kn/hr?). I dunno for sure but they have those in my neighbourhood too and so far I’ve been okay.
I've gotten a ticket for doing 61km/h in a 50km/h zone. I know someone who got a ticket for doing 50km/h in a 30km/h zone.
It's pretty consistent across the GTA, and cities install speed enforcement cameras in either school areas that areas that historically have had more vehicle accidents.
It's pretty consistent across the GTA, and cities install speed enforcement cameras in either school areas that areas that historically have had more vehicle accidents.
I've had 2 in the last few months! One in Toronto and one in Quebec, both were rear licence plates. But I hadn't had a speeding ticket for many years prior to this so I think there are just more of them around.
The techs were working on getting that one operative when I drove by just a couple weeks ago.
Wow that is skill and talent. @Phil C. McNasty
Removing it from its station. - Blowtorch
Moving it away from its station - Pick up truck
Dumping on The Bridge on the River Kwai
Removing it from its station. - Blowtorch
Moving it away from its station - Pick up truck
Dumping on The Bridge on the River Kwai
Actually it looked like the post and wires were cut with a saw, it was a straight cut. Seems funny that this is the 3rd time this camera has been vandalized. According to Global News, the cameras are owned by a 3rd party so the city isn't doing anything and the police aren't doing anything because it hasn't been reported yet.
