Digital BW, The Print

A Miami Herald photographer blew up one of his shots and published it 
"claiming" it showed a electronic prodding device in the hand of the 
jockey who won the Ky Derby. This caused an investigation and of course 
since the photo and blowup made the front page of the Thoroughbred Times 
and Miami Herald it caused quite a stir. The Ky racing commission 
searched the track dragging it with rakes to see if it had been 
discarded. They searched the winners circle and other areas. They looked 
at every picture they had of the race. When they asked for the negative 
from the Miami Herald, it could not be produced.

The Jockey was cleared since there was no evidence. They concluded the 
photo was an "optical illusion". Today an article in the TB Times (my 
wife reads it every day) states that the Jockey's lawyer had started the 
legal proces to get all the data associated with the image. Since a 
negative was not produced - there is no evidence that the image was real 
or not.  It didn't sound like the trainer, jockey or owners of the horse 
thought the last week was very funny and it didn't sound like they were 
going to let it drop.

Truman

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>I have no idea what this is about.  What happened?
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Seth Rossman" <seth@...>
>To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 00:33
>Subject: RE: [Digital BW] RE: a full-frame Nikon digital SLR this fall? (was
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>>I think that was settled yesterday.  The blow-up showed the jockey did not
>>have anything else in his hand.  It was the glasses of the jockey behind
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>>that looked that way from lens compressing the perspective.
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>>Seth
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>>=Truman writes:
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>>=> ... but now there is a photographer down in Miami
>>=> under a little bit heat with some  lawyers demanding
>>=> to see his negative of the photo he took during
>>=> the Kentucky Derby - a negative he can't produce
>>=> because it was taken with a digital.
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>>=Can you point to some further information on this?  I had not
>>=heard about it.
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