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Dr. Markus Ludwig,
Head of Product
Management Lighting
Dr. Hans Kiening,
Head of Quality Control
Labs at ARRI
Skin Tones and Sensitivity
The Determination of
Static and Dynamic Quality
Parameters
With the flexibility and dynamic features of LED technology, it was just
a question of time until these advantages were fully exploited for
quality control and testing applications. Over the past months teams
from the camera and lighting units at ARRI have joined this trend to utilize the
full potential of LEDs in combined projects with our R&D and testing labs.
We are confident that this “camera-light-coupling” will enable a whole new
world of measuring devices and new features to be developed for service
teams and end users.
Intelligent, Dynamic LED Lights
for Special Applications
The three busts were used to verify the skin
tone reproduction of camera systems
As part of a bachelor thesis novel approaches
to the pictorial assessment of camera systems
have been developed. One component of
this work has now been realized in close collaboration
between ARRI Quality Management
in Munich and ARRI Lighting in Stephanskirchen.
For a reproducible analysis of the very important
aspect of skin tone reproduction of
camera systems, artificial busts have been
created by special effects make-up artist
Birger Laube ( PA N D O R U M ). The color of
these busts largely corresponds to the color
of human skin tones.
The three busts with European, African and
Asian skin tones were placed in a studio
set-up, which is lit with innovative LED illumination.
This allows the verification of the skin
tone reproduction of camera systems under
realistic, yet reproducible conditions in artificial
light as well as daylight situations. Another
application of this test scenario is the
comparison of camera systems in terms of
sensitivity and noise.
Simon Pott