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I'm curious how the physics of light is termed racial bias, it's skin-colour bias if anything -- you can be "black" and be lighter skinned than a "white" person
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
I'm curious how the physics of light is termed racial bias, it's skin-colour bias if anything -- you can be "black" and be lighter skinned than a "white" person, for example -- but surely it's a consequence of how cameras/light works rather than a bias.
Of course if you don't take account of the difficulties that come with using the tool then you might be acting with racial bias, but that's different. Or, all cameras/eyes/visual imaging means are "racist".
- cratermoon 5y agoWell, if you really want to know, I have done the research and can recommend several other papers in addition to the one linked. The short answer is that it's not "just physics", and choices made by the chemists and technicians at Kodak, Fuji, Ilford, Agfa, etc to decide how films depicted skin tones were made with racial bias. Digital imaging built on the color rendering tools and tests that originated in the film industry, and thus inherited their flaws.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoSure, that would be interesting to read about - it would be weird not to adjust your film sensitivity according to market, of that were possible. Always happy to learn, link me up.