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“OFFICIALS SUPER BOWL THREAD- BENGALS @ RAMS

i just learned something. cameras are racist.
Just as an FYI, when Kodak developed film, particularly color film, they ignored dark skin tones. Once they improved their color film to be able to capture a wider range of skin tones, machines that developed film were only calibrated with sample photos of white people. When shooting digital you have to know specific techniques to properly expose and shoot dark skin tones and they're not widely taught in photography school.

If you watch shows like Fresh Prince of Bel Air where the cast is mostly Black you'll see they look over lit and washed out. It's because they didn't compensate for filming darker tones, they just turned up the exposure to lighten the entire shot.

It's not that cameras are racist, it's that historically they have only been developed and calibrated to accurately capture light skin tones.
 
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Just as an FYI, when Kodak developed film, particularly color film, they ignored dark skin tones. Once they improved their color film to be able to capture a wider range of skin tones, machines that developed film were only calibrated with sample photos of white people. When shooting digital you have to know specific techniques to properly expose and shoot dark skin tones and they're not widely taught in photography school.

If you watch shows like Fresh Prince of Bel Air where the cast is mostly Black you'll see they look over lit and washed out. It's because they didn't compensate for filming darker tones, they just turned up the exposure to lighten the entire shot.

It's not that cameras are racist, it's that historically they have only been developed and calibrated to accurately capture light skin tones.
interesting. how did they ignore dark skin tones?
 
interesting. how did they ignore dark skin tones?
I'm not an expert on the specifics of the chemistry, but it's hard for film to a wide range of light and shadows and Kodak was just concentrating on making their film really good at capturing a narrow range of those things. It takes more work and effort to widen the range. I'm not saying they were intentionally making their film make darker skin tones look bad, but if you imagine executives being mostly white men back then, it was probably just something they never thought to consider.

If you have a free half hour sometimes I'd recommend this podcast about the topic (and if you like podcasts it's a very interesting podcast in general). I wouldn't know any of this if I weren't a hobbyist photographer so I'm not exactly common knowledge, but I see people kind of missing the point of the Google ad so thought it's worth mentioning.
 
Rams are going to eek this out. Bengals had their chances. Rams score here and that’s it because Cinci isn’t going to drive down and score.
 
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That first defensive hold call was really weak. But the flags that have followed, have been correct. But I don't think they score without that defensive hold call on Wilson.
 
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Bengals freaking pitiful offense has cost them big time. Terrible o-line play and dumbass play calling
 
Bengals with more bad plays like the helmet to helmet that could have backed up the Rams. You can’t give a good team that many chances to score. The Bengals offense blew this one (assuming they can’t score in the last 1:25)
 
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