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Description / Abstract:
FOREWORD
The intent of this IES document is to describe measurement
procedures for the determination of the luminous intensity
distribution of certain lamps and luminaires using a digital camera
to capture the projected light distribution from a luminaire on a
screen. Because this is a relatively new technique, considerable
detail is provided to assist the reader in understanding the
principles, requirements and limitations involved. As more
experience is gained and as digital cameras increase in their
capabilities, further requirements are likely to be developed. At
this stage of development, digital photometry offers very high
speed data collection versus a traditional goniophotometer,
although typically over a restricted angular range. Many factors
must be taken into account to achieve accurate digital photometry;
this report addresses the most significant of these factors.
Other uses of cameras to perform digital photometry, such as
capturing the distribution of a luminaire by aiming the camera at
the luminaire, close field photometry techniques and methods using
integrating spheres, are outside the scope of this report.