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Scan Lighting: Improvement suggestions

The quality of your scans is directly linked to lighting levels, so here are some suggestions in ensuring good practice.

1. Maximise daylight

Scan at brightest part of the day - don't go out at dusk and dawn.

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2. Maximise static lighting

Ensure areas to be scanned are well lit with artificial lighting on

Strip lighting

Consider using light strips for site lighting as it looks neater and produces better scan results.

 

3. Mobile lighting solutions

Do not use beam/head torches or phone flash lights

Any targeted light source that throws a beam will result in grainy scenes, processing problems, and location inaccuracy.

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Only use a diffuse light source that provides wide and even lighting

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Our recommendations

For selfie stick mounted cameras - Bushman Halo

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For hard hat mounted cameras - Hard hat Halo

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For hard hat mounted cameras - LED strip lights (150/230 degree)

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