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title: "What type of illumination can you use with color cameras?"  
description: "What type of illumination can you use with color cameras?"  
author: "Mukul Goenka"  
published: 2022-05-24  
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# What type of illumination can you use with color cameras?

What type of illumination can you use with [color](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/77/how-to-split-form-background-color-in-c-sharp) cameras?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

With colour cameras, **only visible wavelength lighting should be used.** Tungsten halogen lighting is frequently recommended.

A halogen lamp (also known as a tungsten halogen lamp, quartz halogen lamp, or quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp that consists of a tungsten filament sealed in a compact transparent envelope filled with an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine or bromine.

This band of wavelengths is referred to as visible light. The human eye can detect wavelengths ranging from 380 to 700 nanometers in most cases.

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