Kodak’s film calibration research historically prioritized rendering chocolate and light skin, not Black skin
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- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Camera technology itself embeds racial skin-tone biases, not just casting; Darker skin tones are systematically underexposed compared to lighter skin under identical lighting conditions — Equity in Camera Technologies: How Consumer Cameras Perform Across Skin Tones
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- Darker skin tones are systematically underexposed compared to lighter skin under identical lighting conditions (similarity 0.92)
- Camera technology itself embeds racial skin-tone biases, not just casting (similarity 0.86)
- Film sensitivity to dark tones was driven by commerce, not civil rights (similarity 0.84)