ABSTRACT
Most people seeing colour for the first time are enthusiastic and when they come to do their first colour programme, become first hypnotized and then obsessed by the colour. There is a definite tendency to use far too much colour indiscriminately and to ignore completely the fact that for many years yet the majority of viewers will be receiving the compatible black-and-white picture. The two main requirements of lighting for television, colour or monochrome, are to create the atmosphere demanded by the production, and to meet the technical requirements of the system: it is essential to meet the second in order to achieve the first. Some colour cameras suffer from polarization error; that is, they have a different colour response according to the plane of polarization of the light entering the lens. The most troublesome effect of this failing is a miscolouration of hair or polished surfaces, onto which the light is falling at an acute angle.
