In 2018, the Center For Art Technological Studies And Conservation (CATS) at The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) conducted research involving two of Pieter Bruegel, The Elder’s masterpieces: The Strife Of Lent and Winter Scenery, as part of a conservation project.
The equipment used was a Phase One XF IQ3 100MP Camera System and a set of special filters and Ultraviolet (UV), Infrared (IR) and visible (VIS) LED lights. The kit was designed to deliver a stack of images according to the Charisma Guidelines that allows for analysis of different components of the paintings:
- Visible light: provides what the human eye is used to seeing, and is the reference for all images and documentation
- Raking light: shows paint application, detailed brush strokes and surface structure
- UV reflected (UV-R): analysis of pigment distribution and surface phenomenon
- UV False color: analysis of pigment distribution and surface phenomenon
- UV Fluorescence (UV-F): analysis of surface phenomenon, varnish layers and retouching or previous conservation work
- IR Reflective (IRR): analysis of under-drawing, signature, retouching and pigment distribution
- IR False color: for pigment distribution
![](https://www.phaseone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Miroslav-Gospel_Sample-Image_Precision_TIF_2022-600x300.jpg)
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Digitizing a Serbian Manuscript from the 12th century
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Digitizing Panorama formats with Phase One
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Modular digitization at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
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Goethe in Weimar’s digitization center
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University of Tartu Library
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Het Nieuwe Instituut (The New Institute) – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Digitizing the Lepidoptera collection at the Hungarian Natural History Museum
![Scanning dinosaur bones in 3D](https://www.phaseone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSC00396-scaled-1-600x300.jpg)
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Digitizing Dinosaurs and the Path to Virtual Exhibitions
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Getty Images Archive – Phase One iXG 100MP and Film scanning solution
![Phase One's camera capturing multispectral data for analysis](https://www.phaseone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Royal_Library_Hero-1-600x300.jpg)
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The Royal Library of Denmark
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The Fotothek of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
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Digital Aerial Photography Archive for Baden-Wuerttemberg
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Just in the nick of time: the story of an A0 at 300ppi test
![Image from Heritage Photography Newsletters](https://www.phaseone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Cartography_Hero-scaled-1-600x300.jpg)
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Phase One generates stunning results for colonial cartography maps
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Journal digitization workflow with the iXG Camera System