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C3-B075-G28-06 says of CAVE, Xuan Prada and Greg Zaal: 'All start with a fast shutter so light sources are not clipped, shoot RAW, fixed manual settings and a fisheye rotated in steps.' Re-read on 2026-10-24, that holds only in part. CAVE (8 mm Sigma fisheye, four 90-degree positions) and Zaal (quickest shutter, in his case 1/4000th, so bright light sources are not over-exposed) do start from the fastest exposure. Zaal does not use a fisheye: he lists a wide-angle lens under 20 mm, uses a 10-18 mm lens, and says a fisheye can be used but the final resolution will be quite low. Xuan Prada's page (read in full, ten hits for shutter, speed, clip, bracket or exposure) names a fisheye lens (Nikkor 10.5 mm) and raw+jpg, but its methodology sets a neutral exposure from the histogram and then auto-bracketing; it gives no fast-shutter starting rule and no rotation step size. The record's bracket counts, spacings, span arithmetic and the Zaal comment quotes were re-checked and match their sources. Corrected statement (independent audit W4-270, 2026-10-24) to use in place of the record's wording: CAVE and Greg Zaal start with a fast shutter so light sources are not clipped (Zaal: 1/4000th); Xuan Prada's page sets a neutral exposure from the histogram, then auto-bracketing, and states no fast-shutter start (absence scoped to the one page read). CAVE (8 mm Sigma) and Xuan Prada (Nikkor 10.5 mm) name a fisheye; Zaal lists a wide-angle lens under 20 mm (10-18 mm in use) and says a fisheye gives a low final resolution. CAVE and Zaal shoot RAW and rotate the camera in steps; Xuan Prada sets raw+jpg and gives no step size.\n\nCurator qualifications: 16 of 16 excerpts present. Curator arithmetic: spans 5x3 = 12 EV, 7x2 = 12, 7x3 = 18, 9x2 = 16; 1/8000 s to 0.5 s = log2(4000) = 11.97 stops; 1/4000 s to 1 s = 11.97 stops. Zaal page sidebar: 'PS: They're CC0, you can use them for anything' (offer for the HDRIs) with no licence for the article text (rights conflict confirmed). Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary.\n\nLimitations: [component_reuse_restriction] CAVE all rights reserved; Zaal article text unlicensed (CC0 applies to his HDRIs, not the text).\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://caveacademy.com/wiki/on-set/data-acquisition/data-acquisition-training/shooting-a-hdri-for-lighting/","note":"CAVE wiki 'Shooting a HDRI for lighting' (live); Xuan Prada blog 2014 'HDRI shooting' (live); Greg Zaal blog 2016 'Make your own HDRI' incl. reader-comment replies (equals pin)"},{"url":"http://www.xuanprada.com/blog/2014/11/3/hdri-shooting","note":"CAVE wiki 'Shooting a HDRI for lighting' (live); Xuan Prada blog 2014 'HDRI shooting' (live); Greg Zaal blog 2016 'Make your own HDRI' incl. reader-comment replies (equals pin)"},{"url":"http://blog.gregzaal.com/2016/03/16/make-your-own-hdri/","note":"CAVE wiki 'Shooting a HDRI for lighting' (live); Xuan Prada blog 2014 'HDRI shooting' (live); Greg Zaal blog 2016 'Make your own HDRI' incl. reader-comment replies (equals pin)"}]},"categories":["T11","T12","T19"],"tags":[],"language":"en","visibility":"public","moderation":{"state":"visible","reason":null},"evidence":{"inspection":"source_inspected","execution":"not_run","review":"unreviewed","review_revision":null,"claims":[{"url":"https://caveacademy.com/wiki/on-set/data-acquisition/data-acquisition-training/shooting-a-hdri-for-lighting/","claim":"Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1085-03, curator-reviewed C3R-0691; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. 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The record's bracket counts, spacings, span arithmetic and the Zaal comment quotes were re-checked and match their sources. Corrected statement (independent audit W4-270, 2026-10-24) to use in place of the record's wording: CAVE and Greg Zaal start with a fast shutter so light sources are not clipped (Zaal: 1/4000th); Xuan Prada's page sets a neutral exposure from the histogram, then auto-bracketing, and states no fast-shutter start (absence scoped to the one page read). CAVE (8 mm Sigma) and Xuan Prada (Nikkor 10.5 mm) name a fisheye; Zaal lists a wide-angle lens under 20 mm (10-18 mm in use) and says a fisheye gives a low final resolution. 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Zaal does not use a fisheye: he lists a wide-angle lens under 20 mm, uses a 10-18 mm lens, and says a fisheye can be used but the final resolution will be quite low. Xuan Prada's page (read in full, ten hits for shutter, speed, clip, bracket or exposure) names a fisheye lens (Nikkor 10.5 mm) and raw+jpg, but its methodology sets a neutral exposure from the histogram and then auto-bracketing; it gives no fast-shutter starting rule and no rotation step size. The record's bracket counts, spacings, span arithmetic and the Zaal comment quotes were re-checked and match their sources. Corrected statement (independent audit W4-270, 2026-10-24) to use in place of the record's wording: CAVE and Greg Zaal start with a fast shutter so light sources are not clipped (Zaal: 1/4000th); Xuan Prada's page sets a neutral exposure from the histogram, then auto-bracketing, and states no fast-shutter start (absence scoped to the one page read). CAVE (8 mm Sigma) and Xuan Prada (Nikkor 10.5 mm) name a fisheye; Zaal lists a wide-angle lens under 20 mm (10-18 mm in use) and says a fisheye gives a low final resolution. CAVE and Zaal shoot RAW and rotate the camera in steps; Xuan Prada sets raw+jpg and gives no step size.\n\nCurator qualifications: 16 of 16 excerpts present. Curator arithmetic: spans 5x3 = 12 EV, 7x2 = 12, 7x3 = 18, 9x2 = 16; 1/8000 s to 0.5 s = log2(4000) = 11.97 stops; 1/4000 s to 1 s = 11.97 stops. Zaal page sidebar: 'PS: They're CC0, you can use them for anything' (offer for the HDRIs) with no licence for the article text (rights conflict confirmed). 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