Godox launches the PaletteLab color engine and five new fixtures, targeting LED's persistent spectral gap problem with nine-band architecture and strong color metrics.
Godox has unveiled PaletteLab, a new multi-channel color engine designed to deliver continuous spectral coverage across the full visible wavelength range.
The core claim is that it helps eliminate spectral gaps, the drop-offs between blue and cyan, and between orange-red and deep red, that are one of the main remaining weaknesses in LED-based lighting.
PaletteLab addresses these deficiencies through what it calls Multispectral Optical Coupling Technology, which it says produces smoother transitions and cleaner color rendering. Headline color metrics are a CRI R9 of 99, TM-30 RF of 97, and "flawless color rendering" in high SSI values of 92 and 87. Color space coverage is quoted at 92% of Rec. 2020.
The system is built on a continuous spectrum, independently controlled multi-channel architecture. Three calibrated color temperature response curves are available: Godox Curve, Blackbody Curve, and TM-30 Curve.
Skin tone rendering is specifically singled out, with Godox claiming the orange-red-to-deep-red optimization avoids the flattening "LED gray" effect on faces.