Beleuchtungseinrichtung

The description refers to an illumination device for objects which are filmed by a camera whose image signal is presented to an image processing device and which has at least one CCD image sensor, comprising a light source which controls a control unit by means of pulses. The invention is characterized by the fact that the light source has a light emitting diode array whose diodes receive at least one pulse of variable width selectively from the control unit during each image period.