Method for calibrating a lighting apparatus

Method for calibrating a lighting apparatus, wherein the lighting apparatus has a plurality of illuminants as light sources that each produce an individual light distribution, control means for controlling the settings of the individual light distributions to produce a superimposed overall light distribution by dint of superimposition of the individual light distributions of at least single illuminants, additionally characterized by

• the production of an essentially overlap-free distribution of the individual light distributions of at least single selected illuminants,
• pickup of the light distribution of the selected illuminants by means of a sensor,
• determination of at least one characteristic of the picked-up individual light distributions of the selected illuminants,
• calibration of the lighting apparatus on the basis of a comparison of the at least one characteristic of different illuminants among one another and/or with prescribable setpoint data.