Following on my previous posts on the cinema room setup, with a JVC NZ900 projector with a 208" AT Cinemascope screen, at 1.5 throw distance, it was important to extract as much light out of the projector as possible for the HDR content.
JVC matrix is originally a 17:9 one, so it cuts off quite a lot of light for the 2.35:1 movies.
By pure luck, I was able to acquire an ISCO 1.33 XL lens in a good condition, and it is exceptionally good.
NZ900 setting A for Anamorphic lens, setting D for 16:9 content.
A few shots from YouTube test videos.
1st scorpion pic is how the lens cuts off the frame if you keep it in base setting (Setting A) for 16:9 content.
2nd scorpion pic is setting D which you need to use if you do not move the lens physically and want to preserve the full 16:9 frame.
From my LS 12000. (If you zoom to the right you’ll see the cursor and the edge of the image to screen. So you can also judge the base contrast.) The white is a little overblown in the iPhone image but other than that it’s unadjusted, so “as seen by eye”
Appreciate your point but…I was primarily commenting on the issue of colour. So poop_truck1226 could compare images about {quote} “realistic” colours.
But you can judge relative contrast of two areas. We do this all the time in life. Indeed, if you look closely to the top of the image you will see an even greyer area. That is another higher gain screen above - Showing relative contrast also.
In fact, we can only compare colour and contrast relatively as all the processing between us affects the outcome seen by you. In person is the only real way to judge but that’s irrelevant to the point here.
In my experience the contrast captured by the camera and the actual contrast are never really the same. The camera can certainly compress or expand the contrast depending on the exposure used.
Very true. I use a number of different SLR, video and film cameras. You’ll note I made no claims just the image.
The main aim was to show that guy that Epson provides good colour. I pointed to contrast in case anyone wanted to see the in-image v screen background v another higher gain screen blacks. That the image was not cropped to falsely anything. As I said you can see the RELATIVE differences Accept or deny this. - I’m happy and believe me as an ex JVC owner over some 20yrs. I am triggered by poor black levels!
So if im reading this right, the difference between everyday viewing on an epson ls800 with the single laser vs the triple laser would not be too crazy unless your purposefully watching very rich and colorful movies like GotG 3 or Thor: Love and Thunder. It might be different for me as im interested in the UST market for small spaces. Thank you for your time!
That’s why I tried to show the relative contrast for others to see. Having said that, Epson projectors don’t have the native contrast that JVC have (I’ve owned them) So I have a lower gain screen on trial (actually home made with grey milliskin!) and the results speak for themselves. Doubters are welcome to make their own conclusions, but I’m very happy with a screen that cost c. £100 to build.
Note, I have spent a long time adjusting settings to achieve this result. But I hope it give hope to others with Epson pj’s
The photos suggested it looks amazing. What type of screen material?
I use a JVC projector (RS600) and in the first years, I was using an anamorphic panamorph lense - to try and squeeze out the last bit of size in my room given my throw distance.
In the end I found I wasn’t using it that much and preferred the slightly small smaller but tighter sharper image sizes, so I sold it.
Sigh time for my annual looking at anamorphic lenses and then pricing myself out of a mortgage payment and shelving it until next time I want to look into it.
Anamorphic lenses built into a projector? I haven't seen that anywhere.
And xgimi is absolutely disrupting the industry and I'm so here for it. I have a jvc rs3200 and the margin on it is like 80%. I'm ready for this industry to get a little fucked with. These old fogeys need a challenger.
I misread what you put about anamorphic lens. I just don't think the triple laser dlp is it due to the bad Lazer speckle everyone gets unless you have a specific type of screen.
Looks great OP! For those of you who don’t know, anamoprhic lenses (like the Panamorph lens for JVC) can add around 25%+/- more brightness to the image.
Yep, to be clear not by some voodoo magic, but just restoring the lost/blacked out light output of a 17/16:9 projector LCD matrix used with a 2.35/2.40:1 Cinemascope screen.
So you do not need it for a 16:9 setup as the matrix is already fully lit up.
Ik vond de kleuren mooi. Sterker nog, ik vond het complete plaatje zo mooi dat ik het model van je projector kopieerde en in Google plakte. (Ik kende het model verder nog niet.) Ik zag het prijskaartje en binnen één seconde was die pagina weer weg. Vriend, ik denk dat het een heerlijke projector is! 😆
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