Shark7
08-11-09, 12:22 PM
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This is a picture from art's review of the IN83 on projectorreviews.com. So therefore it's not a calibration problem probably, or ambient light, or anything else. This is the problem I've been having with my IN83. Look at Johnny Depp's hair, right side of the image. Looking at the image, I'm talking about the hair that appears on the right side of his head (not his right, but the right side of the image). It looks all faded out. You can't see the individual dreadlocks, or really any detail at all. It just looks like a faded out dark shadow, when really one should be able to see his hair. This has been happening with my IN83 for almost every similar type image. With black suits or dark brown suits in regularly lighted or slightly dark scenes, you can't see any threads, any cuts of the suits, any flaps, or any detail at all. The whole suit just looks like a dark shadow, with no detail, and then just a human head coming out of this faded shadowy part of the screen where the suit should be. The IN83 is supposed to have some of the best shadow detail for projectors under $10,000, so I don't understand what's wrong. I thought maybe it was that I had white walls, and have not covered them with black cloth yet, or something like that, but then I found this picture with the exact same problem in Art's review. In some pictures it doesn't seem to be as bad as the problem I'm having, but it's still there in his screenshots. It makes watching any dark scene really poor. Instead of just being able to enjoy a film, whenever it's a dark scene I just keep waiting for it to get bright again. When it's daytime, the colors, the detail, they are all good, but then when anything is dark or shadowy, there is no detail at all over half the screen much of the time.
What is wrong with this projector? Are they all like this, or do I (and did Art) have the contrast settings messed up? It seems that from the lack of detail in Depp's hair, and in my images, that that might suggest the different shades of black, and brown (near black, black, etc) are set too close, so no detail can be made out when they're close together on screen.
What should cause detail in Depp's hair is color distinction. His hair should be brown, and there should be black (a black shadow, or whatever different color is in the background showing between dreadlocks) inbetween each dreadlock, and that would be what would cause definition, distinction... But if brown and black are set too close together in the contrast, then the whole area of his hair will all just look the same, with no definition, like in the photo. Is that the problem? I'd have an easy time believing it was if this wasn't a screenshot from projectorreviews we're talking about. I find it hard to believe Art really did not calibrate the PJ properly before taking screenshots.
So is contrast the problem? Gamma? Are PJ's just bad at showing detail in dark areas period? Except if so why do all the PJs in movie theatres have no trouble with this issue? Dark scenes in theatres are just fine. I never even think twice about them. But on my IN83 that's not the case. There must be way to remedy this, no? What is the problem?
This is a picture from art's review of the IN83 on projectorreviews.com. So therefore it's not a calibration problem probably, or ambient light, or anything else. This is the problem I've been having with my IN83. Look at Johnny Depp's hair, right side of the image. Looking at the image, I'm talking about the hair that appears on the right side of his head (not his right, but the right side of the image). It looks all faded out. You can't see the individual dreadlocks, or really any detail at all. It just looks like a faded out dark shadow, when really one should be able to see his hair. This has been happening with my IN83 for almost every similar type image. With black suits or dark brown suits in regularly lighted or slightly dark scenes, you can't see any threads, any cuts of the suits, any flaps, or any detail at all. The whole suit just looks like a dark shadow, with no detail, and then just a human head coming out of this faded shadowy part of the screen where the suit should be. The IN83 is supposed to have some of the best shadow detail for projectors under $10,000, so I don't understand what's wrong. I thought maybe it was that I had white walls, and have not covered them with black cloth yet, or something like that, but then I found this picture with the exact same problem in Art's review. In some pictures it doesn't seem to be as bad as the problem I'm having, but it's still there in his screenshots. It makes watching any dark scene really poor. Instead of just being able to enjoy a film, whenever it's a dark scene I just keep waiting for it to get bright again. When it's daytime, the colors, the detail, they are all good, but then when anything is dark or shadowy, there is no detail at all over half the screen much of the time.
What is wrong with this projector? Are they all like this, or do I (and did Art) have the contrast settings messed up? It seems that from the lack of detail in Depp's hair, and in my images, that that might suggest the different shades of black, and brown (near black, black, etc) are set too close, so no detail can be made out when they're close together on screen.
What should cause detail in Depp's hair is color distinction. His hair should be brown, and there should be black (a black shadow, or whatever different color is in the background showing between dreadlocks) inbetween each dreadlock, and that would be what would cause definition, distinction... But if brown and black are set too close together in the contrast, then the whole area of his hair will all just look the same, with no definition, like in the photo. Is that the problem? I'd have an easy time believing it was if this wasn't a screenshot from projectorreviews we're talking about. I find it hard to believe Art really did not calibrate the PJ properly before taking screenshots.
So is contrast the problem? Gamma? Are PJ's just bad at showing detail in dark areas period? Except if so why do all the PJs in movie theatres have no trouble with this issue? Dark scenes in theatres are just fine. I never even think twice about them. But on my IN83 that's not the case. There must be way to remedy this, no? What is the problem?