PeriSoft
08-21-07, 01:08 AM
So I got the ToastyBarco up to a room in our shop I cleared out where I've got space to work and a wall that's not beige (actually it's not painted, but I stretched some white-ish fabric on it. That'll do for the moment).
Decided to take some time and do another setup. This is my second time through, and things have improved a little bit since the first go around... :D
I realized, however, that my Serenity DVD was the weakest link in the chain - I just wasn't getting the processing to make it look anything but pretty awful. So I decided that since the idea is to show the setup of the PJ, I'd find still images to throw on it rather than trying to play a DVD with a lousy setup.
The pics are unretouched except to compensate for the off-angle shot and the D80 kit lens's barrel distortion. White balance is left as-shot with no fixups and the same settings on PJ / camera / post were used for all images.
So, with that in mind, the first image is a demo shot from RED Digital Cinema's web page (red.com) where they're selling an uber-expensive digital HD camera. It's basically a Nikon D2X that shoots at 60fps for two hours, which is pretty alarming when you think about it. At any rate:
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s1.jpg
...and now two obligatory 5th Element shots - I think they're from the bluray, but I'm not sure as I snorked them from somebody's screenshot post on another forum. They're not, thankfully, shots of the bluray playing on someone ELSE'S PJ, which would just be strange.
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s2.jpg
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s3.jpg
...and finally, a crop of an Ansel Adams photo, because I can. The convergence seemed to be drifting off at this point, or I'd messed it up the first time around.
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s4.jpg
All in all, the exercise was far more fun than it had any right to be. Sure beats slapping some digital on the desk and turning one knob to get 99.9999% of the potential performance out of it! :p It also makes me think that a good chunk of performance in HT setups is really the processing on the DVDs, because it seems frighteningly easy to get good results with single frames...
Decided to take some time and do another setup. This is my second time through, and things have improved a little bit since the first go around... :D
I realized, however, that my Serenity DVD was the weakest link in the chain - I just wasn't getting the processing to make it look anything but pretty awful. So I decided that since the idea is to show the setup of the PJ, I'd find still images to throw on it rather than trying to play a DVD with a lousy setup.
The pics are unretouched except to compensate for the off-angle shot and the D80 kit lens's barrel distortion. White balance is left as-shot with no fixups and the same settings on PJ / camera / post were used for all images.
So, with that in mind, the first image is a demo shot from RED Digital Cinema's web page (red.com) where they're selling an uber-expensive digital HD camera. It's basically a Nikon D2X that shoots at 60fps for two hours, which is pretty alarming when you think about it. At any rate:
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s1.jpg
...and now two obligatory 5th Element shots - I think they're from the bluray, but I'm not sure as I snorked them from somebody's screenshot post on another forum. They're not, thankfully, shots of the bluray playing on someone ELSE'S PJ, which would just be strange.
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s2.jpg
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s3.jpg
...and finally, a crop of an Ansel Adams photo, because I can. The convergence seemed to be drifting off at this point, or I'd messed it up the first time around.
http://www.perisoft.org/2ndcal-s4.jpg
All in all, the exercise was far more fun than it had any right to be. Sure beats slapping some digital on the desk and turning one knob to get 99.9999% of the potential performance out of it! :p It also makes me think that a good chunk of performance in HT setups is really the processing on the DVDs, because it seems frighteningly easy to get good results with single frames...