PeriSoft
08-28-07, 09:02 AM
So, I've been busy setting up my 808, and every time I go through setup again it gets a little better (sometimes a lot better).
But I'm still not sure how close I am to optimum, or whether I'm missing something obvious and then tweaking futilely around the margins.
For instance, I've got center optical focus pretty good, and corner optical focus so-so, but I don't know how good corner optical focus *should* be.
So I was thinking it would be a great reference if people with various kinds of well-set-up projectors (everything from an old ES 7" to a G90) could get together some overall and, more importantly, super close up screenshots. That way if someone's setting up a G70, or a Marquee 8000, they could look at the shots and say, "Ah hah, my corner focus could be a lot better!". So, to do this, each reference would have extreme detail shots center, top, left, right, and corners, and a wide shot.
I'm thinking there'd be a couple of standard reference shots (maybe a grid / focus screen, a gray ramp & color screen, and naturally a shot from the Fifth Element...) for each PJ, and each PJ would have the shots at its own 'optimal' resolution (so, maybe 1440x960 for EM 8" sets, 1920x1080p for G90s...).
I don't know enough yet about the business to pick reference shots or know what resolutions to pick, but given that one problem with doing something like this is that uncompressed, big images take a lot of bandwidth, I could provide web hosting and organization if some people wanted to help out in the areas I'm unfamiliar with. I've got a million megabytes a month burning a hole in my server... ;)
Anyway, it just struck me as something that would be a great help to me in setup, and might help others trying to break into CRT-land (as well as potentially being a good reference for "I've got a ****, can it resolve ****?" questions). If anybody out there thinks it's a neat idea and wants to help out, give me a shout!
But I'm still not sure how close I am to optimum, or whether I'm missing something obvious and then tweaking futilely around the margins.
For instance, I've got center optical focus pretty good, and corner optical focus so-so, but I don't know how good corner optical focus *should* be.
So I was thinking it would be a great reference if people with various kinds of well-set-up projectors (everything from an old ES 7" to a G90) could get together some overall and, more importantly, super close up screenshots. That way if someone's setting up a G70, or a Marquee 8000, they could look at the shots and say, "Ah hah, my corner focus could be a lot better!". So, to do this, each reference would have extreme detail shots center, top, left, right, and corners, and a wide shot.
I'm thinking there'd be a couple of standard reference shots (maybe a grid / focus screen, a gray ramp & color screen, and naturally a shot from the Fifth Element...) for each PJ, and each PJ would have the shots at its own 'optimal' resolution (so, maybe 1440x960 for EM 8" sets, 1920x1080p for G90s...).
I don't know enough yet about the business to pick reference shots or know what resolutions to pick, but given that one problem with doing something like this is that uncompressed, big images take a lot of bandwidth, I could provide web hosting and organization if some people wanted to help out in the areas I'm unfamiliar with. I've got a million megabytes a month burning a hole in my server... ;)
Anyway, it just struck me as something that would be a great help to me in setup, and might help others trying to break into CRT-land (as well as potentially being a good reference for "I've got a ****, can it resolve ****?" questions). If anybody out there thinks it's a neat idea and wants to help out, give me a shout!