Screenshot War!!!!!!!! - Page 80

Oh yeah maximizing your light output, I did that once. Man that felt good...

Sounds like a Gamma bump is what's called for here. The Moome bumper Cliff uses really completes his scenario, fleshes it out real good on those elusive shadow details, which his setup captures flawlessly.

I just received my HD Fury II equipment, including a Gamma X, will see how that improves my setup as soon as I get some extra time -


b

That's the same thing I ask myself everytime I have an all day calibration on a great CA sunny day!



I just gotta take a break now and then during a day like that, go outside and see what I'm missing!



Too bad I can't bring that sunshine back into the cave with me! At the end of the day we both sit back and watch a little advanced-quality video and I know I have made a permanent difference for someone, and that's great, but I am also thinking what did I just miss, out there today???



b

Oh it was indeed Minty.. so fresh, so clean...

What happened to the second screen shot posted by Alan?

You guys are killing me!! I just made the mistake of checking out this thread and now my Optoma HD72 is gonna' suck to watch after seeing some of these beautiful shots! I've got two CRT projectors sitting idle because I don't have room for one and Man did I ever just realize how much more I prefer those beautiful CRT images.

I used to be a tweak freak. I guess I need to get back to gettin' my freak on somehow!

I have a Optoma 7100 a DC3 720p unit and my XG1352 is a head and shoulder above it.
What CRT's do you have?

This thread is drifting off course, I did not help with my posts but lets get her back on topic. I want to see more Screen Caps. Come on guys get off that couch and grab the cameras. I hope to posts some more soon as well!!

A Zenith Pro900X and a Zenith Pro2000X (Toshiba P7300U). Frankly, the 900X smokes the 2000X in blacks and color, but the 2000X has better lenses and convergence settings. When I got the 900 it had about 3500 hours on it. I think I've got about 4500 hours on the 900 now. It's not as bright as it used to be so it probably needs to be retubed. I also have a few extra board sets for it, too. I traded some work for the 2000 and have set it up a couple of times. It had maybe 150 hours on it when I got it and probably 300 or so now. I haven't used or fired it up since 2002. I probably should sell it to an enthusiast who needs a spare unit for parts.

OK, I'll post my first screenshot from my relatively new (to me) Runco DTV-1200/Cine9. If this comes through ok, I'll post some others. This is from CSI Miami. I know this is cheating for color, but what the heck, it's my first attempt. After seeing it in the preview mode, I see it is not as sharp as I see in person, but you can get the idea of the image I'm seeing.

For a relatively large sized screenshot, that one is entirely acceptable, IMHO. You coulda cheated and sent in a smaller size which would automatically look crisper than a larger size, but you didn't. You chose to go for it with big, and my compliments!

Res goes down as the size of screenshot goes up, and yours is holding its own as a large size shot admirably! Looks very well dialed in, to me. Esp. as broadcast material, and not BD -





b

Looks like that first one came through ok, so here are some more. Again, all are from CSI Miami. I'll post some from the Blu-ray DVE calibration disk next.

Awesome! Nice. Very dimensional -



b

And a couple of shots from the Blu-ray DVE calibration disk.




Sorry for cutting off the sides of that last one, but you can probably see that the image is pretty sharp from the text. At least it's sharp on the screen; but doesn't come across as sharp in this screenshot.

If you haven't already guessed, I'm pretty happy with this pj.

Bob

that sucker looks pretty sharp there dude, that last test pattern especially, hope to have my freshly retubed Runco 1101 going soon

what is your video chain?

-Gary

Bob, that thing looks good. I'll have to get some shots of my DTV-1200. I would like to get it tuned by Ken Whitcomb first, but I think that's going to have to wait for awhile. Gives me some motivation to get some work done on the room.

Did you stick with the moome over the fury2?

MIKE

Very Nice Bob !!! A little more work on color but nice set up job!!! Red needs to e a bit lower I think, the guys face in the back ground i don think is that red. But otherwise nice!!!

Athanasios

Is there a way to reduce red when his overscan shot in B&W looks solid?!

Thanks for your comments. I have only calibrated the DirecTV input with my Radiance, but in the past I've not noticed much difference between inputs. The gamut, grayscale and gamma is spot on with my measurement setup (in this case a Konica-Minolta CL-200 and CalMAN Pro). I also have an i1Pro and C5, but I generally prefer the results from the CL-200. The primaries on this pj require very little correction with the Radiance's CMS, so all my meters measure pretty close. There are better meters around for sure, but mine generally give good results.

I just set my camera to night mode, turned the flash off, put it on a tripod and snapped the pics. I think it is quite difficult to judge color balance from a screen shot. And, of course, the monitors we are looking at these screenshots with vary as well. But, I do think the screenshots give a pretty good idea of the quality of picture this DTV-1200/Cine9 is capable of putting out.

By the way, I'm projecting on a 110" diag 1.3 gain screen at 1080p60 on all of these screenshots.

Thanks for looking.

Bob

My video chain consists of:

Blu-ray/HD-DVD/DirecTV/HTPC>>>3ft HDMI cables>>>Lumagen RadianceXD>>>25ft HDMI>>>moome EXT-FullHD>>>2ft VGA to RGBHV breakout cable>>>DTV-1200 projector.

I also have a HDFury2 (the latest one) and while it is very slightly sharper than the moome, it doesn't work properly when driven from my Radiance. So, unless I find a solution to make the Fury2 work, I'll be sticking with the moome. It has proven to be bulletproof thus far.

Bob

Is this your new toy?
Looks good.

A bit out of focus, but:

link wouldnt open.

Athanasios

I thought I would chime in and finally post a few screen shots from my 8500. I realize I need to do a little work to take pictures that more accurately depict what I see on the screen, as some of them are slightly off, but still good.

Here are a few of my favorites, and I have more on my theater page, along with pictures of the theater with its new paint scheme.

The Fifth Element from regular DVD, played through my HD-A35 @ 1080i:




















Transformers on HD DVD @ 1080i:

Nice Carl !!! HD144 helped out with the colors, maybe up the brightness a few click for the lower end detail, not too much just a tad.

Athanasios

Yeah, I'm still tweaking the calibration a bit, and I'm playing with my Sony Cybershot to figure out the best settings to take accurate screenshots.

Can you do manual exposure with the camera? If so, try 2-4 sec @ f:5.6 (ISO80 or 100). Your geometry looks a little wide. Increase your vertical size 10% or so. Do you have a setup disc? DVE HD Basics works really well; The geometry pattern has perfect squares and circles & resolution pattern is great for setting sharpness. Can't wait to see more screenshots!