Since I have posted the progress of getting my LT-150, I am now legally obligated to notify all of you that it arrived!
I had to go back to work right after picking it up, so at work we shot Jurassic Park small onto a very bumpy wall. The reaction - WOW!
At home I held the projector in the place I wanted to put it and had pre-measured to be right - the picture exactly fits where I want it! Who needs a zoom, when NEC so kindly designed their projector exactly for my living room...
I put the projector down low for the time being and centered it on the wall I will be projecting on until I can afford a better surface. I hooked up my Compaq laptop running Compaq's DVD player for now.
I then fired up Jurrasic Park again with a 9 foot wide screen this time. After that the opening sequence of Contact, then much of Pulp Fiction. My copy of The Fifth Element is out on loan - bummer!
The picture this tiny piece of equipment puts out is amazing. A friend of mine and I kept making comments about how realistic wood grain in the background looked and how deep the picture looked in Pulp Fiction when Vincent Vega is driving to pick up Mia.
I like white segment off and like everyone else Natural 1 gamma looks dead-on in colors while Normal and Natural 2 look too washed out and cartoony respectively.
Truly worth the money, now for some bad news for me.
Turns out that I am slightly susceptible to rainbows. I see them every 5 minutes or so during scene transitions and if something contrasty moves in the picture and I am not looking at that part of the picture.
However, I think my brain is learning to ignore some of these rainbows or my settings are better because I am seeing less of them as time goes on.
My wife is out visiting her sisters and will be back tomorrow - then the real testing begins...
And since I haven't seen this anywhere, IBM's 340MB microdrive doesn't fit in the compact flash slot - damn!
drewman
I had to go back to work right after picking it up, so at work we shot Jurassic Park small onto a very bumpy wall. The reaction - WOW!
At home I held the projector in the place I wanted to put it and had pre-measured to be right - the picture exactly fits where I want it! Who needs a zoom, when NEC so kindly designed their projector exactly for my living room...
I put the projector down low for the time being and centered it on the wall I will be projecting on until I can afford a better surface. I hooked up my Compaq laptop running Compaq's DVD player for now.
I then fired up Jurrasic Park again with a 9 foot wide screen this time. After that the opening sequence of Contact, then much of Pulp Fiction. My copy of The Fifth Element is out on loan - bummer!
The picture this tiny piece of equipment puts out is amazing. A friend of mine and I kept making comments about how realistic wood grain in the background looked and how deep the picture looked in Pulp Fiction when Vincent Vega is driving to pick up Mia.
I like white segment off and like everyone else Natural 1 gamma looks dead-on in colors while Normal and Natural 2 look too washed out and cartoony respectively.
Truly worth the money, now for some bad news for me.
Turns out that I am slightly susceptible to rainbows. I see them every 5 minutes or so during scene transitions and if something contrasty moves in the picture and I am not looking at that part of the picture.
However, I think my brain is learning to ignore some of these rainbows or my settings are better because I am seeing less of them as time goes on.
My wife is out visiting her sisters and will be back tomorrow - then the real testing begins...
And since I haven't seen this anywhere, IBM's 340MB microdrive doesn't fit in the compact flash slot - damn!
drewman
