I just bought HC5000. Looks awesome, but I have noticed when looking very close that there is a slight colour separation, most visible on black-on-white lines, goes to about 1 pixel up and down - green on top and red on the bottom (see attached images).
Projector is 16' away from the 117 diagonal 16:9 white screen. Ceiling mounted and using very small lens shift to the left and significant lens shift to the bottom, although when I reset lens shift the separation on the part of the image that I can see seems to be the same.
I wander whether it's normal for this projector? Can anyone confirm similar artifacts or their absence on their HS5000 (or 4900)? I'd appreciate that.
The store sent a refurbished unit by mistake (252 hours on the lamp), they offered to replace it free or send me a new lamp free. Shipping new unit to Canada means paying duty and taxes, so I agreed to get the lamp, it's easier and seems like better value (got the pj for $1800). Then I noticed this colour separation issue, if it is an issue Maybe it's normal and you can't get perfect convergence at this distance?
See attached images - you can't really see the colour separation when looking from 10 feet away, but see extreme closeup and you can see it there. The source on the picture is DVI from the PC so it's not cable (signal is digital). I have a suspicion it's optics and not colour chips, as white pixels are quite clear, but who knows I'd appreciate your opinions on that, and comparisons. Thanks.
