I bought a calibration disc awhile ago. I forget the name but it was the one everyone on avs recommended. Anyway for contrast, it had this grey/white like piano keys type thing, or like rectangle bar after rectangle bar, and they actually described with a voice over what it was supposed to look like after you calibrated, but they didn't include like a picture or anything on paper of what the test is actually supposed to look like after you calibrate it correctly.
Does anyone have a picture, or can tell me better than they can?
I have an infocus in83 and have had a terrible time trying to calibrate it. I don't know if it's my (not top of the line) elite high contrast grey screen, or bad calibration, or my projector was broken, but i was getting terrible blacks and terrible shadow detail. All the black was really grey, much more so than the screenshots in the in83 reviews online, and any time anything was dark, nothing could be seen in the dark places of teh screen. It was like if you viewed the picture with lights on in the room, except I was watching in the dark. My walls are white maybe that's it, but I have black non-reflective frame on my screen. I don't think it should be that bad. I mean really it was like the black was not even close to black, as well as the shadow detail. Both were worse than any screenshot of any projector I have seen.
Is this a contrast problem?
So I'm looking for advice on that, a picture on how the contract piano test/rectangle bars next to each other over and over test is actually supposed to look like, and/or if someone who has an IN83 or calibrates them can just give me their calibration settings for IN83's, that should work pretty well for me.
On Art's review on projectorreviews.com, he posted the calibration settings for color gain and... the other color setting, and contrast settings, but he didn't post brightness settings, or specify whether he had brilliant color on or not.
and out of 100, his contrast setting was at 19. With me that jsut meant even worse black levels, or just the plain usual black levels but with an all around dark picture. Plus who wants to waste all of that contrast? There's probably a way to use your projectors contrast and have it calibrated effectively too .. . . no? either way, if someone could point me to calibration settings for the IN83, that would be incredibly helpful to me.
Does anyone have a picture, or can tell me better than they can?
I have an infocus in83 and have had a terrible time trying to calibrate it. I don't know if it's my (not top of the line) elite high contrast grey screen, or bad calibration, or my projector was broken, but i was getting terrible blacks and terrible shadow detail. All the black was really grey, much more so than the screenshots in the in83 reviews online, and any time anything was dark, nothing could be seen in the dark places of teh screen. It was like if you viewed the picture with lights on in the room, except I was watching in the dark. My walls are white maybe that's it, but I have black non-reflective frame on my screen. I don't think it should be that bad. I mean really it was like the black was not even close to black, as well as the shadow detail. Both were worse than any screenshot of any projector I have seen.
Is this a contrast problem?
So I'm looking for advice on that, a picture on how the contract piano test/rectangle bars next to each other over and over test is actually supposed to look like, and/or if someone who has an IN83 or calibrates them can just give me their calibration settings for IN83's, that should work pretty well for me.
On Art's review on projectorreviews.com, he posted the calibration settings for color gain and... the other color setting, and contrast settings, but he didn't post brightness settings, or specify whether he had brilliant color on or not.
and out of 100, his contrast setting was at 19. With me that jsut meant even worse black levels, or just the plain usual black levels but with an all around dark picture. Plus who wants to waste all of that contrast? There's probably a way to use your projectors contrast and have it calibrated effectively too .. . . no? either way, if someone could point me to calibration settings for the IN83, that would be incredibly helpful to me.