EX1 Footage on a 110" Screen!

Basspig: It makes more sence as 10-10-10 RGB. I was informed about the 30 bit info from a dealer tech who probably was guessing. Actually, the professional switcher for broadcast uses 10bit mininum and not 8bit. in their studios. The high end goes to 12bit digital for switchers, but there is only a small difference from 10bit in performance and a big difference from 8 bit. So if you have a 10bit (30bit RGB) projector, it would stand to reason that you have a pretty great picture. Sell some tickets to recover some of your costs!

PS: I loved that movie with Wallace and Grommit, Is it available on Blue-Ray?
 
Indeed, I think it's evenly-balanced across the three primaries (the bit-loading). But still, it IS curious as to why the projector has such great shadow detail and smooth gradations.
I donated my 47" LCD to my wife and the livingroom upstairs. Tonight they watched some movies and I sat for a few minutes. The thing that hit me about the LCD: black was not black and the blacks were crushed and some scenes showed drastic color differences between adjacent macroblocks. The box says 24-bit color, but I'm hard pressed to believe it.

The projector looks just stellar. Even HV20 footage doesn't look too bad on it. That DLP chip has an impressive amount of dynamic range. Black is really black and with 300W of UHP short-arc illumination, daylight scenes are often eye-painful, especially after a lengthy indoor or low light scene.

I have several Wallace and Grommit movies. The folks at Aardman are geniuses. Will it ever come out on Blu-ray? I wonder what they shot it with? There has to be more useful spacial resolution than DVD offers to make it worthwhile.

I have a significant collection of Japanese anime on DVD. Slowly, I am looking to replace it with Blu-ray. I have seen the future...

But at least this past weekend, I had my first NEW client visit in which I got the opportunity to demo our work on the big screen. I don't know if it will make a difference in winning the bid for the project, but I hope so.

BTW, this threat title should change from EX on 110" Screen to EX on 154" screen, now that I built my own and this is no longer about EX footage on my friend's projection system. :)
 
Ah, are we comparing LCD television to DLP projector?

If that's the case - no competition.

But LCD projector is easily comparable to DLP now.
 
submasonic said:
Here is the info to your question about why Stanley Kubrick's films had lens issues
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
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Thank you, that was a fascinating read!

One of the things I'd like to do with my new EX3 is to experiment with lens adapters and some very high aperture lenses. I'll bet there's some shallow depth of field to be had with an f 0.7 prime. With the right adapter, I could try a variety of lenses, borrowed or bought used, and come up with some possibly very usable setups for specific applications.

A friend of mine brought over a blu-ray of Men in Black tonight and we were observing how the amount of film grain was changing from shot to shot. I started to formulate a hypothesis that the producers reframed some shots, effectively 'zooming in' on portions of 35mm frames, enlarging the grain considerably. Sometimes the film looked nice, other times the grain became really obnoxious, particularly on some outdoor scenes with blue sky in them. Cropping seems to be the only plausible explanation, as the scenes weren't the types one would shoot with high ISO film. And again, chromatic aberration was very noticeable on some scenes with sunlit subjects and a fairly high contrast. Blown highlights on white shirt collars, and many background elements as well. Okay, it was the end of the 90s. :)

So it appears that these lenses that Stanley acquired in his searches may have been selected for the light gathering ability, not the freedom from distortion and reflections among lens elements. But I've really grown to love this director, both in his style and his hands-on approach to technology. In a way, he reminds me of me, choosing to own rather than rent his equipment. So I'm not so wrong to do that as I had been led to believe by some of my contemporaries.
 
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