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REVIEWS / PROJECTORS / CANON INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Canon Xeed SX80 Projector

06 Jan, 2009, 10:00 am IST | Siddharth Bhatia | Projectors

Performance
First things first, a few points on setup. We kept the unit about 12-13 feet away, and achieved a large screen size of 100 inches in full focus. I will have to second the common opinion that LCOS projectors have the smoothest image. The projector has an auto-adjustment button, that does the focus, keystone and size adjustment. This we used, and were thoroughly impressed. Within 4 seconds we had an optimum screen in front of us.

We started off with our regular grayscale tests and calibration, and then measurements of the SX80's pure luminance were taken. The graphs are all displayed: as you can see the projector is pretty neutral, grayscale curve was smooth at 6500K all the way to 100 IRE. this is a very good thing, and implies accurate representation of different levels of brightness. While testing for contrast and brightness, the best option is to use sRGB mode, in fact this mode is pretty spot on throughout the color tests.

Lamp mode should be kept to 'quiet', which will yield a lesser level of max light, though it makes the image better and more neutral. Contrast can be set to +5 max, and black levels are best at a slight negative rating of brightness at about -4. The black levels were good, subjectively speaking, but not spectacular. In my black to white bar pattern, the low intensity (blacker) bars were merging up - no distinction there. It is also recommended to reduce the gamma on the projector to a negative rating when using Windows PCs.

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Tags: Canon , LCOS

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