Canon WUX10 Full HD Projector

It’s my favorite time of the month, when a nice chunky projector makes it way to our dimly lit, smoke filled labs, behind a digitally processed black and white filter (too much of a noir mood). The guest this time is a new model by Canon called WUX10. It’s from their REALiS series, and is one of the few rare models in the market today with WUXGA resolution, meaning 1920 x 1200, 16:10 image capabilities.

Design and Technical details
This  model is an LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) projector, and is one large unit, not exactly portable. But it comes in a proper carry bag and weighs about 5 Kgs, so carrying around is not an issue. We can use this model as a Home projector too, as it's really bright, besides the high res capabilities. The chassis is lead colored with metallic silver accents on the side and around the lens.

Buttons are positioned neatly on one extremity of the top panel, while connections are on the side panel. These include one HDMI 1.2, one DVI-D, Composite Video in and a VGA. Besides we have a RS-232 control in, and a suite of 3 audio ins and one audio out.

The panel comes with a whopping brightness rating of 3200 ANSI lumens, and a more moderate contrast rating of 1000:1. But in my opinion, with such high brightness, the image will have to sparkle, considering it’s a projector, and projectors never project black, it’s just absence of white, thus contrast should be healthy if kept in a dark room. Canon has a proprietary engine that they call AISYS Engine, a patented optical light engine for achieving brightness and high contrast using LCOS panels.

The lens has a 1.5x powered zoom, and 10:0 lens offset, thus claiming that there is no need for keystone correction as the bottom edge of projected image is in line with the optical axis of the lens. Even the focus is powered, thus no mechanical dials brace the lens from outside.