Equipment

Folks:

First, I am unable for whatever reason, to receive e-mail from this web site. If any of you want to answer me, please do so direct. Charlie at wildimages.biz will get to me direct.

This was a good afternoon to test calibrate the club's projector. I have been working on this now for four hours and to be honest, it is spot, let me repeat, spot on. I have tested it against some of the images submitted for this month's competition and when they looked overexposed, looked at them on four other computers all with calibrated monitors. They looked overexposed on all my monitors so all I can conclude is, they are overexposed. A case in point is any image with predominant whites.

To further test this finding, I downloaded an image with predominant whites to my editing computer, worked on it, sent it back to the Club's computer and projected it. It looks just right, not overexposed.

To go one step further, I took five of my own images of snowfields, icebergs and other white images, almost totally white. They are spot on, spot on. I do not experience the problems others have and to be honest, I don't think, actually I know, the problem is not in the club's projector. I have proved it here today and Chuck and Rita witnessed the tests.

Here is what I think is the problem. Folks don't either have calibrated monitors, the monitor has gone a bit off since the last calibration OR something is changing the files in transit but funny, it seems to happen to only a few.

I cannot do more with projector calibration as there is nothing that can be done to correct a proper projecting projector. That is the real world bottom line. I think I will take a few moments before the next competition to show the test white images I used to confirm proper exposure.

Now all that being said, I don't have the Club's screen so all calibration was done with our portable screen which I think is similar to the club's but not identical. Calibration was also done in a room darkened to simulate the ambient light present in the meeting room.

This may not be what everyone wanted to hear but it is an accurate assessment of our projector, its exposure level and color balance.

Charlie..>>