Epson Pro Cinema LS10000 Projector Review - Calibration & Settings

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Art Feierman

Color Temperature

Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration, best mode):
	THX
30 IRE	6192
50 IRE	6307
80 IRE	6597
100 IRE	6744

Before we provide our settings, let's see what we started out with: Pre calibration, these are the color temperatures over the grayscale range.

Lumen Output and Color Temp at 100 IRE:
Dynamic	1615 @ 6091
Living Room	1068 @ 8461
Natural	1215 @ 6750, 938 in Medium lamp mode (default)
Cinema	1146 @ 7390
THX	1224 @ 6744 (in Extra Bright lamp mode)
B&W Cinema	1076 @ 5556
Digital Cinema	1085 @ 7276
Adobe RGB	1050 @ 6692

Basic Settings

Settings for Measurements (default values are in parenthesis)
	Cinema	Dynamic	B&W Cinema	Living Room
Contrast = (0)	1	2	0	2
Brightness = (0)	0	0	0	0
Color Saturation = (0)			(-10)
Tint = (0 for all)
Color Temp = (default)	(2)	(0)	(-2)	(4)
Dynamic Contrast = (HS=High Speed)	HS	HS	HS	Off

Settings for Measurements (default values are in parenthesis)
	Natural	THX	Digital Cinema	Adobe RGB
Contrast = (0)	1	13	1	1
Brightness = (0)	0	0	0	0
Color Saturation = (0)
Tint = (0 for all)
Color Temp = (default)	(6500)	(6500)	(2)	(6500)
Dynamic Contrast = (HS=High Speed)	Off	Off	HS	Off

Lens Iris is 0 for all modes.

All other settings at default (untouched)

Zoom at mid range and Lamp mode on High unless noted otherwise.

Lamp is on Medium by default for Natural, Cinema, B&W Cinema, Digital Cinema, Adobe RGB and THX.

Calibrated color temps, 20-100 IRE
20 IRE	6448
30 IRE	6361
40 IRE	6489
50 IRE	6417
60 IRE	6426
70 IRE	6547
80 IRE	6549
90 IRE	6644
100 IRE	6658

Average gamma = 2.17

NOTE: Using the default gamma yields an average gamma of 2.27

Calibration settings:
	THX (on Memory 1)	Quick Cal of Dynamic (on Memory 2)
Offset (0)
	R = 3	R = 0
	G = -1	G = 0
	B = 8	B = 0
Gain
	R = -2	R = 0
	G = 0	G = -7
	B = -3	B = 0

Gamma	1	0 (default)

Lumens at 100 IRE	1198 @ 6658	1493 @ 6283

Mike's General Comments

Overall, there are a lot of similarities between the LS10000 and the 6030 reviewed last year. If you didn’t know it was a laser projector, you’d never guess it from the performance. Lumen output is equal or greater in all modes than the 6030. Brightness, contrast and RGB balances are all very similar to a lamp projector. This is the first laser projector I’ve seen where I could say that.