SKIN TONES
Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, on Blu-ray.
Cinema looks pretty good out of the box. At full power the picture is a just a touch warm, and definitely very watchable. Living Room mode delivers a few hundred extra lumen, and also looks good, although a bit cool. Both can be improved slightly with a single setting change. In the case of Cinema, adjust the color temp setting from 6500 to 7000, and for Living Room, lower it from 7500 to 7000. Bingo, really good just got better, without any calibration.
Dynamic mode is the brightest, and it is heavy on greens. It's the only color mode that doesn't look great. Still, not near as bad as many other Dynamic modes out there, including the BenQ W7000. Mike's "quick-cal" improves Dynamic mode rather nicely without sacrificing too many lumens.
The Cinema mode and Natural are almost identical. Skin tones look very good in both, while in Living room mode, theys till look good if a touch thin on red (unless you follow our suggestion above, or check out the Calibration page)
Post calibration Cinema mode looks really great. It should the projector measures very close to ideal. Visit the performance page where you can see comparative photos comparing the different modes, on a model with plenty of skin showing for the comparison. The uncalibrated Cinema mode looks very good, but it gets even better after Mike's grayscale calibration. Skin tones are a touch softer and better still, after Mike calibrated the individual colors with the Color Management System. All these images are post calibration, but only the grayscale, not the CMS.
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