BenQ W6000 Projector Calibration and Settings

BenQ W6000 Color Temperature

BenQ W6000 Basic Settings

In addition to calibrating Red Green and Blue for a correct grayscale balance (6500K), there are a number of other settings that come into play. Typically Contrast and Brightness (white balance and black balance), need to be done first. Color saturation and gamma also need adjustment.

Settings for measurements (default values are in parenthesis):

BenQ W6000 Post Calibration Grayscale:Cinema Mode(stored on User 1)

The measurements below were taken with Brilliant Color on:

RGB Settings

About the W6000. Its three Preset modes - Cinema Standard and Dynamic, are simply combinations of Color Temp and Gamma settings. In other words, you can start with Cinema, with Warm as the Color Temp, and 2.2 as the gamma, but if you just change the Color Temp to Normal, then you end up with the same output as starting with Standard, and using the Normal Color Temp.

One nice thing is that when creating a User Savable mode, you can choose which preset is your starting point.

To get the color temp settings above, the following adjustments were made to gain and bias:

Brightest Modes:

Yes, the BenQ W6000 has lots of lumens available. Unfortunately, when the projector is at its brightest (which is Dynamic mode), or for that matter, anytime you select Native Lamp for the color temp, you will get an image too strong on greens (and blues). In Native Lamp, the projector does not let you adjust Gain and Offset so there is no way to improve the overall color balance, other than to definitely recommend that you use Brilliant Color on, with Native Lamp, as it does add some more red. That said, any setup with Native Lamp will still be too green, and you'll likely only use it if you absolutely need every last lumen. Otherwise you will be much better off using Standard mode, with Normal Color Temp, or its own set of Gain and Offset numbers (we didn't do one.) I've been using that setup, - Standard, with Normal, for all my sports viewing.