Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Advanced Calibration Posted on January 18, 2018 By Eric Pfoutz 1. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Home Entertainment Projector Review2. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Special Features - Lens Shift - Frame Interpolation - Streaming with MHL - Miracast - 3D Capable - Built-In Media Player - Portable3. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Hardware - Overview - Inputs and Connectors - The Lens4. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Hardware 2 - Control Panel - Remote Control - The Menus5. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Picture Quality - Out-of-the-Box Picture Quality - Skin Tones - Black Level Performance6. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Performance - Brightness - ECO-Mode: Affect on Brightness, Power Consumption - Sharpness - Image Noise - Audible Noise7. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Advanced Calibration8. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Summary - Summary - Pros - Cons9. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Calibration10. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Specifications Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Advanced Calibration: CMS Calibration, Calibration Charts CMS Settings for “Best Mode” – Natural Mode Natural Mode Pre-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709) Natural Mode Post-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709) Pre-calibration color gamut performance ranged from average to poor. Red, green, cyan & magenta were under saturated at 100% but over saturated at 20, 40, 60 & 80%. Green at 100% was too close to yellow resulting in lime-green. Nonlinear issues like this are impossible to correct because if I move 100% green away from yellow then all the other levels (10-80) move from their targets towards cyan/blue. Red also exhibited this same issue with 100% under saturated and closer to yellow, resulting in a red-orange hue. Cyan 100% saturation level was under at about 85%. Yellow, magenta and blue were in a little better shape and showed the most improvement from calibration. Although red and green have hue errors at their 100% saturation levels, most video content is below 100% so real world video is not effected that much. Post-calibration corrected some errors more than others but overall colors looked good yielding natural flesh tones. RGBCMY Hue Saturation Brightness Red 50 29 67 Green 60 50 50 Blue 50 30 60 Cyan 50 47 64 Magenta 43 32 60 Yellow 50 41 61 Natural Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3) CMS Settings for “Brightest Mode” – Cinema Mode RGBCMY Hue Saturation Brightness Red 45 34 56 Green 44 33 48 Blue 53 39 49 Cyan 44 50 50 Magenta 45 27 51 Yellow 54 49 45 Cinema mode pre-calibration color gamut performance exhibited all of the same issues I found with Natural mode only worse with cyan & yellow both needing additional adjustments to their hue. Post calibration measured very similar to Natural mode. Cinema Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3) 1. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Home Entertainment Projector Review2. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Special Features - Lens Shift - Frame Interpolation - Streaming with MHL - Miracast - 3D Capable - Built-In Media Player - Portable3. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Hardware - Overview - Inputs and Connectors - The Lens4. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Hardware 2 - Control Panel - Remote Control - The Menus5. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Picture Quality - Out-of-the-Box Picture Quality - Skin Tones - Black Level Performance6. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Performance - Brightness - ECO-Mode: Affect on Brightness, Power Consumption - Sharpness - Image Noise - Audible Noise7. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Advanced Calibration8. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Summary - Summary - Pros - Cons9. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Calibration10. Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Specifications Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Performance Epson Home Cinema 2100 and 2150 Projector Review – Summary
