Epson Home Cinema 3020 Projector – Performance 2

Posted on July 16, 2013 By Art Feierman

Epson Home Cinema 3020 Pre-Calibration Color temp

Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration, best modes)
	Cinema	Cinema (Eco lamp)	Natural
30 IRE	6194	6972	6279
50 IRE	6378	7112	6403
80 IRE	6632	7356	6654
100 IRE	6692	7353	6741

Note that Natural and Cinema are near identical, however dropping into Eco mode results in a very distinct cooling of the colors, raising color temp about 800K. There is a Color Temp setting that can be adjusted downward to compensate in eco mode. We did not remeasure, but a drop dropping of the color temp setting 500K or 1000K should do the trick.

Home Cinema 3020, Post Calibration, Best Mode

Color Temp over IRE Range (Post calibration)
User 1 (based on Cinema)
20 IRE	6767
30 IRE	6539
40 IRE	6410
50 IRE	6453
60 IRE	6467
70 IRE	6516
80 IRE	6576
90 IRE	6625
100 IRE	6772
Average gamma	2.17
Brightness	1362 lumens

Below, the same photo taken with the same exposure so you can get a handle on the relative brightness and color aspects of most of the major modes. Of course, since the exposures are the same, the brightest modes are a bit overexposed, especially Dynamic.

And as long as I’m mentioning Dynamic mode, although Mike did his usual “quick-cal” to improve the brightest mode, I must admit to not using it but for a few minutes. In my room, I found Living Room to still look better, and to be more than bright enough for my purposes. Mike’s settings though, should be very useful to folks working in media rooms, family rooms..