Epson Pro Cinema 6040UB, Home Cinema 5040UB - Advanced Calibration

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Art Feierman

This is the advanced calibration information for the Epson Pro Cinema 6040UB and Home Cinema 5040UB projectors, available only to our paid subscribers. This "advanced" calibration data was created while using an early engineering sample of the 6040UB. We believe that full production projectors - which are shipping as of early Sept 2016, will have modified color tables. As a result we plan to revisit these projectors, bringing in a full production version, so we can update our review and provide revised settings due to changes made. Update: In the regular calibration review page here, I explain that all previous calibrations are mute, that the latest, with screen shots at the bottom of the regular calibration page, are our best. And that everything is in the screen shots, so this Advanced Calibration Page is no longer needed.

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Cinema Mode

Color Management Settings for Cinema Mode Custom Color Space w/BT.709 starting point
	Red	Green	Blue	Cyan	Magenta	Yellow
Hue	65	51	55	50	66	52
Saturation	7	0	0	0	1	6
Brightness	75	92	86	92	69	80

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Bright Cinema Mode

Color Management Settings for Bright Cinema Mode Custom Color Space w/ BT.709 starting point
	Red	Green	Blue	Cyan	Magenta	Yellow
Hue	53	50	50	56	64	53
Saturation	53	51	50	42	54	50
Brightness	40	42	32	34	34	33

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Bright Cinema Mode

Color Management Settings for Bright Cinema Mode HDR (HDR Mode 1)
	Red	Green	Blue	Cyan	Magenta	Yellow
Hue	50	50	50	50	50	50
Saturation	50	50	50	50	50	50
Brightness	50	50	50	50	50	50

Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Charts

Cinema Post Calibration Results

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709)

In CMS I had to adjust most of the colors (saturation) levels to their extreme negative values to get them close to BT.709. I am confident Epson will fix the issue with the projector displaying the P3 color gamut instead of the BT.709 color gamut for their production units.

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65)

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Gamma Log 2.23 Average Gamma (target 2.20)

Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Charts

Bright Cinema - Post Calibration Results

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Pre-Calibration Gamma Log 1.56 Average Gamma (target 2.10)

Bright Cinema - HDR Results

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode HDR (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65) (Based on calibrated Bright Cinema SDR as starting point)

Resetting all 6 colors to their default values help bring them closer to their targets.

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode HDR (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65) (Based on calibrated Bright Cinema SDR as starting point)

Epson PC6040UB HDR Bright Cinema Mode (HDR Mode1) Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB HDR Bright Cinema Mode (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration (Electro-optical Transfer Function) aka gamma

Epson HC5040UB, PC6040UB Projector - Calibration & Settings

Epson Home Cinema 5040UB / Pro Cinema 6040UB Review Summary

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Epson Pro Cinema 6040UB, Home Cinema 5040UB - Advanced Calibration

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Cinema Mode

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Bright Cinema Mode

Epson PC640UB CMS Settings: Bright Cinema Mode

Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Charts

Cinema Post Calibration Results

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709)

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65)

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Gamma Log 2.23 Average Gamma (target 2.20)

Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration Charts

Bright Cinema - Post Calibration Results

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration CIE 1976 Saturation Sweeps (target BT.709)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode Pre-Calibration Gamma Log 1.56 Average Gamma (target 2.10)

Bright Cinema - HDR Results

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode HDR (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65) (Based on calibrated Bright Cinema SDR as starting point)

Epson PC6040UB Bright Cinema Mode HDR (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration RGB Balance / Grayscale Tracking (target D65) (Based on calibrated Bright Cinema SDR as starting point)

Epson PC6040UB HDR Bright Cinema Mode (HDR Mode1) Post-Calibration DeltaE 2000 (target below error of 3)

Epson PC6040UB HDR Bright Cinema Mode (HDR Mode 1) Post-Calibration (Electro-optical Transfer Function) aka gamma

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