Pro Cinema 4030 Performance 4

Light Leakage

One thing about all the Epson projectors that use this particular projector case have in common is the lack of any significant light leakage.  There’s virtually no leakage out either of the large front vents.  Certainly nothing that could be seen if hitting your screen or front wall.

There is minor light leakage out through the lens, but it is very minimal as well.

Let’s summarize by saying – nothing to be even remotely concerned about.  Good optics, good optical light path, and good case = nothing to see (leakage wise).

If there’s any stray light – it’s the Epson’s bright blue LED indicator lights – two of them.  But, they are mostly on the left side, not front.  And, if they bother you, go into the menus and turn them off when viewing. Then they’ll only work when powering up and down, or if indicating a hardware problem.  Enough said!

Image Noise

The Epson Pro Cinema 4030 projector is pretty clean. It passes our Silicon Optix tests just fine.    With some projectors slow panning is jerkier than others on 24fps movies.  This Epson is better than some others including some very good projectors like Sony’s VPL-HW50ES which is a full $1000 more, and a really fine projector.

Background mosquito noise handled well, and it is signficantly less discernible than on any of the competing DLP projectors.  DLP projectors seem more susceptible to showing visible background noise, although I couldn’t begin to tell you why.  Super-Resolution, as you might expect, when engaged at mid-levels tends to make noise slightly more visible, but even 3, the highest setting I use, still has mosquito noise not as visible as the typical DLP.

Audible Noise