Panasonic PT-AE8000 Projector Calibration and Settings

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Art Feierman

Below are the calibration settings Mike ended up with in doing a grayscale calibration, and general settings. As is typical, we did not individually calibrate the primary and secondary colors, although the Panasonic does have a full CMS (color management system).

For your convenience we repeat the Panasonic PT-AE8000's brightness and color temp measurements from the Performance page.

Panasonic PT-AE8000 Color Temperature

Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration – best mode)
30 IRE	7060
50 IRE	6730
80 IRE	7032
100 IRE	6695

Before we provide our settings, let's see what we started out with: Pre calibration, these are the color temperatures over the grayscale range.

PT-AE8000 Lumen Output and Color Temp with 100 IRE Field (mid zoom)
Cinema 1	643 @ 7053
Cinema 2	1175 @ 8554
Game	1245 @ 10199
Normal	1285 @ 9746
Dynamic	1898 @ 7757, 1255 lumens with AI off
Rec. 709	622 @ 6695
D-Cinema	643 @ 6437

Panasonic PT-AE8000 Basic Settings

Settings for measurements (default values are in parenthesis)
	Cinema 1	Cinema 2	Game	Normal	Dynamic	REc 709	D-Cinema
Contrast (0)	0	0	1	-1	2	-1	-2
Brightness (0)	1	1	-1	3	1	3	5
Color (0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tint (0)	500	0	0	0	0	0	0

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. In the case of the PT-AE8000 projector, most of these default settings were fairly close to ideal, with only contrast altered more than slightly in most modes.

Color Temp is at default on all
Lamp Mode=Normal (unless noted otherwise)
Auto Iris Off
All other settings at default (untouched)