Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Calibration and Settings

Mike's notes (pre-production projector): Preset gamma curves need work.  Gamma is right around 2.2 until you get to 90 IRE and it drops off to 1.5, making the average 2.11 (see grayscale chart).  They’re really all over the place.  Also, only having full range RGB controls makes it difficult to get a good grayscale balance.  Green is in abundance at the higher IREs and absent at lower IREs, so you have to balance it as best you can without making grays look purple or red.  The CIE chart shows pretty good color except for blue and magenta, which are not very accurate.  It’s only really noticeable in test patterns though.

Mike also noted:  The User 2setting don’t seem to retain their starting picture modes, even though they retain the settings.  If you leave User 2 mode, when you go back to it, it’s not the same.

Art's Notes:  Viewsonic advises that this issue of a flakey User 2, has been addressed and fixed.  We will confirm when the new Pro 9000 projector arrives