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Got my new Panasonic 42 pro plasma up and tweaked in..
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[Tony Manolikakis]
“variation amongst different units especially in the consumer variety”Who builds the Pro Plasmas? Where are they built? I know the parts are different but I haven’t seen any documentation covering the QC process.
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Motion Design, Color, Editing
SWGC Incorporated -
To be honest, my comment about variations amongst monitors is based on anecdotal evidence. In discussion with Cinetal and other users of Panny’s as reference monitors the conclusions I came to was that there was no one setting that worked for all monitors and that is where the box-probe model seems best. I would love to get this to work and I think it’s absolutely necessary for 3D stereoscopic work where you need the larger screen to gauge convergence.
Tony Manolikakis
Rev13 Films -
Robert,
Just to warn you Lightspace is an amazing product for converting and building custom LUT’s, however that is all predicated on it being able to generate a correct profile of the plasma. Unless they’ve resolved this issue there are some really big challenges for creating profiles from Panasonic plasmas. I would highly suggest contacting Steve Shaw at Light Illusions to see if they’ve resolved this. He’s a really nice guy! Lightspace didn’t work for me because I couldn’t get it to create the correct profile for my Panny.
Additionally VideoEQ Pro is great in conjunction with Calman but it doesn’t allow you to feed it a LUT, (that feature may be added in the future), though if Calman allows you to calibrate for other color spaces like P3, the VideogEQ Pro has custom presets, so you could build a LUT for Rec709, P3, etc and assign it to the different presets respectively.
Cheers,
Denver Riddle -
My primary interest in Lightspace is for Projection calibration for Film DI mostly from 35mm or 16mm 2K scans and D-Cine files which will be returning to film/DCP for presentation. I like the idea of being able to calibrate the Panny for Rec 709 only because I would not grade a film project on a direct view display anyhow.
-Rob-
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Touche! Lightspace would be perfect then 🙂
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Your solution does save us quite a bit until we set up a projection based room and seems to be a great solution for a HD / Assist station.
-Rob-
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I’ve been looking for the 42 pro Panasonic plasma but all I get is Viera, is this what we’re talking here? Is there a link, or a specific product number?
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I for one was referring to the Panasonic TH-42PH11UK Pro Plasma
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Just to add some info to this thread, I’ve used LightSpace to calibrate a range of plasmas, and the results have been near perfect.
Most have been with HDlink Pro boxes, with one using a Davio, and a couple using the output LUTs in the DI system – Resolve being a common system in use.
We also have a lot of customers using LightSpace with plasmas for self calibration, all calibrating very well.
I obviosuly spent a lot of time helping Denver with his use of LightSpace, but for the life of me I still have no idea why it didn’t work for him. It profiles plasmas as well as any other display.
I really wish we had got to the bottom of Denver’s probelms :o(
Just wanted to add this info as it may help others.
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