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Panisonic BT-LH 1700 Monitor Calibration
Hey,
I find my panasonic 17″ monitor to look a little green in the blacks. I’ve tested it with multiple cameras. Other then taking it to service shop, does anyone have any advice or user settings i can use to make the monitor look the best it can.
Thanks for your help.
Craig
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Have you always noticed this? Or is this a new occurrence. Do you do normal calibration’s with color bars etc. before you shoot?
Hunter Mossman
Director of Photography
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We have the same issue. Sometimes you think you have the greens right and the reds look hot. Yellows get funny too. Might just ebay the darn thing and get a consumer plasma. I swear, my cheapo Panasonic home Plasma looks better and locks in color better than that “pro” monitor.
Is there a secret menu somewhere on that darn thing?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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It seems like its always been like this. Although it may be a little worse then it was. Not 100% sure. While looking around the menus to try to remedy it, I found a series of deeper menus which give me the option to adjust the color balance and then even deeper I can adjust the specific green-low, red-low, blue-low and the same for High. I found I could adjust them to get rid of the green, but Im worried I may be tweeking something that will cause other colors to read improperly. Do you or anyone else have any experience adjusting this?
Craig
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Oh and I do color calibration with bars before I shoot. Using the blue for chroma and tint and non blue for Contrast and Brightness. But it still has green in the black/shadow areas. I think i’m onto something with these deeper menus.
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How did you get to these “deeper” menus?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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There’s a link to the manual here: https://panasonic.com/business/provideo/support/products/index.asp?id=2&sid=2&cm_sp=PBST%20Support-_-Top%20Nav-_-Production%20Monitors-Studio
And on page 13, there’s a menu configuration outline. It looks like Video Config > Color Temp > Var 1-3 will allow you to play with the color temp, high and low reds, greens, and blues.
I don’t have that particular monitor here to try it out with, but it appears to be the same as the BT-LH2600W that is sitting in front of me.
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