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Barco Iris3 any good

 
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dormie1360



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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:43 am    Post subject: Barco Iris3 any good

Iris3 is installed on my 1209s. I never bothered to mess with it. I just read the manual and it sounds great if it works. Anyone have any experience using it?

Thanks,
John
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:52 am    Post subject:

double post Embarassed

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Zebu Fellenz



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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:52 am    Post subject:

Welcome to the Forum,

I wouldn't rely on IRIS for a good setup, it is useful though for getting a watchable image when you try a new resolution or for doing a quick setup after you carry your 1209s over to a friends house for a movie Wink
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dormie1360



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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:56 am    Post subject:

Zebu Fellenz wrote:
Welcome to the Forum,

it is useful though for getting a watchable image when you try a new resolution or for doing a quick setup after you carry your 1209s over to a friends house for a movie Wink


Thanks, this is an excellent idea as I often take my Barco over to friends for some evening movie watching. I usually start drinking before I do the convergence, so we wind up watching a "3D" movie. Wink
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kal
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:19 am    Post subject:

dormie1360 wrote:
Thanks, this is an excellent idea as I often take my Barco over to friends for some evening movie watching.

Seriously? A Barco 1209s weighs 181 lbs! You move that thing around often? That's crazy!

dormie1360 wrote:
I usually start drinking before I do the convergence, so we wind up watching a "3D" movie. Wink

I'd hate to see how you get that 181 lbs back home at the end of the evening!
After a night of movie watching/drinking I can hardly get myself up the stairs, let alone nearly 200 lbs of projector. Wink

Kal

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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:29 am    Post subject:

It's a hefty some bitch but worth every pound ! Laughing
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BGSPCS



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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:32 am    Post subject:

I have IRIS on my Cine 6 and it gets a good picture, but not perfect.

With my old BG400 i never had it completely converged after several hours of adjusting 100 pots. The 15 minutes IRIS takes gets the picture to about 90% converged. You can probably use IRIS to get it close then manually tweak it to 100%.

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dormie1360



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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:29 am    Post subject:

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Seriously? A Barco 1209s weighs 181 lbs! You move that thing around often? That's crazy!


Kal......sorry I should have used a different Emoticon. Tongue was firmly in cheek. When I originally installed the projector just getting it from the garage to to the basement was an adventure. I rented one of those "fork lifts" that you hand crank to get it to the ceiling. I hope I never have to move it. Smile


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The 15 minutes IRIS takes gets the picture to about 90% converged. You can probably use IRIS to get it close then manually tweak it to 100%.


Good to know, I'll give it a try.

I often read where someone says a projector is 80 or 90 percent calibrated. I've never seen 100% in person so it's hard for me to even know where mine is currently at. What I really should do is quit procrastinating and give Ken Whitcomb a call, he's only a couple of hours up the road.

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John
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BGSPCS



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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:12 pm    Post subject:

Be sure to center the rasters on all of the tubes. Also, you may also have to mechanically align the tubes to make sure that convergence settings aren't oven driven.

On my Cine6 there are menus to focus and center the IRIS camera, you should go through that to ensure its focused and aligned for best performance.

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kal
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:02 pm    Post subject:

FYI - the IRIS only does geometry/convergence so even if that's 100% correct I wouldnt' say the projector is then 100% "calibrated". You still have things that iris can't do like optical focus, electronic focus, scheimpflug (lens flapping), astigmatism (2/4 pole magnets), electronic zone astig, brightness, contrast, greyscale, and gamma curve.

Here's a list/order to do them in for Barcos: http://www.curtpalme.com/Barco_Setup_Quick_Reference_Guide.shtm

IRIS only does item #6.

Kal

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zGman



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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:43 pm    Post subject: Iris/

Hi,
One thing you may want to consider is that the IRIS can totally
whack out a nice setup - You would be wise to test it with a new
input frequency so that it will jump into a different memory block.
I have seen several of these in action, but rarely found it to do
an acceptable job. Maybe it would be handy for an AV tech rolling
a PJ into a different presentation venue every day, but for a fixed
install it is definitely better to iterate your setup through the handy
list/guide that Kal linked earlier.
Galen
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