Christie showcases cinema potential of HDR projection1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNone more black. The last time Rakesh Malik saw blacks as deep as in a Christie projection demo he saw at NAB was when he was deep underground in a cave system in West Virginia. I went on a caving trip in West Virginia some time ago. We scrambled in about a hundred yards or so, then rappelled down a 50-foot section, and another hundred yards or so and around a bend.
In the deepest part of the cave, our guide had us turn off all of our head lamps. He talked for a few minutes while our eyes adjusted, then he had us put our hands in front of our faces. Knowing that your hand is practically touching your nose and yet not being able to see it is a bit disconcerting, but it’s an example of what “black” really looks like.
Christie’s demo at NAB was a small theatre. They showed some standard dynamic range content, and then showed “black” and had the host stand in front of the screen, to emphasise how bright black” really is in a standard theatre by having him cast a shadow on the “black” part of the image.
via: RedShark News
Image Credit: Christie Digital
