PT-DW5000 Widescreen Projector Review – Image Quality 3

The first photo of Gandalf has the Panasonic PT-DW5000U in Cinema mode, standard contrast, dual lamp. The second photo uses the same exact exposure, to show you how much brighter the projector is with all settings the same, except for Dynamic mode instead of Cinema. In botht images, the ambient light on the walls around the screen appears significantly darker than the rooms actual condition shown in the small image above. This exposure was necessary to keep the screen of Gandalf from being overexposed, since it is much brighter than the room itself. In the second photo, since the exposure remained the same, this Gandalf image is definitely overexposed, with all the highlight areas blown out. Of course in actual watching the highlight information is all there. You can easily tell that the Panaasonic projector has plenty of power to hand a decent amount of ambient light, even on a gray surface screen approaching 10 foot diagonal.

Above is one of the same images I use in my home theater projector reviews for looking at shadow details. The Panny does a good job along the bottom and inside the shed on the right. I would venture that, in this regard, it easily exceeds most LCD projectors that might compete with it.