Blu-ray Screenshot Thread (Large Files)

[ricwhite]

SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU GO TO THE VERY FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD IT WILL HAVE LINKS TO MOST OF THE MOVIES POSTED HERE. IT IS A QUICK WAY TO FIND YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE SCREENSHOTS.
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Equipment: Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB Projector / 106" DaLite High Power Screen / Toshiba HD-A35 HD DVD Player / Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player / Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver / Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 Digital Camera

Library: 48 HD DVD Movies / 50 Blu-ray Movies

Blu-ray Movie Title: Unbreakable

Overall Picture Quality Rating: Fair 2.5/5

[QuasidodoJr]

This is my first try ever at doing screens, so I'll only bother posting specs if everyone else thinks they're good enough for me to do more.

College Road Trip





I don't have a stand, it's just a 12.1 megapixel Sony Cybershot digital camera. So, the images are slightly crooked. I'll let you guys decide if I should bother with this experiment again. Heh.

[ricwhite]

QuasidodoJr, Those shots look pretty good -- especially if you're not using a tripod. I used to try to take screenshots by holding the camera and wedging my forearms between my knees as I sat in front of the screen. But, in the end, there was no way to get fine detail in the images without a tripod. In fact, I now not only use a tripod, but I also use a timer so the camera doesn't move when I press the shutter button. Any little movement at all softens or blurs the fine details. Larger details can look okay without a tripod, but not the fine details.

Another thing that is VERY common with photographing in dark conditions is that the camera tends to push one color more than it should. With my camera, I tend to get a green push. I had to adjust my color settings to offset it. It took a LOT of tweaking in order to get the best settings for exposure and color balance.

It appears that your camera in low light tends to push the reds. This is probably the most common of all color problems for digital cameras in low light. Cameras also tend to push saturation some. If you can adjust for that -- either with the camera or with photo software -- then your images will look more like they do on your actual display.

For Example. One of the images that is a little red and saturated:



After adjusting some for the red push and the over-saturation.



The second photograph is probably closer to what you actually saw on your display. I mostly reduced saturation and reduced red a touch. Some people like more saturation, but I like a more natural looking image.

I look forward to seeing more of your screenshots.

[*** Nomis1 ***]

Great shots QuasidodoJr, keep em coming!.

[QuasidodoJr]

Thanks Nomis1!

And Thanks a lot for the input, Ric. I'll try again tonight with a different movie and I'll tweak the settings on the camera.

[ricwhite]

SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU GO TO THE VERY FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD IT WILL HAVE LINKS TO MOST OF THE MOVIES POSTED HERE. IT IS A QUICK WAY TO FIND YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE SCREENSHOTS.
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Equipment: Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB Projector / 106" DaLite High Power Screen / Toshiba HD-A35 HD DVD Player / Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player / Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver / Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 Digital Camera

Library: 48 HD DVD Movies / 50 Blu-ray Movies

Movie Title: Planet Earth - Part 1: Pole to Pole / Mountain / Fresh Water

Overall Picture Quality Rating: Excellent 4.25/5

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Mountain










Fresh Water

[jj5206]

planet earth looks so epic. We watched some of it in Earth Science on standard dvd, and i just couldn't imagine what it looked like in blu.

[QuasidodoJr]

Here's my new attempt. I definitely need to get a tripod, however. I do hope these look a little better, though.

Equipment: Philips 42" LCD/PS3/Sony Cybershot 12.1 megapixels digital camera
Movie: The Bank Job
Video Rating: 3.5/5 - The film tends to look rather soft in really dark or really light scenes, and because of the unusual yellow-ish coloring used, some of the textures look odd. If you look at the close-up of Saffron Burrows a little ways down, there's fine detail on the wooden post next to her, yet she looks kind of waxy, which leads me to believe some DNR may have been applied.

[indiephantom]

I'm new to BD and I'm disturbed to find that the built-in intervideo BD player doesn't seem to have a screen capture function?? How can I do caps?

[kx11]

^^^^^
try latest cyberlink powerdvd

[aygie]

Originally Posted by ricwhite

SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU GO TO THE VERY FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD IT WILL HAVE LINKS TO MOST OF THE MOVIES POSTED HERE. IT IS A QUICK WAY TO FIND YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE SCREENSHOTS.
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Spoiler Warning: The following screenshots may display spoiler content. View at your own risk.

Equipment: Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB Projector / 106" DaLite High Power Screen / Toshiba HD-A35 HD DVD Player / Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player / Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver / Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 Digital Camera

Library: 48 HD DVD Movies / 50 Blu-ray Movies

Movie Title: Batman Begins

Overall Picture Quality Rating: Excellent 4.5/5

PQ 4.5?!?!?!?! Sorry dude but you know as well as i do its really soft. 2.5 or 3 max. Very disappointing. The bit rate stays between 15-25 mbps for the whole movie, now compare that to the Prologue (which had a bit rate of about 25-30 mbps) which is noticeable lot better encode.

[QuasidodoJr]

Equipment: 42" Philips LCD / PS3 / Sony Cybershot 12.1 Megapixels Digital Camera

Movie: 30 Days of Night

PQ Rating: 4.5/5 - Some of the finer details get lost in really dark scenes, but otherwise this film's picture quality is very solid.

[*** Nomis1 ***]

Great pics again QuasidodoJr.

[QuasidodoJr]

Thanks! I'm going to pick up a tripod tomorrow to make it much less of a hassle to get quality screens.

If there are any movies people would like for me to do, just check my collection in my sig to see if I have it and if I do, just leave me a post here and I'll do it up.

[ricwhite]

QuasidodoJr, I'm looking forward to seeing more of your screenshot contributions. You'll notice a difference using a tripod. I even use a timer on each of my shots to minimize any movement.

It'll be nice to have some new regular posters here to liven things up.

[ryoohki]

Originally Posted by Aygie

PQ 4.5?!?!?!?! Sorry dude but you know as well as i do its really soft. 2.5 or 3 max. Very disappointing. The bit rate stays between 15-25 mbps for the whole movie, now compare that to the Prologue (which had a bit rate of about 25-30 mbps) which is noticeable lot better encode.

No, this is not related what soever. ThePrologue come from a IMAX print at 70mm, Begin look the way it is because of the Director of phography. Dark knight looked the extact same way at cinema it was soft focused just like Begin and The Prestige (witch is the same team). I really doubt that Dark Night on Blu-ray will look any better than Begin, useless they use the IMAX footage (28 minutes) and put it in the Blu-ray...

[QuasidodoJr]

Originally Posted by ricwhite

QuasidodoJr, I'm looking forward to seeing more of your screenshot contributions. You'll notice a difference using a tripod. I even use a timer on each of my shots to minimize any movement.

It'll be nice to have some new regular posters here to liven things up.

Thanks! I probably won't do any tonight, but I'll do something up tomorrow night. I'll pick something from my collection no one else has covered yet.

[jj5206]

Originally Posted by QuasidodoJr

Thanks! I probably won't do any tonight, but I'll do something up tomorrow night. I'll pick something from my collection no one else has covered yet.

the first Mission Impossible?

[QuasidodoJr]

Originally Posted by jj5206

the first Mission Impossible?

Sure! I'll do it tomorrow night.

[aygie]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

No, this is not related what soever. ThePrologue come from a IMAX print at 70mm, Begin look the way it is because of the Director of phography. Dark knight looked the extact same way at cinema it was soft focused just like Begin and The Prestige (witch is the same team). I really doubt that Dark Night on Blu-ray will look any better than Begin, useless they use the IMAX footage (28 minutes) and put it in the Blu-ray...

So let me get this straight your saying that Batman Begins is the best it can be? Because it was the DOP's intention? Go walk through the insider threads and then say the same thing. Its soft because it was encoded for HD-DVD end of story.

The prestige was the same, encoded for HD-DVD and the BD suffered for it. (Its still a better encode than BB).

The point is it is not worth 4.5. Warner could be so much better but their not and wont be for a long time.