Re: Barco Lens Calculator Download Mac
Rivka Licklider
Selecting the ideal lens for your application can be a challenge. That's why we already developed a lens calculator many years ago. This tool helps you in finding the projector lens that best suits your needs in just a couple of clicks.
A projection calculator is used to calculate a screen size when a projector is a specific distance away from the screen. As you move a projectoraway from the screen or wall, the image will get bigger, and as you push the projector closer to the screen or wall the image will be smaller. To properlyfit your image onto a screen you need a projection calculator tool or throw chart to tell you the image size dimensions at the correspondingthrow distance.
To determine the Image Size (screen size) enter a distance measurement number in the Throw Distance value box and hit the Enterkey on your keyboard, or slide the Throw Distance slider back and forth until you find a number in the value box that represents thedistance between the lens of the projector and the surface of the screen. On the graphical representation of a screen in the middle of thecalculator, you will see dimension lines that will tell you the height, width, and diagonal measurements of your image.
To determine the Throw Distance for where you should place your projector in the room, enter an image diagonal measurement number in the Image Sizevalue box and hit the Enterkey on your keyboard, or slide the Image Size slider back and forth until you find a number in the value box thatrepresents the diagonal distance between the top right corner of your image (screen) and the bottom left corner of your image (screen). Onthe graphical representation of a projector in the middle of the calculator, you will see dimension lines that will tell you the Throw Distancemeasurement between the front of the projector lens and the surface of your wall or screen.
If your selected projector has a Zoom Lens then the projector's Throw Distance or Image Size can be finely adjusted by moving theZoom Lens ring on your projector. The Zoom Range slider in the calculator will help you calculate the changes made by a Zoom Lens.
Using the blue padlock icons next to the Throw Distance value or Image Size value you can havethe Zoom Range slider only affect one of the two controls.If you press the blue padlock icon next to the Throw Distance value so that theicon shows a Lock symbol, then moving the Zoom Slider will onlyadjust the Image Size bigger or smaller as would be visually represented ifyou turned the Zoom Lens ring on your projector's zoom lens to make the image bigger or smaller. If you click the padlock next to the Image Sizevalue so that the icon shows a Lock symbol, then moving the Zoom Slider will only adjust the Throw Distance position of the projectorin your room. The position of the projector in your room changes because you will need to move the projector closer or further away from the screento maintain the same image size to match your screen when turning the zoom lens ring.
About the TLD+ lens 90 Ultra Short Throw (UST)
This lens is exclusively designed to be used on the Barco projector series UDX, HDX and HDF. The lens output is 90 turned. This allows an optimal use of the vertical shift range when projecting to the left seen from the rear side of the projector.
This lens is designed for ultra short throw video performance.
Lens shift +/-150%, depending on projector type, please use the Barco Lens calculator to calculate actual values.
For UDX series the motor block must always be located above the lens body when
facing the projector from the front side in table mount.