Canon Projector, Uses Less Lamp and more Lens

The newest projector in the Canon line, the LV-8235, can purportedly project an image of 80-inches from only 1-inch from the screen. This is a pretty amazing concept considering if you tried this about 10 years ago, you would have an image the size of the lens! The LV-8235 was brought out to compete with the Sanyo PDG-DWL2500 and will do very well in the professional market.

It has a resolution of 1280 x 800p, which is really competitive these days and definitely will not disappoint whether you are using it for text based presentations or video. The lumens is 2500 ANSI, and while you might be thinking that in the year 2011 you should be getting a brighter image, since after all your old home cinema Sanyo gives almost double the amount in brightness, you have to think again. This type of projector was designed to project from extremely close distances, with the idea being that nothing will stand in between your projector and the screen. Therefore you actually need fewer lumens to project this image because there is both a shorter distance, and less ambient light interference.

What this ends up meaning is that you use less energy to power and cool your projector and your lamp should for all intensive purposes last longer under the common conception that a lower wattage is more efficient. This is good news for the buyer because they will spend less in replacement lamps, however you will need to spend more on the projector itself. While the LV-8235 is not expensive, it also does not come cheap. This is the paradox of the middle market projectors.

It is priced at $3900 USD, mostly due to the impressive lens that comes with the projector. And while everybody seems to be concerned with lumens and resolution, these two factors become obsolete without the addition of a decent lens. The price of lenses is not about to come down anytime soon and they are always the most expensive part of any commercial grade projector, hence why you have to pay over $2000 to get anything that can be applied to professional use. The price of everything else seems to be coming down, and resolution and lumens seems to be going up, however this is really only useful for small application purchasers.

The Canon LV-8235 maxes out at 110 inches wide, and so it is somewhat limited in its scope but is still definitely one of the best and only options out there for short throw projectors.