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tweakophyte wrote:
 My monitor is old... but to me it looks like Kilz is at a similar grey-level as the C&S mixes. What am I missing? I thought C&S was considered N9 and Kilz was whiter. |
Kilz2 is not the whitest white, but it is a paint that most DIY screen painters have, and is usually what a screen is primed with.
Some "brightness" numbers for white paint (at least my cans of them):
Kilz2 92.29
Ace Hardware Ultra White flat latex 96.47
Sherwin-Williams Luminous White 96.81
Behr UPW #1050 flat latex 97.19
Valspar int. flat Ultra White enamel 97.32
These are the L* values from the L*a*b* measurements. 100 would be 100% white and 0 100% black. In the real world those top and bottom values are never achieved. The L* value is also very close to what the Munsell N value for the color would be, so close as to be interchangeable for most purposes.
The same value from the C&S mixes are:
C&S #1 90.31
C&S #2 88.38
C&S #3 89.04
It's interesting that I didn't notice this before, but C&S #3 should be visibly brighter than C&S #2, but yet the opposite is shown under PJ light. I attribute this to the sheen from the enamel used to make C&S #2 and/or perhaps the base paint of C&S #3 was muting the reflective qualities of the metallic silver more.
As for laminates recommended for white screens:
Wilsonart Designer White 93.3
Parkland Plastics Polywall 93.4
I don't know what your Do-Able is.
To answer your question
, while Kilz2 is brighter than the C&S mixes, it's not a lot brighter. The C&S mixes are also quite a bit more neutral than Kilz2.
My general understanding of screens is that the brighter white the screen is, the more any ambient light, or even PJ light reflected back onto the screen from ceiling and walls, causes problems.
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How are the black levels by your eyes? Again my monitor is too old for me to tell.
Thanks,
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Funny you should ask.
I was watching some movies on the composite white screen I used for my post and played scenes from a number of different movies. My general thought was "Wow, this white screen stuff isn't so bad.", but then I played a movie I've taken screenies of before ("The Fifth Element") and I didn't watch it long before I was saying to myself "Where the heck did the colors go?". I tried adjusting the PJ and nothing I could do made the picture look like I remembered it under a gray screen.
I would say that the contrast level (range between white and black) was about the same for the white screens. I didn't find myself going "Where are the blacks?", but instead, the whole image lacked "snap" for want of a better word.
I still consider myself to be new at this PJ stuff, so I hesitate to make a recommendation of screen type for others, but as for me; I'm a gray screen man!
BTW, I'm going to be doing another thread called "Why "screenies" don't matter" soon using photos I took from the above white screen.