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"At just over 10 pounds, the WUX10 is also a potentially versatile projector, physically small enough to move from room to room or to be installed in a small-to mid-sized sanctuary with a minimally invasive footprint."
For many, the Canon brand connotes cameras and camcorders, or perhaps office copying machines and printers. Most would, on reflection, also acknowledge the greater breadth of the company's product portfolio, but few are likely to highlight projectors as a Canon specialty and, admittedly, Canon’s projector division is just a few years old. Yet over the past four years Canon has slowly and deliberately been establishing a reputation for high-quality, business-oriented projectors.
It’s an understandable brand evolution, combining Canon’s office products history with its image processing acumen. Interestingly, given Canon’s reputation in both professional and prosumer video, Canon’s projector division has stuck exclusively to business-oriented products rather than home theater models. In fact, the new WUX10 is Canon's first native widescreen, and although it can display HD motion video pixel for pixel, it’s still primarily a business projector.
Yet that combination should appeal to houses of worship: the high-brightness and sharp graphical and text images demanded in office/conference environments matched with a native wide aspect that suits the trend toward wide data screens and wide video sources. Add a high native resolution and the WUX10 yields a lot of displaying options. Its native 1920x1200 resolution matches the 16:10 aspect ratio of many native wide computer sources (1280x800 for example), but the WUX10 can also display native 16:9 video sources and 4:3 sources (either zoomed or with black bars). And a wonderful “True size” mode can display any source into in its own native resolution, pixel for pixel.
Up Close
The WUX10, like the majority of Canon’s projectors, is built around an LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) imagine engine; in this case, Canon’s proprietary AISYS (Aspectual Illumination System) version of LCoS. High resolution is an inherent advantage of LCoS, but other technology has caught up. On the other hand, LCoS also has the ability to all but eliminate any visible pixel grid, even when looking directly at the image from close range, and that’s an advantage the WUX10 shares. The overall result is a sharp, yet still organic and natural looking image.
At just over 10 pounds, the WUX10 is also a potentially versatile projector, physically small enough to move from room to room or to be installed in a small-to mid-sized sanctuary with a minimally invasive footprint. If moved around, an Auto Set auto-adjust feature can go a long way toward achieving an excellent image with minimal user effort, regardless of screen or wall color. A menu feature allows for manual adjustments to R, G and B screen color values, but that simple Auto Set button does a fine job automatically by leveraging Canon’s camera expertise. It can auto focus to a screen or wall, can auto correct for keystone, and the auto image function can accommodate, for example, an off-white or yellow wall by altering the color temperature values to still yield an accurate image.
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Jeff Sauer has covered the professional video and A/V industry for a dozen years and is an independent video producer and consultant in Massachusetts.
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