Canon REALiS SX7 Mark II

Motion Smoothness (5.00)

The Canon SX7 Mark II didn’t handle motion particularly well. Moving images suffered from a lot of motion blur. Photos lost a lot of detail, and moving text was very hard to read.

Motion Artifacting (7.75)

Moving images didn’t have obnoxious artifacting issues, but we still saw some problems. Solid blocks of color were outlined with false coloration, and fine patterns appeared to shudder.

3:2 Pulldown & 24fps

The projector doesn’t have any video processing features to help it with 3:2 pulldown. As a result, motion will look very jittery, and fine patterns will continuously strobe. Fortunately, real footage won’t blink as obnoxiously as an artificial pattern: footage of a pan over an empty stadium only suffered from a slight crawling effect.

Resolution scaling (3.00)

Since you won’t always be outputting images in your projector’s native resolution, we test each unit’s performance with nonnative display formats.

The SX7 Mark II generally didn’t perform well outside of its native resolution. It only had minor issues with 480p content, but any higher resolutions will have significant issues with moire interference: fine patterns will strobe to the point of flashing. The projector had the most trouble with 1080i content, which isn’t surprising: interlacing requires a lot of processing, and processing often creates artifacting.

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