VW11 filter and gain adjustments..help!

I'd have to guess that doing this by eye, if you are colour blind, will be difficult.

However, the best way to a good colour image is to get a B&W image looking right. Then, full colour will look right, too.

I recommend a B&W movie rather than the optimode displays - because, with a full screen B&W picture, you can see the various shades of grey over the whole screen area, rather than in the optimode blocks.

The early scenes in 'Pleasantville' are good for this purpose.

As to your settings, they vary hugely from PJ to PJ, so comparing others is pretty meaningless. You target (to maximise contrast) is to get the three gain values as close to one another as you can. They will never all be equal, but Red should be the highest figure, and the others close behind.

IF the values you now have are 'right' then you could go for a more dense filter (eg CC40R). If you don't want to do this, then, provided it looks right, that's all you need.

You could increase red to 255 and then increase the others to give correct colour. This may (probably will) over-drive the red LCD. This doesn't cause damage - all it means is that peak whites, for example, will take on a slightly green tinge.

If you then reduce the main contrast setting, this has the effect of reducing gain on all three colours evenly so you can correct the red overdrive without having to go into the service menu again.

Can you persuade someone with unimpeded colour vision to help you?