A few weeks ago I had a Blackbird monitor sent up to Vancouver, at the time I was working on a ABC show and we were using the ArriCam system. I have to say that my first look at the monitor did not produce a very good image. The colours were off and the picutre was very digitized particularly when the monitor was showing interior shadow and highlight areas.
I took the monitor to David Habley, the Vancouver steadicam electronics wizard, he performed a few simple tests, for example the "5 step" grey bars and his opinion was that there was something wrong with the monitor. Ok, I happended to get a bad one.
My problem is that after the monitor was returned and checked, Guy at ZGC said that there was nothing wrong. I'm not sure what to think since I tested the monitor on one of the best camera/video taps and had a professional run some tests.
Any help out there with what to do? Am I too critial of the LCD monitor?
Sincerely,
Brian Rose
IA669 steadi-op