Premium Members Brant S. Fagan SOC Posted March 10, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Ron-- You owe it to yourself to check out the Boland. Great piece of gear at a reasonable price. Excellent customer service as well. I also added the XCS UMB to allow the monitor to attach directly to the GPI/PRO monitor bracket for absolute rigidity. I am in the process of designing a new monitor bracket that will handle the mass of the larger monitors but still have enough holes in it to handle the lightweight lcd units as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted March 12, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I will definitely check one out when I get home. I'm a huge fan of the green screen (mass and visibility) but lcd's are getting better and better every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dana Morris Posted March 12, 2009 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Brant, Did you drill two more holes in the UMB Bracket to fit the 3 holes on the Boland?? can you post a pic? thanks so much. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members James Puli Posted March 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hey guys, I have a Boland monitor on a 3a scissor style monitor arm (De Rose I think) and it works great! Very happy with it. Im just in the process of getting rain covers made for my rig, and wondered with some of the reported heat and fan issues with these monitors, how they will handle a rain cover. Should I build a vent in or something? Any advice here would be muchly appreciated. Thanks guys JP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I was wondering if anyone in the LA area has a 6.5 Boland I can see? I was gonna take a field trip to OC and check them out, thought I'd ask first. rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sydney Seeber Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I was wondering if anyone in the LA area has a 6.5 Boland I can see? I was gonna take a field trip to OC and check them out, thought I'd ask first. rb I bought the 8.4" not the 6.5, but really the selling point for me with the larger monitor is that the monitor case is basically the same size for both... Had the 6.5" case itself been physically smaller, I may have gotten the smaller screen, as it is a tiny bit brighter, but thing is, with the sun reflecting directly off of it, neither monitor is viewable... They both work pretty well unless the sun is directly reflected on the screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I'm curious how much brighter the 6.5 will be with the extra power/nits (2150 vrs 1400 nits on the 8.4). Maybe it won't really make that much of a difference? As far as size, I was referring to the screen/image size and not the case...to me 8.4 is simply too big of a picture. I find with a monitor that big I have to actually scan the frame as opposed to seeing the whole thing at once. I'm an old dog hard to re-train -- been using green screens for 15 years (my model 2 was what...2.5"?! -- with a screen that small everything looks really smooth!). I'm currently using a TB-6 and a Marell 5" as a back-up. On a similar note I always have that problem when dolly grips' monitors are too big -- they end up concentrating on the center or one side and miss stuff creeping in on the other side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Brant S. Fagan SOC Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Yes, I did have to make a new hole to adapt the Boland 8.4 to my GPI PRO monitor bracket. I did also add a washer to back up the UMB as it has been "relieved" on the monitor side to save weight. You can play with the screen image size in the Menu to make it smaller but like any frame, after a few takes, I tend to notice the important items contained within to keep me honest. I agree that "too big" takes some scan time, but being able to discern what is truly in or out on the first pass through the shot is worth the viewing time from my perspective. Like any lcd, you must learn all about what viewing angles work best under certain conditions. As stated earlier, I am very, very pleased with my 8.4 and am working on a yoke to allow for better dynamic balance adjustments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sydney Seeber Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I'm curious how much brighter the 6.5 will be with the extra power/nits (2150 vrs 1400 nits on the 8.4). Maybe it won't really make that much of a difference? As far as size, I was referring to the screen/image size and not the case...to me 8.4 is simply too big of a picture. I find with a monitor that big I have to actually scan the frame as opposed to seeing the whole thing at once. I'm an old dog hard to re-train -- been using green screens for 15 years (my model 2 was what...2.5"?! -- with a screen that small everything looks really smooth!). I'm currently using a TB-6 and a Marell 5" as a back-up. On a similar note I always have that problem when dolly grips' monitors are too big -- they end up concentrating on the center or one side and miss stuff creeping in on the other side. As far as bright, in my opinion there was a slight, not huge difference between the two, but after playing around with it in sunlight, I wasn't able to see any advantage to the slight difference in brightness, as they both were unviewable in direct sun reflection, and everything was fine off axis from that... The stats on their web site are all f-ed up, you'll have to go down to Lake Forest or something to have a look... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Colin Donahue Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I was wondering if anyone in the LA area has a 6.5 Boland I can see? I was gonna take a field trip to OC and check them out, thought I'd ask first. rb Ron, I spoke with Jay O'Brien at Boland about three weeks ago concerning the 6.5. I told him I wanted to come down and check it out. He said he would contact me when they had one to show. I have not heard back yet. Have you scheduled a vistit? They told me they don't really have a showroom and it is not the type of place you can just "drop by" Colin Donahue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 chappies, the monitor shootout is happening, in the death throes of finalizing date and place. Boland will be represented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sydney Seeber Posted May 27, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 They told me they don't really have a showroom and it is not the type of place you can just "drop by" Colin Donahue They don't really... They'd prefer a 3rd party vendor to show you the monitors, but I was having issues there with 3rd party vendors not understanding my questions or having anything in stock, so Boland invited me by to take a look at the stuff in their offices... I kind of felt like I was in the way, but they went out of their way to help with the demo of the two monitors. Have you tried to call the resellers for a demo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted May 28, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 When I called and talked to someone at Boland, he said they are available and didn't seem to mind when I said I wanted to come down and check them out. This was a a few weeks ago befor any talk of a shoot out...I will patiently await the solar carnage. I was at transvideo last week and saw little difference in the 900 nit vrs the 1200 nit cinemonitor as far as brightness. It was "ok" in the sunlight as was the new hd monitor they have. The hd one at least had an flg (which would have to be added with the boland?). rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Traumann Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Hi Dana, you can take the universal tft monitor bracket. http://www.xinetix.de/de/gear/%5Bcatpath-r...tor-bracket-pro Greetings from Germany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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