The Great Daylight Monitor Shootout

[David M. Aronson]

Has anyone used Sony's 7.4" OLED monitor on their rigs? That might be a good one for the shootout too.

[William Demeritt]

I have designs on us pulling off the Great Transmitter Debacle this summer and it would be easy enough to fold in a mini-monitor comparison at the same time.

 

I've got a rolling cooler and a Camelbak. Let's set out on this magical journey. I may even film BTS so we can create our own Blair Transmitter Project.

[RonBaldwin]

I hope I am able to be a part of this. The treasury dept thought I was up to no good since the distribution of ones in the US was terribly skewed as Charles mentioned. When they saw how the "skew" was happening (and after making it rain a few times themselves) they decided rehab was the best option and put me on a flight to NY to be far away from the palace of vice. I may be here for a while...I am pretty skewed myself. But maybe the new cinetronic won't be ready until xmas anyways...which will give me time to heal, and the treasury time to redistribute the rain.

[Twojay Dhillon]

I can bring the guaranteed-to-win TB-6 :D

[Jess Haas SOC]

Anti-reflection coatings. I lot of monitors will burn your eyes if you get a direct reflection from the sun or a 10K. This is a big issue in my book. (as David said, "stupid glossy screen")

Sadly it seems like most of the coatings only make matters worse making it completely unviewable when you get sun or other bright reflection on it . While less protected it seems to me that screens that give you the bare LCD screen instead of glass+anti-reflective coating have the best daylight viewability.

 

The OLEDs that showed up at the last daylight monitor shootout had horrible daylight viewability but my phone which has an OLED screen gives me great hope for the technology. It looks great even in direct sun and can be viewed from any angle. Now we just need it with a bigger screen in the right formfactor and with the right features.

 

~Jess

[Charles Papert]

Has anyone used Sony's 7.4" OLED monitor on their rigs? That might be a good one for the shootout too.

 

I tested that monitor when it first emerged a couple of years ago and it was useless in daylight.

[Alex Kolb]

Not a brightness question, but I figure a lot of posts have already deviated into discussing non brightness features of various monitors, and I'd rather not start a new thread.

 

Can a transvideo cinemonitor owner chime in about the tally? All the ops I know with one use an external tally over the built in one, and I'm not sure if it's because the built in one doesn't cut it. I also heard that the cinemonitor frame line edges go red when tally is live if you feed the signal in, but I may have misunderstood. Can someone offer feedback on this?

[Rob Vuona SOC]

Not a brightness question, but I figure a lot of posts have already deviated into discussing non brightness features of various monitors, and I'd rather not start a new thread.

 

Can a transvideo cinemonitor owner chime in about the tally? All the ops I know with one use an external tally over the built in one, and I'm not sure if it's because the built in one doesn't cut it. I also heard that the cinemonitor frame line edges go red when tally is live if you feed the signal in, but I may have misunderstood. Can someone offer feedback on this?

 

Yes Alex,

The Transvideo actually has multiple tally options and one of them is the 4 corners around the frame line that light up when your camera is cued. I have to have a tally for a majority of my shoots and I have made my own and used the internal tally and the transvideo is actually quite awesome. The system I helped design with Steadicam not only cues your transvideo monitor but also illuminates a small Red LED that can be attached to the lens hood or to a prompter to help cue talent.

[Alex Kolb]

Thanks Rob! Always great to hear from one as well versed as you in live TV when it comes to these things, that being my area of work as well.