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  • David Cavallo 3:00 pm on February 24, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: false color, , monitor,   

    Marshall False Color IRE issue 

    As those of you who follow our Endless Picnic blog probably know, we’re big fans of Marshall monitors. We love both the 7″ LCD70XP-HDMI and the 5″ V-LCD50-HDMI, which shine for all sorts of reasons, especially with our Canon 5DMKIIs.

    One of the most of useful features of both models is the False Color mode, which we’ve seen become popular throughout the industry as a quick and useful exposure guide for HD cinematography, both on our Marshalls and on RED One’s monitor.

    But recently when reviewing some 5D footage, our colorist/editor Alex Ricciardi mentioned that he’d noticed some discrepancies when comparing the Marshall False Color scale and Apple Color’s Waveform monitor: it appeared that the False Color IRE scale was reading about 10 IRE too high when compared to the software scopes. Knowing how much I rely on the False Color scale for proper exposure, I decided to investigate.

    I began by doing some casual tests around our office (More …)

     

  • Tyler Cartner 1:05 pm on December 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , HD, monitor, wireless   

    HD FLOW Wireless HDMI : 5D/7D wireless monitor solution on the cheap? 

    Hello folks,

    We recently saw this little HD wireless kit on Markertek’s web site and thought it might make the perfect wireless field solution for the 5D on the cheap. We ordered one and tested it. We thought we’d save ya’ll a little time and talk about the pros and cons.

    HD video transmitted almost instantly through the air for under $400!? Yes indeed, and the image was pretty good too. It was re-compressed on the fly (h.264), but damn if it wasn’t fast at 30ms and the image quality was very good with the exception of some artifacts when the image got busy. (More …)

     

    • Laffrey Witbrod 1:26 pm on December 15, 2010 Permalink

      This look cool, thanks for sharing it with us. How do you mount it to the camera?

      Thanks

      Laffrey

    • Tyler Cartner 12:04 pm on December 16, 2010 Permalink

      There is a video from a trade show of a guy running around with the transmitter attached to his belt somehow. Mounting would be entirely up to you since this unit was not designed for production use.

    • raoul 12:58 pm on February 8, 2011 Permalink

    • Tyler Cartner 11:22 am on February 23, 2011 Permalink

      Hello and welcome,

      I discovered the Brite-view after writing this up and meant to add it. You beat me to the punch. I use the Brite-view in my home as a blu ray hop to a digitial projector and it works very well, 1080p with no compression! I didn’t have to tear up my ceiling! I have not tested the HDMI handshaking with either the 5D or the 7D, but based on the time it takes with my blu ray I’d say it’s probably not a good field solution for the 5D, but may be for the 7D. And again, this unit is fairly cheap plastic so I’m not sure how it would hold up in the field, but for $200 a pop I’d be willing to buy two and have one as a backup.

      I disagree with you that 30ms is too much delay. Shooting at 24 frames per second, each frame is about 42ms, so 30ms is a subframe delay. Some professional wireless solutions have a much longer delay. And certainly it would be fine for a video village. Maybe a focus puller might have issue, depends on the puller.

      Thank you for suggesting the Brite-view!

    • El Jefe de Nada 9:36 pm on February 23, 2011 Permalink

      Very cool blog, Mr. Cartner and Mr. Cavallo. Not sure about this obsession with the 5D (look how big the tag is!), but seriously, great info. Thanks!

  • David Cavallo 10:57 am on November 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , Marshall vs smallHD, monitor, shootout, , SmallHD   

    5D Monitor Showdown! 

    Lately there’s been something different about the Endless Picnic office…could it be all those cardboard monitor boxes, both big and small, piled high ’round the room? Sure it is! Pesky as they might be, they’re signs that changes are afoot here at HQ, and I’m here to tell you what new field monitors we’ve been testing for our 5D rigs, as well as run down the pros and cons of each.

    Now keep in mind that we’re not gonna bog you down with pages n’ pages of tech specs (that’s not our bag, so we’ll leave it to others to fill you in on every last transistor and pixel) but we will serve up some pragmatic notes on how some of the newest HDSLR monitoring solutions stack up in real world situations. Ready?

    The contestants today–dig the links to the manufacturers, if you please–are as follows:

    Marshall V-LCD70XP-HDMI 7″
    Marshall V-LCD50-HDMI 5″
    smallHD DP6 HDMI 5.6″

    These three monitors all have a few things in common: (More …)

     

    • David Cavallo 3:11 pm on August 21, 2011 Permalink

      Hey folks, just wanted to add a few important updates to this review. (Sorry for the delay, but things have been super busy at Endless Picnic!)

      • A few months ago we upgraded one of our Marshall V-LCD70XP-HDMI monitors. The factory installed update added an HDMI loop-through feature, which eliminates the tremendous headache of using an HDMI splitter when working with multiple monitors or an EVF, as well as a DSLR ratio adjustment feature, which, like the smallHD DP6, allows the unit to display a full screen image while you’re recording with a DSLR. These features work wonderfully in the field and the studio, and have really improved an already excellent unit.

      In addition to making the upgrade available for older units, Marshall sells a new model with these features:

      http://www.lcdracks.com/monitors/model/V-LCD70XP-HDMIPT.php

      • Additionally, I thought I should add that the smaller MARSHALL V-LCD50-HDMI has proven to be somewhat erratic in the field as far as color reproduction and image quality are concerned. Under certain circumstances–with tungsten lights for a night interior, for example–I had a terrible time getting a strange golden cast out of the image–no matter what white balance settings I used. (This cast was absolutely not there on the 5D’s LCD screen.) I recently recailbrated the unit with Alex, our colorist, and it looked solid enough in our office, but I’ll confess that my confidence in using the unit to gauge color is a bit shaken, despite my initial impressions. It’s still great for black and white
      shooting, though!

      • Recently, word came through the rental house grapevine that Small HD had updated the firmware for the DP6-HDMI. Being the objective, higher truth seekin’ types that we are here at Endless Picnic, we borrowed a unit and installed the latest version. Unfortunately, after another good hour of attempting to calibrate it, we found that the same picture issues still existed as in our original review. As such, we still stand behind our original review of the unit’s image quality and color reproduction.

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