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the cable, but a good, sideways yank on an HDMI lead usually bends the pins inside the connector – it wasn’t intended as a professional quality interconnect, after all. A loop in the wire, cable tied to something sturdy as strain relief usually does the job. The alloy chassis around the monitor is well supplied, on all sides, with 1/4in and 3/8in threaded mounting holes for accessories. On the left hand side is the slot for the SSD recording medium. The Sumo is supplied with a single (slightly plasticky) caddy for an SSD – we used Samsung’s 850 Pro, 512 GB SSDs, which are on Atomos’s recommended list, and cost less than £200 inc. VAT. The front of the unit just has the screen, four 3/8in threads, bushes and a tally light. The screen doesn’t have an anti-reflection coating, so you may need the optional sun hood, but the touch response is excellent.
consumes 75W, so budget for plenty of batteries if you are away from the mains. There are a couple of feet provided with the monitor which you can attach to stand it on a desk, but I was surprised that it doesn’t come with an attachment to put it on a C-stand – you’ll have to fork out a couple of hundred quid for one from Matthews or suchlike. balanced audio inputs, which can be mic or line level and have phantom power available. You also get a couple of XLR audio outputs, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and there’s a built-in speaker. For video I/O there are two 3G SDI inputs, and two 12G SDI inputs, giving you the ability to record anything from legacy standard- definition up to 4k, which can be I/OS There are a couple of XLRs for
recorded using all four SDIs if your camera doesn’t support 12G. There is also an HDMI 2.0 compliant input, a matching HDMI 2.0 output, a 12G SDI output, genlock/LTC time code and LANC remote inputs. The LANC input, when used with an optional USB to serial adapter, doubles as the input for a hardware calibrator, such as X-Rite’s i1Display Pro. Atomos says that a future firmware update will allow the Sumo to function as a simple router, selecting one of the four SDI inputs to be pushed to the output. The connectors all seem pretty robust. The SDIs are recessed but still protrude a little from the plastic rear panel, but at least they are well attached to the case, so should survive the occasional cable yank. Similarly, the plastic sits tightly around the HDMI connectors, giving them some protection from tugs on
ABOVE The Sumo19 is intended as a DOP/director’s monitor.
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