DEFINITION January 2019

MON I TORS | GEAR GROUP

SOUND VISION Long-term testing of some monitor technologies has illuminated problems, but there’s still some great products out there

WORDS JULI AN M ITCHELL

PV270 BenQ

S-1073H SWIT

DP-V2411 Canon

Verdict The screen is pleasant to look at with a matte, non-reflective surface and very even backlight illumination. Viewing angle is good and stand is adjustable. features for professional grading and perhaps deserves more attention. The panel is ten bit, 2560x1440 pixels and covers 100% of the Rec. 709 colour space (but only 96% of DCI-P3). It supports hardware calibration using BenQ’s version of X-Rite’s software suite, and uses X-Rite’s excellent i1Display Pro, i1Pro or i1Pro2 spectrophotometers. IT ISN’T ALWAYS APPROPRIATE to spend £30k on a grading monitor. Lower-budget productions may well be graded in a small suite – often doubling as the edit suite – with no cash available for high-end equipment. One option for these small suites is a monitor that sits halfway between a full grading unit and one designed for photography and print. The BenQ PV270 is a 27in post-production grading monitor with DVI-DP, HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2 inputs, but none of the I/O associated with higher-end monitors – SDI, analogue and the like. Nevertheless, the monitor has many

Verdict The S-1073H is a workmanlike camera monitor with substantial built-in Rec. 709 conversions in order to deal with high-end cameras. log to Rec. 709 conversion LUTs, including Log-C, C-log, S-log2, S-log3, V-log, J-log1 and RedLogFilm. You can also import your own 3DLUTs to monitor by USB stick and support 17x17x17 3DLUT cube files. THE NEW S-1073H FROM SWIT IS A seven-inch LCD TFT panel with LED backlight, a native high-definition resolution of 1920×1200 and a contrast of 1000:1 with a 160° viewing angle, both horizontally and vertically. The new SWIT is packed with features – the non-glaring LCD screen being the standout. I/Os include 3G-SDI and HDMI 2.0 (4K60p) input and loop output. Users can also select any two audio channels to output via 3.5mm socket or speakers. Video features include a nine step quick zoom-in and mapping, and there is also focus assist with a precision adjustment tool. Other shooting tools include zebra stripes and false colour. S-1073H monitor has built-in camera

Verdict Very helpfully, the monitor is able to display metadata from Canon’s Cinema EOS camera range and the ARRI camera systems. reproduction, the DP-V2411 uses a direct matrix backlight LED panel, which has been optimised to an IPS LCD to achieve a much wider colour gamut. Standard support includes ITU-R BT.2020 Ultra HD broadcast-standard colour gamut. ONE OF THE NEWEST HIGH-END monitors from Canon is the DP-V2411, a 24in professional reference display designed for 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) broadcast and film production workflow. It offers superb image quality with high luminance and wide colour gamut, extensive functionality and advanced interfaces. The DP-V2411 delivers a brightness of 600cd/m² when displaying full screen white, with the ability to increase luminance up to 1,000 cd/m² using the boost function. Canon’s original built-in backlight control system is able to correct brightness to ensure a uniform, stable, precise and high-quality image. Delivering accurate colour

SIZE

27 INCHES 250 CD/M 2 2560x1440

SIZE

7 INCHES 1920x1200

SIZE

24 INCHES 600 CD/M 2

PEAK BRIGHTNESS

PIXEL PEEPING

PEAK BRIGHTNESS

PIXEL PEEPING

OTHER

REC.709 CONVERSION

OTHER

SUPPORTS ACES

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