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such as the Calibrite Display Plus HL. All that’s necessary now is to connect the device to Atomos via USB-C and follow the on-screen instructions. It’s a quick and easy way to ensure your external monitor shows accurate colours and you can even save a calibration report to your SD card. The £354/$349 Shinobi II is a slim, five-inch, 1500-nit HDR monitor with a major update: Touch to Focus for selected cameras, along with Arri False Colour and EL Zone colourised exposure modes. When it was launched in July, it could control the most recent cameras from Canon, Panasonic and Sony over USB-C, plus Z Cam E2 models through a serial cable. The new firmware adds camera control support for Fujifilm and Nikon. The ability to set the camera’s focus point directly via the touchscreen interface has also been added. Cameras compatible with the Touch to Focus feature are the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Panasonic S5 II or S5 II X, Sony A7 IV, A7S III or ZV-E10 II, and Fujifilm GFX100 II or X-S20.
A simple way to accurately calibrate the new Atomos Shinobi II monitor is one of its biggest benefits that many potential buyers might have overlooked. Though it has always been possible to calibrate for accurate colours on Atomos
monitors, this involved buying a relatively rare USB-to-LANC cable, plugging the probe into a computer and using Atomos software to generate a test pattern. The Shinobi II now has built-in test patterns for certain calibration devices,
atomos.com calibrite.com
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