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What? Atomos Shinobi 7 II How much? £510/$499 More info? atomos.com Nits a knockout Atomos turns up the brightness with a new seven-inch Shinobi that combines affordable daylight monitoring and camera control
f you love the extra space a five-inch monitor gives you, you’ll be in seventh heaven once you’ve used a seven-
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incher. Only thing is, they can be a bit too big and heavy for on-camera monitoring – especially for mirrorless set-ups. Enter the new Atomos Shinobi 7 II, which sets the benchmark for lightweight, fully featured monitors. Its seven-inch Full HD touchscreen provides considerably more viewing area, yet the monitor weighs just 401g⁄0.88lb without a battery and measures only 23mm⁄0.9in deep. That’s impressively svelte and makes it really usable attached to a camera. The headline specification is its brightness. Its HDR display reaches a mighty 2800 nits, making the Shinobi 7 II the brightest in the Atomos range and suited to outdoor shooting where lesser screens can disappear into reflections. It’s a substantial jump even over the 1500-nit five-inch Shinobi II and means images remain easy to assess in strong daylight. Once you’ve used the super-bright Shinobi 7 II on your mirrorless camera, you’ll be sold. There’s much more here than simply a bigger view. The familiar Atomos monitoring arsenal includes waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, histogram, zebras, focus peaking and false colour,
What it is: A slimline seven- inch HDR monitor with camera control and every monitoring tool you can think of Touchscreen: Edge-lit LED backlight, 2800-nit brightness, 1920x1080 pixels, more than ten stops of dynamic range I/O: 4K/30p HDMI 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack Camera control: Via USB-C Custom LUTs: Via SD card Weight: 401g/0.88lb
Tainted LUT The Atomos opens up a world of controls, from waveforms to Look-Up Tables
Our rating: 9 /10 At £510/$499, it’s not the cheapest seven-inch monitor around. But the combination of an exceptionally bright screen, comprehensive monitoring tools and direct camera control makes the Shinobi 7 II a compelling and great-value buy. For anyone who wants a bigger, more dependable view without turning a compact camera rig into a heavyweight production, it’s a winner. Ninja range, there’s no onboard video recording. There’s an SD card slot used for firmware updates and loading LUTs, which helps keep the Shinobi focused on monitoring, control and to fend off unnecessary heft. Power is flexible, with a Sony NP-F battery slot, USB-C PD or an optional DC battery eliminator. Top and bottom anti-rotation mounting points make rigging straightforward. It’s a joy to use and the view is immense! One of the biggest practical advances is camera control. Connect a compatible Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic or Sony camera via USB-C and settings including aperture, ISO, white-balance and shutter speed or angle can be adjusted on the touchscreen. Some models also provide touch-to-focus, making the large display a genuinely useful control surface. HDMI input and output allow the signal to be passed to another display, with monitoring up to 4K⁄30p. Unlike Atomos’
including both Atomos and Arri versions plus EL Zone. There are frame guides, safe areas, grid markers and a broad selection of anamorphic de-squeeze options too. Log, HLG and PQ signals are supported, allowing more than ten stops of dynamic range to be monitored in real time. Built-in 3D LUT support means you can preview a finished look while shooting, while on- device calibration using a compatible probe removes the need to connect the monitor to a computer.
Connect a compatible Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic or Sony camera via USB-C and settings can be adjusted
I know slim so well The thin Shinobi has an NP-F battery slot, HDMI, Ethernet and USB-C ports
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