All of the tests performed were done with two different SmallHD 1703 P3Xs and two different Atomos Sumo 19s. Third Note: Because of the nature of production monitors, which we’ll get into in a minute, you can find differences between makes and models. I've taken care to use the same exposure and development settings on all of the side-by-sides to best represent what we can see in our color suite. Second Note: I’ve tried to include as many photos as I can to illustrate what we’re seeing on the displays however, because the brightness ranges of these monitors exceeds the ability of most displays, contrast in the images is less than ideal. Since we’re not discussing audio at all here, I think we’re okay to be less pedantic in our word choice. a speaker, which is a monitor for sound). Normally I’d prefer the word display, since a display is a monitor for image (v.s. Note: I’m going to use the terms monitor and display interchangeably. With some really important caveats, of course, but incredibly, YES! Let’s dive into the nitty gritty about how the three hold up in a minute, but first we want to talk about the technical differences between production monitors and studio monitors. This way we could answer the question once and for all: can we grade on these monitors? And since we had just upgraded our SmallHD 1703 HDR to the 1703 P3X, we decided to take all three of the displays up to our color suite and see how their images hold up against that of the Sony BVM-X300.
On the other hand, we’ve seen an explosion of HDR capable televisions and HDR capable production monitors, which has led us to question: can we recommend any of these for grading in the studio?įor a project we’re working on we brought in an Atomos Sumo 19” monitor and a 7” Atomos Ninja Inferno. While there are new offerings that we’ve seen at the trade shows, and should be hitting the market before the end of this year, their price point is still extremely high - pushing the $40-50K USD price bracket. Since we wrote that article over a year ago, very little has changed in the availability and affordability of studio reference monitors for HDR.
In Part 2, we discussed HDR displays: what was available, and how can you emulate HDR on a darker SDR display.
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Our first major blog posts here on the Mystery Box Blog was a five-part series on HDR video - how it works, and how to work with it in production and through post.
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