therealodwyer
New member
Hi folks, I'm new to the forum. I've been a viewer for years but I've only signed up today as I figured this was the best place to ask for advice!
I've done a search and all I find are threads specific to a certain monitor, so I started this to hopefully hone in the broadest advice, not just advice about a specific monitor.
Essentially what I am looking for is a 6 or 7 inch field monitor that I can place on an arm off the AF100. It doesn't need to have scopes or meters, it just needs to give me a larger picture to monitor from. I'm working with The Global Fund, an organisation that fights against Malaria, TB and AIDS/HIV, so the camera will be going to places from deepest darkest hottest Africa to India in the monsoon season, so the monitor has to be rugged enough. It would also be great if it's not a heavy bastard, and if it can be a simple setup plug and play sort of thing.
The camera's been taken on a few trips already to PNG and the Solomon Islands, and watching the footage I'm finding that the previous camera operator had quite a bit of trouble keeping some of the shots in focus, or he would have the focus on the background and not on the subject. I'm guessing this is because he came from a HDV background and wasn't used to working with depth of field and photographic lenses, and the focus assist can only do so much on the tiny LCD if you're not comfortable with shifting focus in the first place. So I'm trying to source a fairly cheap (as far as cheap goes when talking of monitors) monitor that the next camera op could easily shove on an arm off the camera, with a sun box on it so he/she can constantly have a larger picture and keep focus more effectively whilst on the go. The budget is at a maximum of 1000$, so really all I'm after is something that will give a sharp feed of the picture on a bigger screen, that's all.
With hope that some of you fine folk will help,
Best,
David
I've done a search and all I find are threads specific to a certain monitor, so I started this to hopefully hone in the broadest advice, not just advice about a specific monitor.
Essentially what I am looking for is a 6 or 7 inch field monitor that I can place on an arm off the AF100. It doesn't need to have scopes or meters, it just needs to give me a larger picture to monitor from. I'm working with The Global Fund, an organisation that fights against Malaria, TB and AIDS/HIV, so the camera will be going to places from deepest darkest hottest Africa to India in the monsoon season, so the monitor has to be rugged enough. It would also be great if it's not a heavy bastard, and if it can be a simple setup plug and play sort of thing.
The camera's been taken on a few trips already to PNG and the Solomon Islands, and watching the footage I'm finding that the previous camera operator had quite a bit of trouble keeping some of the shots in focus, or he would have the focus on the background and not on the subject. I'm guessing this is because he came from a HDV background and wasn't used to working with depth of field and photographic lenses, and the focus assist can only do so much on the tiny LCD if you're not comfortable with shifting focus in the first place. So I'm trying to source a fairly cheap (as far as cheap goes when talking of monitors) monitor that the next camera op could easily shove on an arm off the camera, with a sun box on it so he/she can constantly have a larger picture and keep focus more effectively whilst on the go. The budget is at a maximum of 1000$, so really all I'm after is something that will give a sharp feed of the picture on a bigger screen, that's all.
With hope that some of you fine folk will help,
Best,
David
