Blackmagic Video Assist - 1080p 10-bit monitor/recorder

Blackmagic just more or less murdered the Asian camera monitor market. While yes a Lilliput is still cheaper it is going to be much harder to second guess spending a little extra cash to buy from a well known company. Not to mention its also a recorder.

Sucks that it doesn't record 4k so the recording functionality may be a bit of a downer for some users.

We still don't know yet what software features the monitor will have. I found that a bit interesting since I myself would market the crap out of that. The other thing we don't know yet is the quality of the display. Is it 8bit and IPS? Typically I find if a company also doesn't market that like sliced bread 2.0 then chances are it may not be 8bit.
 
Seems great, they said brightness display but I think they need to write the NIT or cd/m2 measure, otherwise is a relative word
 
But hey, for 499 price I doubt to have more than 300NIT, but hey a 500€ fullhd 5" with an aggregated prores for 1080p60 is very nice, so depend on what you want to record or shoot, you can have a nice 5" affordable display, or an PIX, then a Shogun - Odyssey till the 6.7" uncompressed NEXT recorder for high end.
 
Very interesting. Could be an option to get a bit improvement until I can afford an O7Q.
Couldn't find any information about focus/exposure assists (peaking/waveforms etc). Only thing you see is the histogram. Wonder if there's more?
 
I been waiting for something like this. I was on the fence about a Ninja Star, but this fits all my needs. Even if its mini SDI,its better than the connections on the ninja star. This will be a killer in the recorder monitor game.
 
Yes, Black Magic just drop kicked Convergent Design and bunch of others with this offering at $499. The Odyssey 7 $1295 is 2.5x this price and isn't much different. Of course the 7q and 7q+ have all of the raw features I am not comparing it to those.

My clients always want their own monitor for interviews and such. Now I can give them that feature, plus give them their own copy of the footage too, for $499 with only one piece of kit.

Thomas Smet said:
Blackmagic just more or less murdered the Asian camera monitor market. While yes a Lilliput is still cheaper it is going to be much harder to second guess spending a little extra cash to buy from a well known company. Not to mention its also a recorder.

Sucks that it doesn't record 4k so the recording functionality may be a bit of a downer for some users.

We still don't know yet what software features the monitor will have. I found that a bit interesting since I myself would market the crap out of that. The other thing we don't know yet is the quality of the display. Is it 8bit and IPS? Typically I find if a company also doesn't market that like sliced bread 2.0 then chances are it may not be 8bit.
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One thing to note is that it is limited to 135 degree viewing angle. Not bad, but something to keep in mind.

Not sure if I missed it, or I'm just blind, but can this record 10bit ProRes at up to 60P?
 
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