Do they make camera monitors that can do this?

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ironpony

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Sometimes I am forced to shoot certain shots myself cause the DP absolutely cannot make it, which can be understandable on these micro-budgets. I have trouble focus pulling on the monitor, when it comes to motion blur. I cannot tell the difference on whether or something is out of focus, or if it's the motion blur and it is actually in focus. This is of course shots where the camera is moving around significantly. Do they make monitors that work like some HDTVs and there is no motion blur, and it's all clear? Even though we use HD monitors to begin with, unlike a big HDTV, there is still the blur. Not having that would help a lot I think in focus pulling. If so which monitors are they? Thanks.
 
Are you talking about a higher refresh rate? I don't know of any, but I'm not that familiar with all of the monitors out there. That would be a pretty cool feature though.
 
The blur comes from your shutter angle, not your monitor.
Have a look at the SmallHD DP6 monitor, it is amaing for focus and saved me so many times with its 1:1 zoom option and it's amazing focus assist (the best I've seen on all monitors).
This is your best bet for critical focus.

Having a pro monitor with a simulated high frame rate won't help you as you may have shots that seem sharp on your monitor that actually Are completely blurry. The 120hz system sharpens the image even the soft ones. Go with a SmallHD DP6 and you'll be a happy shooter.
 
I don't know if it's called a higher refresh rate, but it's commonly on bigger HDTVs, rather than computer monitors and smaller screens. It just makes 24fps look like 60fps and everything is sharp while moving fast. But this could be worse you say for pulling focus? I am going to check out the DP6 now. Thanks!
 
The blur comes from your shutter angle, not your monitor.
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it all depends, are you referring to actual motion blur or simply digital artifacting.

i think what youre referring to (from your reference to HDTVs) is simply digital artifacting. you started seeing it more widespread when broadcast went from analog to digital.
 
artifacting has nothing to do with exposure. it has to do with compression.
at least the artifacting that im talking about, where the codec has to deal with compressing everything on the frame rather than just an arm or a head turn
 
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motion blur is in the picture, so there is no way to remove it if it exist.
to remove motion blur, you have to shoot with a very fast shutter, to freeze the picture as much as possible.
but then you would get that stroboscopic effect. To counteract this, you can shoot with higher frame rate.
LCD screen usually has its own motion blur, by the fact that each picture leaves a trace after display.
Unfortunately, usually fast LCD are producing the worst picture, while good lcd are producing the slowest picture.
So with fast frame rates you could hit the limit of what an lcd moniter can display.
in you case the good way to get focus in fast moving picture would be to get a framestore device that can display one image out of every 6 for example,
so you can check if focus is ok.
There are thousans movies shot every year that do not require special harware, so i do not really see the case that would require such feature.
 
Okay but some TVs display it without motion blur. I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, on blue ray through two HDTVs. One showed the motion blur, and one did not. So it's how it is displayed too, isn't?
 
Okay but some TVs display it without motion blur. I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, on blue ray through two HDTVs. One showed the motion blur, and one did not. So it's how it is displayed too, isn't?
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i think what youre referring to is that motionflo, clearmotion, etc, bullcrap artificial high refresh thing that hdtv manufacturers are doing these days that makes beautiful true film product look like 60i video. that crap gives me a headache
 
Yeah I don't like it either. But I thought it might help for focus pulling, since it's easier to see if something is out of focus when moving fast, during action scenes.
 
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