Panasonic BTLH80 monitor and the 7D

I found an ebay auction from monoprice, $135 including shipping for the HD Fury 2, so ... I'll let you know when it arrives. :thumbsup:
 
Barry_Green said:
Can you confirm that the HD Fury allows you to use an HDMI camera such as the 7D/GH1/HMC40 with an HD component monitor such as the BT-LH80?

It sounds like it should work, but before ordering I'd love to get a definitive confirmation.
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Barry, sorry that I didn't answer this sooner; I didn't read this until just now. But you'll be pleased to know that the HDFury 2 does indeed work beautifully with the 7D, and it does not need an external power supply. I have one, which I bought for my 5D.

The original HDFury was confirmed to work by a regular user at cinema5D, but I don't have it, so I can't offer my confirmation.
 
Barry_Green said:
Well, hot diggity! $139 beats $500, which is what I would have gotten (an HDMI->HD-SDI converter)...
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Yep. As I was in the process of replying to your post a little while ago, I took my HDFury 2 with component outputs attached, and I connected it to my 7D and my 67" DLP HDTV. Beautiful results!
 
Okay, a follow-up on the HD Fury II: yes, it works with the BT-LH80, and the Canon 7D even supplies power to power it.

But not enough.

I had a weird experience with it where the brightness on the signal would drop by about 10%, making nothing hit the top of my waveform monitor. I tried a few different things, and then I just decided to try plugging in the HD Fury's power supply ($1.98 at monoprice.com). The power supply solved everything.

So -- while it's technically possible to sort of use the HD Fury II powered by the 7D/HDMI cable, I recommend against it. Just get the USB power supply and use it.
 
I was thinking about buying a new monitor for my 7D , will this HDfury work on my
Marshall V-R70P-HDSDI ? Connecting it trough the tally input maybe ? ?
 
No, the HD Fury is an HDMI->component converter.

If you have an HD-SDI input, you'd want an HDMI->HDSDI converter, there are several of those on the market, usually around $500.
 
Barry_Green said:
Okay, a follow-up on the HD Fury II: yes, it works with the BT-LH80, and the Canon 7D even supplies power to power it.

But not enough.

I had a weird experience with it where the brightness on the signal would drop by about 10%, making nothing hit the top of my waveform monitor. I tried a few different things, and then I just decided to try plugging in the HD Fury's power supply ($1.98 at monoprice.com). The power supply solved everything.

So -- while it's technically possible to sort of use the HD Fury II powered by the 7D/HDMI cable, I recommend against it. Just get the USB power supply and use it.
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So, Barry, maybe a USB battery pack for Iphone, etc. could work to power on this converter, don't you think?
 
If it outputs 5V DC (I think it's 5V DC) to the right-sized connector, sure. The power supply I have includes a USB-to-Fury connector, so a battery pack that has a USB port on it should definitely work, as long as it can output 5V.
 
strange that you see the levels for me looked correct with clipping happening at 100 percent. i wonder why it worked for me and not you - were you using a fully charged battery in the 7d
 
At the beginning, yes -- but then as time went on, the levels dropped by a big chunk. So maybe the battery can sustain it when it's freshly charged, but after a while it just wasn't able to.
 
ok, HDfury recieved. is it just me, or does it totally suck that the back lcd shuts off when you plug in an hdmi cable? is there a setting to turn that off? i hope so, as i can't find it.

also, is there a way to get just the picture up on the monitor, so it's no 4:3? if not....that also sucks big time.

if that's the case, whats the point of even monitoring with this thing!?
 
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