Portkeys PT5 II Camera Monitor 5 Inch Full Touchscreen DSLR Field Monitor FHD 4K Camera Monitor Wide Color Gamut New Peaking LUT Video Assist Luma RGB Waveform for DSLR

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The price of the Portkey PT6 instantly makes this a bargain considering the monitor’s quality and features you get. The overlays, such as peaking, zebras and false colour, are standard features that anyone shooting video will benefit from. The ability to monitor in Landscape or portrait is also incredibly handy. If you are planning on heading to this year’s NAB Show, these 3 new Portkeys monitors will make their debut in Las Vegas. Pricing is as follows:

Portkeys PT5 II Monitor, 5 Inch Professional DSLR On Camera

Customized peaking range: you can choose a certain peaking frame for regional peaking of your shot.

LH7P specifications – Source: Portkeys Portkeys BM7IIDS – bright 7″ wireless camera control monitor

Portkeys PT5 HDMI TouchScreen Monitor with Wide Color Gamut Portkeys PT5 HDMI TouchScreen Monitor with Wide Color Gamut

Aside from those two things, both of which are minor, the actual use and usability of the Portkeys PT6 is incredibly good. The monitor’s small size and weight make it convenient to transport and ultimately it doesn’t add too much weight and bulk to you camera or rig. Anamorphic De-squeeze: the LH7P monitor supports anamorphic lens correction in a ratio of 1.00x / 1.33x / 1.42x / 1.50x / 1.60x / 1.66x / 1.85x / 2.00x / 2.35x. Moreover, you can dial in a custom de-squeeze factor ranging between 0.25x and 4.00x. The Portkeys PT6 is an ultra-compact fully, featured monitor for your camera. It’s a pro-grade screen designed to get a decent representation of what you’re shooting rather than relying on the often flakey reproduced image that your on-camera screen will show.The PortKeys PT5is a lightweight – 0.28lbs/130grams – entry-level professional monitor for filmmakers who are looking for a compact on-camera monitor. Full HD Display What I found quite surprising for a monitor of this size and price is the amount of input and outputs available. This is a testament to the fact that this small monitor has been designed for those wanting to stream their footage rather than capture it for editing later. The small monitor is of a similar standard as the more expensive models. It’s just that the screen is smaller. As with the LH7P monitor, the BM7IIDS has the same custom freeze frame feature for match cuts, 3D LUT HDMI output, anamorphic lens calibration, customized peaking range, custom rectangular image crop, and brightness and RGB signal detection before and after loading 3D LUTs. Additionally, it has a false color and ARRI false color feature with customizable overexposure and underexposure IRE scales. BM7IIDS Monitor – Source: Portkeys The PortKeys PT5 features a lot of useful analyzing functions and tools. Below is a list of the built-in tools:

Portkeys PT5 review: A lightweight monitor that punches well Portkeys PT5 review: A lightweight monitor that punches well

There is an HDMI input and output, which can put out a 1920 x 1080p60 signal at 60Hz. Tools include 3D LUT support to 17grid, anamorphic squeeze with fine squeeze control, and UI from the camera. It also has all the bells and whistles you'd expect—Zebras, Luma Histograms, and false color. Split screen monitoring: you can use two different video sources and several different split-screen options on the monitor. Two screens can use the same 3D LUT file and you can split the screen: dual horizontal, dual vertical, horizontal and vertical, and you can even crop the second split screen from the same source to show more detail. Altogether, this is a really interesting and flexible feature. Vertical Shooting Stretch: upright video formats in 9:16 might not be everybody’s favorite framing format, but with the importance of social media, at times you just have to deal with it. The LH7P offers controllable stretching of images and real-time monitoring of the stretch effects.The LH5P II is equipped with a lot of software built-in, you are able to adjust picture color, temperature, layout and more to have it display a single just the way you want it, you can also flip the image on the horizontal or vertical axis making this a perfect companion for those for are shooting vertical video for social media. You can also set the display gamut to an option of your choice from bypass, Rec.709, P3-DCI, or P3-D65. You also have the option to upload your own LUT to the monitor so you can see exactly how your video is going to look before applying it in the editing studio, which is a massive time saver when on set. This is an HDMI-only display, but it will handle signals in full DCI 4K up to 24 fps, UHD up to 30 fps, and HD up to 60. The TFT-LCD panel itself is HD resolution. It advertises 10-bit colour depth, which, if we look more closely, turns out to mean 8-bit “plus FRC,” which means frame-rate control, a reference to a type of temporal dithering. Few monitors actually do better than this – even some high-end options use FRC to improve brightness precision, which is a respectable specification. What’s important is that it’s not 6-bit plus FRC. A 1000:1 contrast ratio and 500-nit brightness is claimed, although, in use, it looks like any decent cellphone display and is reasonably visible, at least in bright overcast conditions. The sunshade helps, especially when there are fingerprints from touchscreen operations. The other short film is PORTRAIT OF A GOD. Written, edited, and directed by Dylan Clarke, this is largely a once-location, one-person short film that keeps the budget low and the scares high by using amazing sound design and storytelling to challenge religion. The Portkeys PT5 HDMI touchscreen monitor is the most affordable monitor, which is a 5″ 4K30p monitor with 500nit bitghtness, new peaking, wide color gamut and 3D LUT. But despite its plastic construction, it still features a full range of monitoring tools that would certainly make your life on set a lot easier. Portkeys PT5 Hardware – Improved Compact Touchscreen The good news continues when we start to look at picture processing, test and measurement options. This featherweight monitor supports 3D LUTs loaded from USB devices, plus a wide range of overlays, including audio level metering, peaking, false colour, and, best of all, both luma and RGB parade waveforms. The waveforms appear to be updated at the native frame rate of the video signal, without lag, and with enough resolution to look crisp, at least in the small area of the screen they occupy. Hats off to the firmware people: nice work.