Can’t decide one what Monitors to purchase for my Edit Suite

[Kevin Cannon]

Here’s the last post that includes a couple of those monitors:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/13914

KC

Prehistoric Digital
PhD Grading Suite

[Juan Salvo]

My opinion if you can spare 6k the Sony pvm oled is THE way to go. No contest. I’ve used BVM CRT monitors, FSi, dreamcolor, multiple plasmas and projection systems. But oled wins, needs a bit of calibration to get perfect 709 but it is outstanding. Love mine,

[Jack Kemp]

Hey mate, Thanks.

I will be running 3 monitors.

edit // Colour // scopes

But $6K is just out of my budget at the moment… I know I hate it, Ideally Id run a true 10-bit Monitor and have a proper Davinci Resolve desk but for what im doing I just cant afford it. *cries myself to sleep at night* haha

Basically I just need it for HD work flow. I wont be doing anything like film LUTS or 3D. I have access to a full online suite for Film or 3D anyway. So Ill just be doing HDSLR, EX’s, RED possibly Alexa. So I want something proper enough for grading but not to professional that it will cost me my first baby.

Naturally I understand I have to make sacrifices if I cant spend alot of money.

[Jack Kemp]

Hey thanks for you post mate.

Really appreciate the help.

Kind Regards,

[Stuart Blake jones]

I´ve used the Sony OLED monitors and was quite disappointed with them. The main problem is the angle of viewing. I don´t mind if there is a change of contrast or brightness when you go outside the angle of viewing but I found a significant green color shift when this would occur. Additionally the angle of viewing was much more limited than with other monitors. I would really recommend the new Orchid monitor from Marshall Electronics. This is a grade one monitor which supports a Minolta probe for automatic calibration. The monitor looks great and even has a quad view which will display scopes on screen. If you would like more information regarding this monitor (24″ & 32″ versions), have a look at https://www.vision2see.de. It´s also very economically priced at around EUR 5,500.00.

[Laco Gaal]

some say, it’s hard to get used to the “”greenish”” highlights compared to CRT’s, or plazmas.
Did you have this “issue”?

[Stuart Blake jones]

I just felt that the OLED colors were not true and the angle of viewing is of course very critical. Also calibration is a big concern. With the Orchid, you just plug in the probe and off you go.

[Dermot Shane]

Does the Marshall offer the full gamut of P3/DCi?

It does not mention that, only that it’s Ideal for “OB vans” Oh my… a far cry from a grade A gradeing mon as they present it

May just be sub optimal marketing tho, hopefuly so…. and what’s the cost of the Minolta meter?

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[Ola Haldor voll]

I had the very same experience. OLEDis just a bit early to release to the masses in my opinion. It’s a nice monitor, I mean, it comes I. A really rugged and nice chassis. But the picture wasn’t to my liking.

Either I’m vision impaired or the monitor lips the blacks long before the scopes do. No matter howi tried to adjust the monitor to look right, I lost the blacks too early. Or have we all been color correcting totally wrong?….

The viewing angle was horrible. I tested this simply by putting myself in the client chair. The whole image kept the saturation and luma really good. As it was a window to the busy city outside. But the hue shift was so extreme one wouldn’t know whether the image was graded or not. It was almost like a day for night look, just by shifting from my position (dead on) and slightly to the right.

I returned it with happiness, yet I was disappointed this technology is so hyped it made me believe I could get away with a cheaper monitor.

[Stuart Blake jones]

I totally agree! I saw exactly the same issues….