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Glossy Vs Matte Laptop & HVX200 P2
My Mac supplier mailed me a Glossy Screen and not a matte screen. I have been trying to decide wether to return it or not. Over on the FCP forum I asked some questions and got some view points.
I do have to admit that the colors seem stronger — Playing back a QT video clip from a job last year, I first noticed that people of color (the main subject) skin tones are just gorgeous, but the compression mush from compressing a small dv camera video into a small QT video is much more obvious.. —
Which makes me wonder if glossy would work better as a field monitor for Panasonic HVX200-P2 which is to be its’ main job. Would I get a better focus monitor?
This MacBook Pro, Scopebox and our on order HVX200 have big a plans.
Anybody using glossy screen Macbook Pro 15″ with the HVX200 ????
Or will the spectral highlights, bright reflections, exhaust your eyes quickly.
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Matte Screen…
Glossy is even more inaccurate for color correction
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I remember participating in a thread in the fcp forum a while back on this. What I found out and quoted from the apple site is the matte screen starts off as a glossy but it gets a matte coating. To me this spells d-i-f-f-u-s-i-o-n.
Glossy will reflect more but flat screens control reflections pretty well. All the crt screens we’ve used for the past 1/2 century have been glossy and once they radiate a picture the reflections mostly disappear unless they are of a light source.
I don’t own a glossy or matte laptop myself (santa, are you listening?) so I have only hypothetical ramblings to offer and no real world experience.
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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The glossy looks cool in the store but I’ve found it to be fairly unuseful for all color critical applications not to mention you can see everything behind you. Maybe that’s a good thing though… Matte is the way to go.
Noah
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I agree. I had that decision to make when I bought mine and I went with Matte. Glossy is great if you are in a dark room watching a DVD. I like to write scripts at Carl’s Jr., edit in the park and have many people be able to see the screen at one time when presenting something. Matte is better for that.
-Lars
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I appreciated your post, because you may have answered a question I posted on the Cinematography forum: what do you use for your HD field monitor?
two questions for you: how did you decide on Scopebox? and did you consider the 17″?
re: your glossy vs. matte question: if the primary purpose is to check focus in the field, you have to balance ease of use (matte wins due to reduced reflection) and sharpness of image (glossy wins). Seems to me that for exteriors you’ll wind up using a hood of some kind anyway, in which case glossy would win.
I don’t own a MacBook, but I use a client’s about three times a year for location shoot-and-edits, and the glossy screen poses no difficulties at all (but I’m just using it for editing).
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“two questions for you: how did you decide on Scopebox? and did you consider the 17″? ”
Bob, When I posted a question (about a week ago) to confirm wether you can plug the HVX200 into a MacBook Pro and into a Firewire drive and record hours of 720p. Barry Green responded with an afirmitive yes, And I can do 1080p,,, Yea Haw… I asked Barry if he had any favorite location software and ScopeBox was one of the three he mentioned. ScopeBox location HD monitors and HD Scope and records to hard drive for $600…. Try to do that with dedicated hardware.. I want a good scope on location (never had one in Betacam SP world, just wanted one) I would love to have a good HD CRT on location. But Santa’s pockets are only so deep. I an hoping to take my old Sony SD monitor and plug it into the SD composite out of the HVX200. I hope it works “good enough” to get me started in HD world.
I would love to have the 17″.. Just about bought one, a scratch and dent return, for 2,200 at Micro Center… But it did not fit into my location backpack, (1.5″ tooooo long, I tried it) I have a backpack that holds my Nikon D40, 2 extra lens, Panasonic 3chip consumer DV camera, batteries tape, 2.5 external FW- HD, tape, blank CD’s /DVDs, misc.parts and my Mac Power Book 15″, now my MacBook Pro “. I have used this rig to document a Math Science camp for two years. It works great. You park the car, hang everything on your back, walk across campus .5 mile, chase elementary aged kids with camera for 6 hours, repeat journey back to car, go home collapse or visit bar and drink.
I hope to find a matching backpack/case for the HVX200 and Mac book Pro..
Yes I have noticed that the glossy screen looks sharper, and have thought about making a monitor hood for it. The office demos just look great on it.. But from experience, after many long hours of staring at monitors or viewfinders, I find my eyes starting to go weird do to the stress and long days. They act like a kalidascope with the edges of your vision freaking out. Not particular nice when your driving. So it is almost a health issue. My concern that the increased “spectral highlights” on the screen might make for more eye strain…..
Otherwise I would keep the glossy.. Better black / dark details, sharper edges, graphics just Pop…
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