Received mine before yesterday. Really fast shippement (5 days from purchase to Spain). First impresion is ok (I'm coming from a Ruige one). Plastic seems more solid than that one. Screen is glossy (Ruige not) but it compensate with more options and easy navigation (more knobs). For me is good upgrade. Sunshade not useful for me (I don't like to put velcro in equipement). Battery holder solid for me (NP-F960). I will try to post more when tested...

@tinyrobot he's not american. So he can be impressed without saying "amazing! Fucking awesome! Mind blowing!..." Yada yada. ;-) Thanks for the pic pc_bel, give a good idea of the size. Huge stuff.

@WhiteRabbit i don't own such a monitor but in my opinion you can desqueeze and go near center with 2x anamorphic by using settings like H-start range -186 H-size range +270 V-start range +200 V-size range -200

you reach an aspect-ratio of 3,49:1 (ok no 3,55:1) and you get an offset from ~60px to real centre ... but you dont have to crop the center in post ;-) so it doesn't matter

@astraban You got it ;-) @tinyrobot power adapter says 110-240v 50/60Hz so yes. Not used in daylight yet, but with a hood I don't think there is any problem, although that is relative. For me is ok.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev
your are right ...strange settings (wrong v-size and v-start)

.. as i mentioned i don't own this monitor (but i will order it soon), so its pure theoretical..

Maybe my understanding of the parameters is completely wrong!! so can someone practical confirm my theory?

normally i would prefer a desqueeze to 1920x540, so you can go for an cropped image of 1280x540 but it is impossible to reach with this h-size ranges (to do this i think you need h-start -320 | h-size +320 | v-start +130 | v-size -130). As you can see in the second picture the bulb isn't round, so my anamorphic adapter actually isn't 2x but for the example i use the Aspect Ratio normally would be (3.55:1)

maybe its is better to go for an slightly squeezed 1736x540 instead of 1736x488 so you y-stretch by 0.5 and get a sharper image.

I think it's better to take the horizontal and vertical stretched and cropped image for framing the shot and the 1:1 source for setting focus (because it's only horizontal stretched)

i wonder if the 1:1 picture would be from the 1920x1080 source or later from the streched picture..

Can someone who owns such a nice monitor please do a test for us 2x anamorphic lens user ?

Filming this picture from your computer-monitor and try to get this circle perfect round with no red bars left or right by altering the h-start | h-size | v-start | v-size parameters.

is this possible? which settings?if not possible, which was the best setting?

thx

I can confirm the findings of @SuperSet. It is impossible to tweak H V start and size to get even close to a perfect circle and/or get rid of the red bars. Something seems to be wrong with the way these settings works and that's why I was mistaken in my previous post: for example in order to squeeze down vertically the image you have to use positive values for V-size (and you are limited to +48), which is counter intuitive. It should be the other way around.

A feature I discovered is that you can simultaneously use the peaking function with the pixel to pixel (meaning 1 pixel on the screen = 1 pixel from the source) function : it helps with focusing.

Anyone tested 24p playback from the GH2 on this monitor? My Lilliput doesn't playback 24p. Recording is no problem, then it's outputting 50i. My Zacuto EVF handles it but my focus puller could really use higher res and watching the playback as well.

I'm also waiting for my BMCC to arrive, which only output progressive images. So I need an monitor that can handle the progressive output.

@SuperSet Looks good, thanks!

Also discovered that the hot shoe mount may not be the best place for the monitor as I've noticed that the front is already starting to lift away from the camera. So, it's hanging at an angle. It's likely not meant to handle the weight of this monitor so I'm gonna look for an articulating arm to hang from my rod supporting the shoulder pad.

@SuperSet @pwc @Vitaliy_Kiselev

thx

I'm seriously interested in this CL76HO-X monitor but I have no experience using false color. Is there any sort of calibration required to insure that what I see with the false color display accurately represents the exposure ranges of my un-hacked GH2? Do any of the GH2 hacks interfere with this, or any monitor's accuracy or false color reading?

False color just show brightness. It represents relative exposure (starting from minimum black values to full white), so no need to calibrate something.