Re: Panny Field Monitors

I've had an LH80 now for a few weeks and overall, I like it a lot.

I bought it thinking I would use it mostly mounted on the camera, but find it's just too heavy and bulky to run mounted for all but the most controlled shooting situations. That's a bummer, and so my search continues for a small, lightweight HD monitor I can run on-board.

I like the red focus function but find I really don't use it because it's plenty sharp to check focus. I find the waveform function to be almost unusable. Off-axis viewing isn't great, and forget about using it outside. But it puts out a good picture and I quickly found I could trust it. I self-installed the HDSDI option card and it wasn't too hard.

I like that I can stick a small Dionic battery on it and it seems to run forever. For a compact HD monitor that travels well, I'm happy with it.

I haven't used it's bigger brother, the 900. I never really considered it because it's not 16X9 native, and it was a little larger than what I wanted as well as more $$ than I was willing to spend.

J Cummings
DP/Chicago
www.cameralogic.tv