Re: PMW F3 Kipro Mini

Just to be clear...
When using an outboard viewfinder like the Cineroid or the Zacuto EVF, and recording to the KiPro Mini cleanly, there is no way to see the viewfinder display information..It's one of those logistical gotcha's (like when I blew out my father's hifi speakers by hooking up the input and output of the recorder and blasted them with feedback by mistake).

When dual link is on, it turns off the HDMI port on the camera. A clean 4:2:2 signal is sent from port A of the dual link bnc connector on the camera and the outboard viewfinder needs to be connected to the HDMI out port of the Mini.
You'll get a clean feed to the outboard viewfinder, but won't have a record light in the display.

If you turn off the dual link, and feed the Mini from the sdi port on the camera, you need to make sure the display on/off in the menu is off. Unfortunately, that also turns off the display to the HDMI port also, so you have no camera information in the outboard viewfinder (fed from the camera's HDMI port) in that case either.

Not a big deal, because both EVF and Cineroid viewfinders provide zebra and focus helpers...You just don't have the other camera info; most importantly the record light.

When Zacuto comes out with their sdi version of the EVF, you'll be able to feed that vf from the sdi and the Mini from the dual link...
The camera is able to separate display on/off to the standard video out, but that doesn't help in this case.
-m