Kinemon 7” 1000Nit
The Kinemon 7 inch was first announced back at Nab this year and now, we’re finally
able to get our hands on them. Previously the only monitor that Kinefinity offered was
the 5 inch Kinemon, which worked well, especially when needing to keep the camera as small and
compact as possible, but it wasn’t the best panel in the world and its max brightness
was only 350nits. Which in bright daylight, did make it hard to see, even with the included
sun hood. This five inch kinemon is now discontinued, and Kinefinity have introduced this new 7”
high bright monitor, the KineEVF, and a new 5 inch monitor which will be ready in a month
or so hopefully.
This new 7 inch kinemon is not only larger, but is also brighter coming in at 1000nits
which means its much easier to see outside. The Display is a full HD display, with a resolution
of 1920x1200 and the picture looks great, very clear and detailed. Despite being larger
than the older Kinemon 5 inch, its actually slightly thinner, and still very light, weighing
only 300 grams. On the side of the monitor you’ll find the on and off switch, two buttons,
one for activating a histogram, and one for peaking. As well as a control wheel which
is used for controlling the brightness. Another small improvement that Kinefinity
have made over the previous monitors is a reduction in latency. Now we never found the
latency on pervious Kinemons to be that bad and we found the latency was comparable to
quite a few competing cameras like the URSA Mini pro for example. But for those who weren’t
too happy with the older Kinemon, this will be a welcome improvement and we’ve found
the Kinemon 7 to be very responsive indeed.
The Kinemon 7 is available on its own, or in a kit which includes this short articulating
arm, but also a nice big sunhood, which is a massive improvement over the sunhood that
came with the older 5 inch Kinemon. That once was plastic and could break quite easily if
knocked plus it just didn't shield as much light as the newer hood. This new Sunhood
is made out of fabric and seems quite durable, folds down nicely so it doesn’t take up
much space in your kit bag and attaches easily. What’s great to see is Kinefinity giving
users both a high bright screen, and a sunhood, as sometimes one or the other doesn’t quite
cut it in the brightest conditions. No matter how bright a screen gets, reflections are
always still an issue.
Of course, there are many fantastic third-party options for monitoring out there out there,
but the key strength of using Kinefinity’s own monitors, is that you only need one cable
for both power and a video signal, so the system is extremely streamlined. Each of the
cameras has two of Kinefinitys proprietary video ports on them, so you can run multiple
monitors, or a monitor and evf depending on how you’ve got your camera rigged. There
is no need to carry different types of batteries, worry if they’re charged or have to deal
with too many cables dangling from your camera, it makes for a nice streamlined shooting solution.
Overall, I think this is a fantastic addition to Kinefinitys line-up, as it allows you to
have a lightweight, compact but powerful high bright monitor in a really simple setup, whether
you rig the camera up, or run it just off of the side grip in a super compact setup.
But what do you think? Is this a monitor that you can see yourself using on your Kinefinity
camera? Let me know in the comments below and if you want to buy one just head over
to Proav.co.uk. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next one.