Ahoj! This is Zdenka. Why do you need external monitor for filming? Do you
actually need one? What it can do for you? Is there any budget-friendly very
lightweight you know kind of like a cheaper monitor? Yes, there is one. I have
it right here. Can you show us lightweight filming kit good for travel?
Can he show us little bit more advanced filming kit? Yes I can
in today's video.
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Few months ago I was reading an article about external monitors and as I was
reading through, I was thinking do I actually need an external monitor? I
don't need one. I got this very fancy cameras, 1 and 2 with these very fancy
LCD screens, you know brand new stuff. That's enough. I really don't need one.
Well, after that I did a commercial shoot. I was not filming just for YouTube, I was
actually filming a commercial shoot. The clips were supposed to go to stock
agencies, I was hoping to get the most out of it. And the stock agencies are
super precise. They want very high quality. I was filming outdoors. When I
got home and I uploaded the clips to my computer, I realized that I've made quite a bit
of mistakes and I could not submit all the footage.
Sometimes the focus was not where it was supposed to be. Sometimes there were stuff
in a background which I simply missed. I didn't see it on the small LCD screen.
When you're thinking about external monitor, it feels like luxury to have
something like that for filming but there are very important reasons why
these external monitors are so extremely helpful when you are filming like
something I did. Let me run quickly through them and let
me show you this budget monitor I have here and also my filming set up, my
filming beast. The first and obvious reason is the fact that the screen is
simply bigger. You get a very precise preview of what you are filming. You
will see exactly what's in focus and what's not. You have better chance of
noticing if they're imperfections like just little objects which should not be
there. If you change shutter speed, you get different kinds of motion
effects. It is hard to guess on a camera screen if it looks good or not or if you
overdid it. You have better chance seeing it on a larger monitor. Most
camera LCDs are not very good when you're shooting outdoors on a sunny day.
Monitor with hood will fix that. Simply put, they are boxes full of tools.
They have focused peaking, false colors, zebra pattern, you can pull a brightness
histogram, you can monitor sound, safe area, center marker and more. Bottom line,
they are super helpful. So let me pull out this monitor and by the way this is
not a sponsored video but they did provide the product for review. This is
super light, very budget-friendly five and a half inch external monitor.
Desview mobile-p5. If you're looking for something light, you are just starting
out, need one for travel, something inexpensive, it might be for you. Once you
open the box, you will find all your goodies. Monitor itself....
hmm there is something about removing that piece of plastic.... I could do it over
and over again. There is also Sun Shade hood, tilt arm,
mini HDMI cable, micro HDMI cable, user manual and cleaning cloth for your
monitor. The monitor is compatible with F 970 and 5550
batteries. The monitor itself is 150 grams so it is super light. It is made
out of hard plastic and when you look at that manual, they suggest that the
working temperatures are zero to sixty degrees Celsius. But I was chatting with
them last night a little bit and they did confirm that they tested it in - 10 temperatures
and I was working fine. There is quarter-inch mount point at the
bottom and on the side, so you can mount it either way. On the top there is switch
button, custom buttons, one, two, three ,exit button and scroll Menu button. At the
bottom you have USB firmware upgrade port on the right side you have
three-and-a-half millimeters earphone port output. On the left is HDMI IN and DC
IN. There is no HDMI out output. So let's turn it on. Now this is not a touchscreen
but it has a lot of great stuff. Under menu you will find all kinds of
interesting options. Under auxiliary functions you can adjust settings such
as monochrome display, false color, focus peaking, peaking color, zebra pattern,
histogram, volume bar, camera mode. Under auxiliary line you can pull out
center mark, safe area, auxiliary line ratio, auxiliary line, color transparency.
Under picture settings you can change things such as aspect ratio, scan mode,
pixel to pixel, zoom, flip, horizontal flip, vertical, freeze and noise reduction.
Color settings will allow you to change settings for brightness, contrast ratio,
saturation, hue, sharpness, backlight color,
temperature, red green blue. Hot key settings will allow you to change the
hotkeys at the top here, so your custom functions and other settings such as
language transparency, OSD time, volume. You can reset your monitor or upgrade
your software or check battery info. The tilt arm included is really great too.
You can also attach microphone or light to it. At the beginning of the video I
promised you to show you my filming kit. There are three setups. The first one is
this one. You can have the monitor just sitting on the camera. You can also add
the microphone to it or light. For the second setup I have here, you can use it
with this very light gimbal like Moza air cross 2 which I really enjoy. The
gimbal is light and compact and this monitor keeps it light. I could travel
with this. Add microphone and you've got great filming kit and the third filming
kit is a little bit more serious and is gimbal Moza Air 2.
You'll find links to this monitor and other gear I was featuring in today's video
in the video description below. Well, hit the thumbs up if you liked
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