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Can I trust the minimonitor?

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Hi! Can I trust the minimonitor of the Red One for exposing? What about color spaces? Thanks!
 
In my opinion: not really. Not because the monitor is bad but because of the highly different circumstances you will be viewing the monitor. If you go by the monitor you will overexpose when you are outside on a sunny day and underexpose when you are in a dark environment. Better use the exposure tools in the camera such as the histogram and zebra.
 
How about covering the monitor and your face\head with a burlap, a kefiah or a sheet when checking exposure in sunny outdoors? I know it's very poor-man style, but I've done it more than once and it works...
 
Emiliano Ranzani said:
How about covering the monitor and your face\head with a burlap, a kefiah or a sheet when checking exposure in sunny outdoors? I know it's very poor-man style, but I've done it more than once and it works...
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Learn to use the "false-color" mode. You can also activate it during recording for quick checking of the exposure. One you get to know false color, you will never want anything else for exposure setting, it is in my opinion the only way to correctly expose with the RED. Get use to it with the color space set to RAW and remember everything colored Red (dark orange actually) is burned out and lost, light orange is ok and can be preserved in post. About color space, I find that RED color rendering is what you see with your naked eye, is what you can get from the RAW file in color grading (just watch out for the evil IR contamination and get a hot mirror ND for everything above ND 6).
 
false color is the way to go.......
 
Emiliano Ranzani said:
How about covering the monitor and your face\head with a burlap, a kefiah or a sheet when checking exposure in sunny outdoors? I know it's very poor-man style, but I've done it more than once and it works...
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That's really a economic style. I want to try it. Thanks.
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How does one know when the RED LCD is set to default brightness? I become quite comfortable with false color myself but I recommend there being a -5 -3 -1 0 +1 +3 +5 type of indication on the display or menu. I have seen cases (in a pinch) where the LCD was gained up and the DP exposing off what he was seeing...when I was asked to reset the brightness settings I just took a guess in the middle, but what is that?
 
If you turn on the gray scale option in the EVF menu(I think) that will help you judge the current brightness of the LCD and allow you to adjust it, although some sort of hood would ideally be used as well.
 
I would say no, it's not accurate mainly because of light pollution (if no cover) and that you can change the backlight brightness. I would suggest learning the False Color or learing how to read an RGB histogram. I use the histogram a lot on the LCD to get a proper exposure if I'm ever question what I see.
 
dont trust in monitor
i recently put 7 cameras together and
they don't look exact the same
neither the viewfinder
 
It's important also to adjust the brightness of the monitor. At Reducation they told us to push the brightness all the way up then hit the button 5 times to push down the brightness , in this way the monitor is calibrated. Hoodman makes very good and cheap monitors hood for red. http://www.hoodmanusa.com/prodinfo.asp?number=H-R5.6
 
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