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Adjusting 5'' Touch Screen Monitor Brightness for precise reference

Rodrigo Prata

Rodrigo Prata

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Hello guys,

If I understood correctly, the camera will not output a color bar reference to the touch screen monitor (I may be wrong though)

So wat is the best way to know if your brightness is ok?

Today I was shooting some reference tests and adjusted the exposure based on falso color, when I turned falso color off, I saw a image very overexposed.

I just want to make sure I can rely on my visual reference alongside false color and histogram, so I wanted to know what you guys do about it.


Thanks!
 
I sometimes change the brightness of my monitors according to the conditions but do my best to avoid judging exposure by the brightness, preferring to use, as you do, histogram and exposure modes. Personally, I used to be a bit hung up on "matching" my monitor but I've overcome that to my betterment.

Rodrigo Prata said:
Hello guys,

If I understood correctly, the camera will not output a color bar reference to the touch screen monitor (I may be wrong though)

So wat is the best way to know if your brightness is ok?

Today I was shooting some reference tests and adjusted the exposure based on falso color, when I turned falso color off, I saw a image very overexposed.

I just want to make sure I can rely on my visual reference alongside false color and histogram, so I wanted to know what you guys do about it.


Thanks!
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i believe it said somewhere that you crank it all the way up and then turn down 3-4 steps. This should give you an accurate representation. Not sure if it was Jim/Jarred or the manual who/that said this though. Maybe someone can verify...
 
jochem bakker said:
i believe it said somewhere that you crank it all the way up and then turn down 3-4 steps. This should give you an accurate representation. Not sure if it was Jim/Jarred or the manual who/that said this though. Maybe someone can verify...
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Of course that will not account for differences in ambient levels, which will greatly influence the relative brightness of the display.
 
Yes, I believe that every light situation will call for a different LCD Brightness.

I really wanted to know if there where any way to be sure the brightness of your LCD is accurate, as i`m coming from the DSLR world where I've always had great success shooting based only on my visual reference. The 5D and 7D menu gives you a gray scale that I learned how to use as a very good reference when adjusting my LCD brightness... That said, i`ve shot on Film before, so I know how to use exposure tools, is just that I really wanted to be able to judge visually.

Speaking of visual tools, is there a IRE spot meter on the EPIC and Scarlet as there is on the RED One? I didn`t see it being mentioned on the manual, but I could have missed it.

Thanks
 
You can output color bars to the touch. I forget where it is at, but it does give you the option in menus. I tend to find that I have the brightness turned down all the way and it still seems to bright to me sometimes.
 
jochem bakker said:
i believe it said somewhere that you crank it all the way up and then turn down 3-4 steps. This should give you an accurate representation. Not sure if it was Jim/Jarred or the manual who/that said this though. Maybe someone can verify...
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This was for the original R1 LCDs, not the new touch screens. I doubt it's the same across both models.
 
since i upgraded to recent versions of firmware my monitor even at the lowest settings looks brighter then what the image looks like in redcine. I used to be able to get a good guess of what the image would look like, but now it seems to be drastically darker on the computer, maybe something is wrong.
 
I love the brightness. Great when outdoors. I simply use the histogram for real calculation of what I'm getting.
 
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