Setting up SmallHD 703 Ultra Bright with Helium

[Russ Fill]

Wondering if anyone is using this combo. Newly released, SmallHD Ultra Bright 703 monitor with the 8k Helium camera on most recent release build??
I have tried and tried and can't seem to get any color setting, IPP2 or just about any out put by the Helium camera to my SmallHD to look acceptable on the monitor.
Anyone have any setups that get you a basic normal look that you can use the monitor for. Most of the time it looks way over exposed or very saturated and over exposed. That is with going through the output settings for the monitor... Graded or other wise.
When I play back I can go in and adjust the ISO and or FLUT and get a pretty good looking image. And when we take a look on the computer in RCX PRO it looks as expected but for some reason on the SmallHD it just blows the image to a way over exposed look. And yes we have looked at all the settings in the monitor and even loaded a bunch of LUT's to try to get a clean look out of the monitor. Nothing seems to bring it to what we see in the EVF2...
If anyone has a setup I would welcome it. Or maybe I have a rouge SmallHD that needs to be sent back.
I know that the play back output was not there yet but has that changed?
Thanks.

 

[Marcus Friedlander]

SmallHD monitors are known for being widely inaccurate.

I don't know enough specifics to say if it's your camera or the monitor, but if i had to guess I would say it's the monitor.

 

[Russ Fill]

I had the previous SmallHD Super bright DP7 before this new 703 model and it preformed well. Just wondering if there is something Im missing that makes this monitor sing when you get the out put setup properly. Which is what Im suspecting with all my new IPP2 setups and changes for output along with about 2 dozen new LUT's we loaded in the monitor to see what we might get in different settings.
Dam technology too many choices now.

 

[Fergus Cahill]

Weird that you are getting such bad results, I've used mine on my scarlet-w and an Alexa mini and have had very accurate results. Much better than I get off my 7" pro red monitor.

 

[Jørgen Storhaug]

Mine has been working great with any camera so far, except with Red Epic-weapon 8k. It was just off by alot, shooting IPP2. Very wierd.

 

[Anthony Berenato Jr]

Every SmallHD monitor I've had has been just a little overly contrasty and saturated, but I do love the construction / build quality and it's never too hard to bring things back down with the color settings.

I don't remember, but do the newer models have a blue channel only setting? If you bring up the bars on your camera, you can follow the typical monitor calibration steps to see if it changes things up.

http://www.glennchan.info/broadcast-monitors/monitor-calibration/monitor-calibration.htm

 

[Russ Fill]

Im starting to get it a little more dialed in now Ive had some time to play around with it.
Still kind of not trusting it but at least even my AC is saying its looking a lot closer to what were used to.
Played around with the camera monitor output with the IPP2 Graded and Ungraded etc... etc.... I kind of hope theres not an update to soon as Im starting to have to really work to keep up with where we are now on the Helium.