SmallHD 1703 P3X or Flanders Scientific DM170? Which monitor would you buy?

[Humberto Dal Boit]

Anyone who has experience with these monitors, could you please give your opinion which one would you pick as your on set monitor? they are almost the same price. Thank you

 

[Nick Morrison]

We use Flanders monitors are they come calibrated, have amazing tools, and customer service is great.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Depends on what your priorities are. If it color accuracy, Flanders no question. I will say, in my opinion you should take a hard look at the 21” Flanders. Even though it is 8 bit technically, you will be happier on set with the larger image. It also has perfect color for on set.

 

[paulcurtis]

I'm in a similar boat. In both of those cases there's a 16.5" 10 bit panel used. Not only by SmallHD and FSI but also from tvlogic (new one), postium, konvision. All have the same specs save for SmallHD. I believe that they have made a different backlight in their P3X which they claim as being close to OLED.

However all the other specs are around 1400:1 ratio.

In all cases they are P3 colourspace and most offerings have very similar capabilities.

Hopefully i'll get a tvlogic to test in the next few weeks.

I think the tvlogic and postium are at the top of my list, they both have the buttons to the right meaning a better size for my set up.

The SmallHD is much more expensive than postium, tvlogic and konvision and i don't see a strong enough reason, but once i get to see and profile then i'll know better.

For me, i'm looking for 90% grading reference and 10% field.

There's a 24" 10 bit panel used by everyone - it's 1920x1200 and FSI et al have those specs. The sizes between 16.5 and 24 are 8+2 bit and 709 space. IMHO with all the myriad of P3 display devices (not just theatre but apple etc) i do feel that P3 is important or will become more so.

cheers
Paul

 

[Sergei Franklin]

Flanders give you free calibration anytime, you just pay for shipping.

 

[paulcurtis]

Flanders give you free calibration anytime, you just pay for shipping.

How do they deal with different parts of the screen, do they calibrate in different zones?

Otherwise it's fairly simple to calibrate yourself, Lightspace and a probe...

cheers
paul