Greetings! I typically lurk as I’m more of a hobbyist/prosumer user than some…however I do spend a good bit of time reading through the large amounts of knowledge passed on here as well as work on shoots with my camera do gain experience
I am currently shopping for an external monitor/recorder and seem to be stuck between a couple of options.
i shoot with a fujifilm XT3 (typically on a gimbal but am building a handheld rig currently) in 4k30 all-i for most situations. Being that the form factor is fairly small, even rigged up I’m focusing mainly on 5” displays.
I know that Atomos Ninja V is wildly popular however the BMD video assist 12g HDR looks intriguing.
2500nit vs 1000nit display.
DCI P3 color space vs Rec. 709.
metal housing vs plastic housing
SDI inputs on the black magic without additional cost or adapter
2 internal SD slots on the BMD and external SSD via USB-C.
same Sony batteries on both however BMD uses 2.
it seems as the ninja allows for fairly in depth color calibration and potentially more accurate colors in general. The ninja has anamorphic de squeeze, focus peaking, and zebra which are not listed on the BMD. The BMD shows only histogram, vectorscope, waveform, and rgb parade
the ninja has a mic input and the BMD does not. I’m curious on the BMD side if this will cause more time in post on timelines if there’s an audio delay due to camera latency
overall it looks like the ninja V may be a bit cheaper initially if purchasing one of the bundles that includes a 1TB drive and 2 L batteries with charger
I’m entirely novice on this front and am hoping some could provide some feedback if they have experience with both, or just simple insight if I’ve seemed to overlook something glaring. or even other suggestions
I just want a larger monitor to view while filming and I’d like to have a workaround for the internal recording limit.
my PC hasn’t had any hiccups in Resolve with H265 files so I’m hoping that if I record to a different format such as ProRes I won’t run into additional issues