Hi everyone,
I am thinking of getting an external monitor for my newly acquired 5D Mk2. However the main concern I have is about the camera not being powerful enough. Even without a monitor, I find RAW stops recording after 4 or so seconds if I even have focus peaking on, no matter how fast the card is (I'm using 1050x 64GB Komputerbay) simply because the camera's capability is the bottleneck.
So my question is twofold:
1.) Will I be able to record continuously with zero dropped frames at 24fps (23.976) in RAW while having an HDMI monitor plugged in? I'd also like to have Live-DIGIC peaking on, which doesn't take as much from global draw as regular focus peaking. Or can the 5D Mk 2 not handle that?
2.) If yes, which monitor should I get? I'm looking for something hotshoe mountable, 5" or 7", cheapest possible, preferably under $150. I've been looking at some Lilliputs but I don't know which one to get.
Please assume shooting 14-bit RAW 2.35:1, 23.976 fps at 1872x796, on a Komputerbay 64GB 1050x Card.
Thank you!
Already a topic on this here:
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=6181.0
Admin, please move this thread there.
Secondly, I think you should be ok, particularly with newer builds. I would recommend the Lilliput 663 as a good/cheap external monitor. You might consider picking up the one with built in peaking and stripes so that you don't have to have Global Draw turned on at all.
Quote from: Midphase on December 05, 2013, 06:55:20 PM
Already a topic on this here:
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=6181.0
Admin, please move this thread there.
hey thanks for the reply, but that thread didn't really address the whole bottlenecking possibility, no one really explicitly said that recording Raw would cause no issues while recording externally.
In any case, thank you anyway!
Quote from: Tai.Fighter on December 05, 2013, 07:54:20 PM
hey thanks for the reply, but that thread didn't really address the whole bottlenecking possibility, no one really explicitly said that recording Raw would cause no issues while recording externally.
In any case, thank you anyway!
Check out this thread, i wrote a post about what you want to on the 5D2
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9457.msg90719#msg90719
:)