Flanders Scientific Inc. (FSI) introduced some new monitors at NAB including a new 2000 cd/m² HDR monitor, covered in a separate article. (New Crop of 2000 cd/m² HDR Monitors Coming)
Also new is the XM55U, a UHD resolution OLED monitor with a 10-bit panel but 12-bit processing pipeline. Based on an LG panel of course, it supports multiple HDR formats, has about 750 cd/m² of peak luminance and 12G-SDI connectivity options. It can even support 3D LUTs for calibration and there is a real time HD output for 3D/HD-SDI monitoring as well.
At NAB, the company was showing this monitor with content that was just captured and graded the day before the show opened in their booth. It looked fantastic with great dark tone rendering and lots of ‘pop’ in the highlights. FSI said they have disabled the auto dimming so the monitor will hold the picture luminance even if it’s showing a bright scene. That may be an issue if left on for too long.
FSI’s UHD OLED monitor looked good
New for the DM line of monitors is the ScopeStream feature. This allows realtime waveform or vectorscope data to be sent from the monitor to a computer as long as they are on the same network.
FSI was also discussing its BoxIO 12G and BoxIO 12G Cal Q calibration and LUT boxes. Both support a 12G-SDI, Quad 3G-SDI or HDMI connectors for 4K signals. The 12G box can support two simultaneous 4K/UHD signals with real time 33 x 33 x 33 3D LUT control for each signal for advanced or on set color management workflows. The 12G Cal Q model includes internal test patterns and is compatible with CalMan or LightSapce calibration software. Here, the 3D LUTs are static, not dynamic. They should ship this summer. – CC
