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Emilian Dechev wrote:Anyone knows exactly what is the brightness of a Blackmagic Video Assist monitor, measured in Nits or cd/m² ?
Since I am mostly shooting exteriors, seeing the monitor is a major issue for my productions. Sun hoods help to some degree, but gemerally the BM Video Assist seems a bit dark to me.
I have looked all over Google looking for that information. It seems ridiculous for that to not be disclosed. Any other manufacturer has that info for their monitors.
In one forum, I happened to find, that the BM Video Assist has 350 cd/m². Well that seems a bit low.
The new "Aputure VS-5X" is now listed as 450 cd/m² and has all of the same functions at a lower price.
I don't know what the NITS rating is.
I do know that I've used it successfully in bright (and I mean Australian bright) outdoor conditions and it does pretty well.
If you think it's dark, then I don't think an extra 100 nits (if that's what it is) will do much.
You should be looking at monitors around the 1000 nit range to really see a differnce outdoors.
JB