Thanks to everybody contributing to this thread.
After receiving the honest response from the monitor manufacturer about the SUMO 19 being designed for production and not for HDR mastering, I have decided to follow the manufacture words and use the monitor to the maximum for the purpose it has been made. It’s a great production monitor. However, nobody is going to stop using it in post just as nobody can be stopped to use a computer monitor calibrated in sRGB to delivery content in other color spaces besides the web, computer or mobil devices.
As I have said before on this thread, I own the SUMO 19 monitor/recorder. On occasions I have been using two of them on-set. I use it with satisfaction as a recorder for dailies parallel to the in-camera raw format or codec recording. As a DIT, no more static transcoding on-set. I do it live if the production allows it.
I can say that apart from the monitor having an extreme reflective screen, it does a terrific job on-set. Furthermore, when switching the monitor to HDR, it has been helpful on-set to some DoPs and to myself to see and know that they can go 2.5 + stop above Rec.709 in scenes with higher contrast ratios. The fact that the monitor doesn’t qualify for HDR mastering doesn’t mean it’s not an excellent monitor when used for the right purpose it has been made.
Furthermore, using the monitor for the wrong purpose is not only going to give us a faulty result but also would give the manufacturer an undeserved poor reputation.
Regarding the monitor being 10-bit panel: No. it’s not a true 10-bit panel, and this makes a difference in HDR mastering beside the other advantages the monitor offers. It’s a 10-bit (8+2 FRC): Frame Rate Control.
There is no need to wonder why a monitor manufacturer like Flanders Scientific, one of the most used monitor on-set and in post for Rec.709 and DCI-P3 deliveries, has not come yet with a true 10-bit monitor at 1000 nit. The most used 1000 nit monitor for HDR mastering today in post is the Sony BVM-X300 at a list price of $US40,000. Go figure.
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