I'm in a situation in my studio photography that I could really use an HDMI monitor to view images and more importantly, preview images for fine focus. I'm shooting with a Nikon D7000 and I have a very very tight budget. Can anyone suggest an HDMI monitor that will be perfect for this type of photography?
I picked up a 7" Lilliput but the image quality was lacking.
So I sent it back and tried the Camax H056.
It not only has a higher resolution than the Camera LCD but also focus peaking.
tvman11 wrote:
I'm in a situation in my studio photography that I could really use an HDMI monitor to view images and more importantly, preview images for fine focus. I'm shooting with a Nikon D7000 and I have a very very tight budget. Can anyone suggest an HDMI monitor that will be perfect for this type of photography?
If it's for the studio and you will be hooking up your camera to the monitor with a HDMI cable then just get a small HD tv (15-20") for about $100-$150.
photomax wrote:
This may help get you started on your search; http://www.smallhd.com/
Looks nice; they just need to make an EN-EL15 battery plate... if they did I'd buy the 7" OLED for field use. A folding hood more suitable for field use (that can stay on the display for protection while in a bag) would be nice too, but there are reasonable options for this elsewhere.
I use a Swivi 7" monitor sometimes. The resolution is poor but it has a feature that highlights areas of greatest contrast (i.e. sharpness) so that it becomes pretty easy to see what is best focused even without having full resolution.
Certainly not a great solution for reviewing images.
DavidHoltJr idea is the real winner here. I have done that for a couple of years. I also use a cheap portable DVD player with a HDMI input port that I picked up at Walmart $80 for some field work. Anything that has HDMI inputs or as suggested getting an adapter for DVI_D is the cost effective way to go if all your looking for is a larger LCD viewer.
