The backlight technology on the Shogun 7 is a highly complex achievement
By Jim Bask
The backlighting technology used on an LCD display panel makes a surprisingly big difference to its performance, and we’re not just talking about making things brighter.
The panel in question is part of Atomos’ new seven-inch monitor-recorder, a pre-release version of which was shown to an invited crowd at a pre-NAB event on Sunday evening. It’s intended to replace their existing high power devices, which have to date relied on a clever set of user controls to provide a sort of variable preview capability for HDR images in a portable, on-camera display, something that didn’t previously exist.
There was clearly no intention that it be a precision reference display, but it was a handy tool if only because it was capable of very high brightness and therefore maintained a good degree of visibility even in bright sunlight. They are regularly used simply as a daylight-viewable display, regardless the HDR features.
The fact that Atomos has been intending to release an improved model has been known for a while, but the details, and an eyeball assessment of the performance, had to wait until last night. The device retains the fundamentals of the company’s existing user interface approach but enjoys what looks like a fairly significant software overhaul with some new control and adjustment options. Click here for the full article.