What should the settings be. I have it on the hdmi input setting.

I went and got another cable and now it works. Thanks VK

So ... now that I've a cable, what do I think? As a "first look" view?

Ho Lee Crap ... I can SEE what my GH3 is doing now!

Basic monitoring without special tools ... in a fairly dark room, doing manual focus ... wow. Even without Peaking or Pixels 1:1, just the basic screen is so sharp that I can easily get a visual check on exact focus.

Screen Guides ... these will be quite handy, as they are very easy to set, modify, and switch through.

Special "Fx" ... : (so far)

False Color: hadn't thought I'd really be interested in this that much, well ... it's so easy to switch into and get a very tight idea of where the signal falls. I will probably tweak this as I get used to it and test it further, but as of now, I'll be using this more than I'd expected.

Peaking: yes, Peaking is kinda odd, as something well out-of-focus yet with a large contrast delineation (say, the black cloth grill of a speaker visually next to a white wall) will have its own little red line ... but as noted in several tut's I've watched on using Peaking, watch the "bloom" of the red contrast outlines as you move focus ... and doing that, this works rather well.

I haven't even begun to fully test this out, which I will ... including adjusting the screen & the clipping/false-color settings to taste ... but the view of the image on this monitor is (out of the box) a nearly exact view of the image on the GH3 leetle monitor, color, light/dark, contrast et al. I've found that screen useful ... and this is vastly more so. After learning it and figuring out tweaks, this will be so important to getting the exposure & focus NAILED and that right fast.

Massive step up, and for the cost ... I do believe it's a great addition to the tool set. Especially as it will mean that my FF Nikon/Assorted Nikon-mount glass is now available for any use I want ... and I can assure focus!

Neil

Most of my video prodution has been controlled environment stuff ... either in the camera room of our studio or in a client home where I would shoot an interview and had time to set lighting and positions of things. So I haven't felt the justification between income directly from video and situational needs to rig out my cam. So a picture of say last nights practicing with the monitor would just be a GH3 with a 7" monitor mounted to the hot shoe.

I'm not thrilled with this mounting as even tightened down the stand wobbles on the hotshoe. It seems tight on the right side but not the left. And is too much weight to mount there if moving anyway. I knew when ordering this it would need mounting to something. As I willl be at NAB in Vegas in a week I'll look at possibilities there.

But I am rather well skilled in shop work and aluminum bar stock is cheap, it bends well and drills easily in my full size floor standing drill press. I will probably make a cage to get what I want at a price that I'm willing to pay. Interesting perspective ... i can more easily justify the cost of a couple tap and die sets to drill and tap the holes for things to mount as that is a hobby ... than justify paying more for a studio item that doesn't "pencil out" enough return on cost.

Especially I want a cage that has room on the right side to access the SD card slot with my largish hands, and space on the left for cord and battery access. And I'd like to clamp the cords to the cage straight out from their connection to the camera so those lightweight connectors don't get mangled. By the time I've seen a cage allow for all that it is several hundred dollars. I can build one for 4-6 shop hours and maybe a hundred or a bit more in parts. So a Saturday afternoon and maybe a couple evenings I go to my shop. Enjoy my hobby and make a custom cage. Works for me.

Neil

Anyone tested on GH4? Does 4k work on it? Will focus peaking be the same like on the GH4 or does the monitor has Its own feature?

how does that monitor work. Features such as focus peaking etc are installed within the camera. Does the monitor come with its on system and features? What does then happen with the cameras features? Or is it a 1to1 image?

@Alexauwa

The peaking produced by the monitor on its screen is quite usable after some practice and learning to set it for your camera and eyes. That said, the visual sharpness of the screen is enough that I am quite comfortable setting the lens focus just from the monitor in standard view in most situations.

I bought it primarily for the peaking but found the most usable feature is getting the false color set to give me an exact idea of the highlight exposure even past my hand metering. False color and zebras are very handy.

Love this on my GH3.

Neil

@Grimor I've been very pleased with my CL76HO-X. LOVE the false color ... and though at times peaking is nice to have, the screen is sharp enough I have normally just focused manually through a normal viewing mode. Post some about how you use it, on what, and how it's working ...

Neil