Today I received a Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI HD monitor to use with our Canon 5D mark II as a demo unit to test out on a music video shoot tomorrow. The HD monitor looks great so far… I have not yet read the manual but the Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI seems to be pretty easy to use even though it has a lot of robust features.
I’ll be writing a full writeup about our experience with it after we have a chance to use it on a shoot. For now, if you are looking to buy a Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI as an HD monitor for your 5d Mark II, you can from the link below (we get a small percentage of the sale).
Vu and I were so happy to be hired to shoot The Guild Season Three DVD cover!!! We were fortunate enough to have done a photo shoot of Felicia Day before and when we got the call to shoot the DVD for The Guild Season 3 we got very excited. (Thank you so much Kim [...]
A few weeks ago, Vu and I (The Bui Brothers) had a great time shooting photos of Justine Ezarik. You may know her as iJustine… if that is the case, please enjoy these photos of iJustine.
One of our goals was to give iJustine photos of herself that were unique and something out of her element. [...]
Makeup, styling and video (her first ever) by Tracie Cotta. Video shot entirely on iPhone 3GS.
Tracie set up this shoot with Micah, choosing “silent film” as our look for the shoot. We decided on Old Town Orange as the location… having an older look than most areas in Orange County. We also decided to add [...]
A few weeks ago Vu and I were given the pleasure of shooting Felicia Day to give her updated headshots and some awesome promo images. If you don’t know who Felicia Day is, here is a bit about her taken from her website:
Felicia is most widely known for her work in web video, and co-starred [...]
Here it is!!! The long awaited behind the scenes video from Veronica Belmont’s photo shoot with The Bui Brothers.
We could not have done this without the help of the following wonderful people:
Veronica Belmont – Awesome Girl
Schlomo Rabinowitz and House of Shields bar – Killer location
Carlie Renee – Makeup and Style
Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher – [...]
Vu and I had been waiting for just about a year to do photos for Sarah Atwood. I think the wait was well worth it, everything came out awesome.
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If you would like to see a few more proper headshots of Sarah take a look at Los Angeles headshots of Sarah Atwood on my blog. If [...]
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September 4th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
The 1:1 feature is so clutch for a sharp focus. I love it.
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September 5th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Yes! It came in very handy…
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September 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am
[...] thanks to Berndog we had a chance to use the Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI HD monitor to use with our Canon 5D mark II. If you are looking to get one, I get a small part of the sale if you buy it [...]
November 20th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
What do you use to focus the subject through the screen? Do you shoot video with your camera?
BTW, excellent work!
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Lan Bui reply on November 21st, 2009 4:20 pm:
I’m not sure I understand your question.
The camera I used is the Canon 5D mark II and I use Canon lenses. They must be manually focused when I am recording video.
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Lan Dalat reply on November 21st, 2009 4:50 pm:
Lan,
Thanks the quick response. With the monitor do you have to use a loupe or some types of visual magnification to pin point the focus on the screen. I have the 7D and the 3″ screen in the back is very hard for me to do a narrow DOF. To get that hair thin focus, I have to use a 4x loupe.
I just want to know how the pros are doing it.
Thanks.
LD
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Lan Bui reply on November 21st, 2009 4:52 pm:
Oh I understand now…
We use an external monitor, like the one above… but we have also used standard computer monitors with HDMI and standard TV’s with HDMI.
November 21st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
How do you do that in the field? outside of the studio?
BTW, Lan is a very good name for a photographer.
LD
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Lan Bui reply on November 21st, 2009 5:05 pm:
The Marshall HD monitors (like this one) can be used in the field with a 5D mark II with batteries. The monitors can use a variety of different batteries.
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November 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Based on my understanding, you would not need a loupe to aid focusing. Thank you for the feedback.
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November 29th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I’m really curious if this monitor can be daisy chained to another monitor for a director to view from
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Lan Bui reply on November 30th, 2009 12:28 pm:
I’m not sure…
One way to do this is to use a computer to connect via USB to the camera. This allows you to have a display on the camera and one on a computer! We did this the other day when we shot something that the actors needed to see what they were doing while we were shooting.
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December 30th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Hello ,
Thanks for the review ,how was the LCD70P ? will you recommend it for my 5D and EX1 ?
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Lan Bui reply on December 30th, 2009 10:27 am:
It was great!
I would highly recommend it.
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January 5th, 2010 at 2:25 am
Hi Lan, did you had any problem about the aspect ratio ? My monitor in to the canon 5d doesn’t fit full screen mode. I change all the setting, full screen and stuff.
Also when you are in “stand bye” or when I push the record botton, change format on the monitor. Any suggestion ? Thanks
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Victor reply on January 6th, 2010 10:11 am:
I am having the same problem as Kin Artos is. We have gone through all the settings on the monitor and we can’t get the full screen aspect ratio like you have demonstrated in your video. Also it switches when we hit record and it seems either squeezed or stretched. Is there something in the 5D’s menu i am overlooking?
thanks
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Lan Bui reply on January 15th, 2010 9:31 pm:
Hi Kin!
Yes, I did have to make some special setting changes on the monitor. Since the monitor was just given to us as a demo unit I don’t have it anymore to give you the settings.
Also, when you press record the aspect ratio does change because the 5D mark II changes its output aspect ratio. It is a fault of the camera, not the monitor… you will experience this with any monitor you use with the 5D mark II.
My preference is to set the monitor so that while recording the aspect ratio is correct and while not recording it is squeezed.
Victor, I hope this helps you too.
If you guys have any other questions please let me know.
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January 20th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Hi, would you remomend this monitor for the red one camera for 2nd monitor from the sdi output or for a film camera using the componet output?
Zezar
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Lan Bui reply on January 20th, 2010 8:41 pm:
Hi Zezar,
Since the monitor is great, I think I would recommend using it with any video camera. It is a feature rich monitor so go for it!
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