new small HD DP4 shipping

[Larry Kelly]

Announcing the all new DP4 & DP4-EVF from SmallHD

This looks interesting but is it big enough for critical focusing?

[Jonathan Shaw]

Looking at the specs, with composite HD in, do you guys reckon that you could then pull a clean HDMI out?
What I'm getting at is that you could use this device on say a Canon XHA1 which doesn't have a HDMI out, use this as a monitor then use a Ninja to capture the uncompressed signal from the HDMI out on the small HD.

Does this make sense?

[Charles Papert]

I think you meant component HD in--composite refers to SD.

The HDMI output is noted as a pass-through or loop-through, which generally indicates independence from the signal processing of the monitor, so it's unlikely it would exhibit the image from the component inputs.

[Steve Nelson]

Originally Posted by Larry Kelly

Announcing the all new DP4 & DP4-EVF from SmallHD

This looks interesting but is it big enough for critical focusing?

It does share all the features of the DP6 including a peaking function although SmallHD has a video on their site that states that the DP6 would be better at critical focusing due to the higher resolution of the monitor. I would think the peaking would be very useful in this regard and probably good enough for most applications. I'd give them a call though if you have any doubts, they're a nice bunch of folks and local to me here in NC. I've been over to visit them a couple of times and it was always a worthwhile visit.