Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional– 7″ 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen Recording Monitor Evaluation
The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional is a 7″ 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen Recording Monitor with 3G-SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs and a excessive brightness display screen.
The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional appears to be a budget-friendly, daylight viewable on-camera resolution that might go well with lots of people’s wants.
Key options
- Show Display: 7″ Contact Panel
- Display Decision: 1920*1080
- Brightness: 2200cd/m2
- Colour Gamut: P3
- HDMI Enter&Output
- SDI Enter&Output
- SDI Enter convert to HDMI output
- Video recording & playback
- Customized 3D-LUTs & 3D LUT loading & adjustment
- 3D-LUT Output
- CNC Metallic Body
- Luma Waveform
- RGB Parade
- Vectorscope
- Histogram
- Facet ratio markers
- Protected Space
- Heart Marker
- Focus Peaking
- Picture Zoom
- Zebra Sample
- False Colour
- Monochrome
- Gamma setting
- HDR monitoring
- Colour temperature setting
Selecting a monitor, particularly a budget-priced one is commonly a tough proposition. There are such a lot of choices now obtainable at related worth factors, with very related characteristic units. What lots of people maybe don’t know is that there’s little or no distinction with the precise panel getting used on most of those displays. There may be solely a handful of producers on this planet who make panels of this measurement and all the firms who’re promoting displays like this must supply them from only some suppliers. Which means the precise high quality of the panels getting used isn’t essentially going to be that completely different, particularly on budget-priced displays.
My recommendation could be that when selecting a finances monitor you must look extra carefully on the working system, construct high quality, after-sales service, and normal usability. Don’t get me flawed, picture high quality can also be necessary, however with finances displays, loads of them are going to look pretty related.
What actually separates the finances displays is the usability and working system. A number of them go away so much to be desired and that’s what typically separates a very good monitor from a nasty one.
I strategy each overview the identical no matter how a lot the product prices or who makes it. Each product overview I do will get the identical thorough unbiased evaluation.
What do you get?
Shimbol offers you the next:
- Monitor
- Onerous carry Case
- HDMI cable
- Scorching Shoe mount
- SDI cable
- Tempered display screen protector
- Dusting material
- SD card
- Person guide
Its good to see a monitor include a small customized onerous case, that is one thing you don’t typically come throughout.
Display
The display screen is a 7″ 1920 x 1080 (8+2 FRC) IPS LCD panel. In response to Shimbol it has 2200 cd/m2 of brightness, a distinction ratio of 1800:1, and it covers the DCI-P3 shade gamut.
You may change the CCT of the display screen in addition to different parameters such because the backlight, distinction, sharpness, hue, and brightness. Extra on the display screen additional down within the overview.
Design
The monitor is properly designed and all the pieces is effectively laid out.
On the again of the Reminiscence 7 Professional you can find the SDI In and Out ports (that are recessed), and the built-in twin Sony NP battery plates.
On the highest, you can find the ability on/off button and three customizable Perform buttons.
On the left facet of the monitor you can find a full sized HDMI In and Out, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a DC energy enter.
On the underside, there’s the USB-C port.
On the suitable hand facet of the monitor is the place the SD card goes.
Construct High quality
The construct high quality of the Reminiscence 7 Professional is excellent, and this stunned me given its low worth level. Often these extra inexpensive displays characteristic very fundamental construct high quality and so they make the most of loads of onerous plastic. The shell of the monitor is made out of CNC aluminum alloy.
The Reminiscence 7 Professional construct high quality was each bit pretty much as good as you can find on any Atomos monitor.
Thee are only some bodily buttons on the monitor and they’re good and tactile and in addition recessed to allow them to’t be unintentionally knocked.
Like nearly each inexpensive monitor, the HDMI ports usually are not countersunk which could be harmful as your HDMI cables will face straight out and will likely be topic to getting knocked or presumably damaged. I do know producers place the HDMI ports on the left-hand facet as a result of they’re primarily concentrating on customers of smaller sized mirrorless hybrids, however I want they’d not less than present some form of safety or embody a proper angle adapter so that you don’t have the cables sticking straight out the facet of the monitor.
The SDI ports are situated on the again proper hand facet of the monitor as I discussed earlier, and they’re additionally recessed which is sweet. I’d advocate utilizing proper angles SDI cables with this monitor.
Measurement & Weight
The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional monitor weighs 455 g / 1.00 lb. As a comparability, the Atomos Shinobi 7″ 4K HDMI/SDI Monitor weighs in at 577 g / 1.3 lb.
The monitor isn’t overly gentle however it’s consistent with what most different 7″ inexpensive displays weigh. For my part, a 7″ monitor is simply too massive for a hybrid mirrorless or small sized digital cinema digital camera. A 7″ monitor is significantly better suited to a mid-sized or bigger digital cinema digital camera. I personally suppose 5″ might be the best measurement for smaller-sized cameras.
So how does the load examine to another 7″ displays with SDI and HDMI which might be available on the market? Nicely, beneath you possibly can see. Please notice that every one of those displays have completely different brightness and have units.
| WEIGHT | |
| Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional | 1 lb / 455 g |
| Atomos Shinobi 7″ 4K HDMI/SDI Monitor | 1.3 lb / 577 g |
| Transvideo Stargate 7″ 3G/HD-SDI LCD Monitor Recorder | 1.7 lb / 771 g |
| SmallHD 702 Contact 7″ On-Digicam Monitor | 1.18 lb / 536 g |
| SmallHD ULTRA 7 | 2.0 lb / 900 g |
| SmallHD 703 UltraBright On-Digicam Monitor | 1.7 lb / 748 g |
| SmallHD INDIE 7 | 1.62 oz / 737 g |
| Blackmagic Design Video Help 7″ 12G-SDI | 1.81 lb / 825 g |
| Blackmagic Design Video Help 3G-SDI/HDMI 7″ | 1.82 lb / 825 g |
| PORTKEYS BM7 II DS 7″ Excessive-Vibrant Monitor | 1.0 lb / 460 g |
| FeelWorld FW703 7″ | 0.75 lb / 350 g |
| FeelWorld LUT7S 7″ | 1.01 lb / 460 g |
| FeelWorld 7″ 4K Extremely-Vibrant Monitor | 0.87 lb / 395 g |
| FeelWorld LUT7S PRO 7″ | 0.99 lb / 450 g |
| Lilliput FS7 7″ | 0.95 lb / 435 g |
| Lilliput Q7-12G 7″ HD 12G-SDI/HDMI 2.0 Extremely-Vibrant | 1.7 lb / 785 g |
| Lilliput Q7 Professional 7″ | 0.89 lb / 405 g |
| ANDYCINE C7S 7″ | 1.01 lb / 460 g |
| FeelWorld SH7 7″ On-Digicam Monitor | 0.9 lb / 420 g |
| TVLogic F-7HS 7″ | 1.8 lb / 800 g |
| Elvid FieldVision 7″ HDR IPS LCD On-Digicam Monitor | 0.9 lb / 408 g |
Mounting Factors
Shimbol has put three 1/4 20″ mounting factors on the underside, and one on the the right-hand facet of the monitor, together with mounting holes. There aren’t any mounting factors on the highest or the left-hand facet.
The included swivel mount within reason good. It tightens down properly and it gives a pleasant quantity of stress. It additionally has a small finding pin so the monitor received’t twist.
Boot Up Time
The monitor takes round 15 seconds in addition up and show a picture when you press the on button. That is moderately gradual.
SDI & HDMI Inputs/Outputs
As I discussed earlier the Reminiscence 7 Professional has a 3G-SDI In and a 3G-SDI Out. The SDI helps loop out if you have to use it.
The monitor additionally has an HDMI Sort A Enter and an HDMI Sort A Output.
As I discussed earlier, the enter and outputs are situated on the left-hand facet of the monitor, which is handy when utilizing most mirrorless hybrids. The HDMI In and Out usually are not countersunk so there is no such thing as a safety.
Within the menu for the Reminiscence 7 Professional you possibly can select between having the SDI or HDMI energetic.
Working System
The working system of the monitor makes use of touchscreen performance. There is no such thing as a scrolling wheel or different controls on the monitor aside from three operate buttons. I’d have most well-liked to have seen a system that lets you not solely use the monitor by way of touchscreen operation, but in addition by way of some buttons. I say this as a result of if you’re utilizing the monitor in chilly circumstances you might have gloves on, and the touchscreen will likely be tough to make use of.
The working system has been moderately effectively designed and it pretty intuitive and straightforward to make use of. Whereas it isn’t going to rival that of a SmallHD, within the inexpensive monitor house it is likely one of the higher ones I’ve come throughout. Might it’s higher? Sure, however I feel most individuals will likely be moderately pleased with it.
On the underside of the display screen you’re going to get a pleasant clear and concise set of instruments that you would be able to shortly entry.
To convey up the the instruments related to the icons you merely contact on one. I’d have additionally most well-liked to have seen a system the place the colour of the icon you could have activated is brighter or darker in order that you already know it has been activated. You can also’t shortly flip a monitoring instrument off with out having to do not less than two steps, until you assign it to one of many three operate buttons.
What you possibly can regulate is pretty restricted. For scopes you possibly can change the opacity, however there is no such thing as a choice to make them greater or smaller or to have the ability to transfer them to completely different areas on the display screen.
You may convey up 3 scopes directly, however not 4. You may’t have each the Waveform and the RGB Parade activated on the similar time.
You may have a number of monitoring features getting used on the similar time.
The monitor does have pinch to zoom. The pinch to zoom works effectively and you’ll drag the place round on the display screen. Like all contact display screen gadget, typically it’s a must to do it greater than as soon as to get it to work.
There are three presets you possibly can assign which is useful when you solely need to use particular instruments.
Above you possibly can see what objects can be found that you would be able to assign to the operate buttons.
Having used SmallHD’s unbelievable Web page OS system over the previous few years it is vitally onerous to return to the rest. In saying that, Shimbol has accomplished a fairly good job with the working system and it’s higher than most different displays on this worth vary.
Viewing Help Instruments
The monitor has fairly an intensive array of monitoring help instruments:
- Waveform
- Vectorscope
- Histogram
- RGB parade
- 3D Luts
- Peaking focus help
- False shade
- Zebras
- Monochrome
- Grid
- Protected space
- Marker
- Heart marker
- Matte
- Gamma
- Colour temp
- HDR
- Zoom
- Anamorphic mode (1.33x, 1.5x, 1.65x 1.8x, 2x)
The vast majority of these instruments could be adjusted and customised. It’s good to see objects reminiscent of waveform, vectorscope, and false shade on this monitor.
With focus peaking, you possibly can regulate the colour in addition to the sensitivity.
An issue I had with the peaking is that it might come up on the highest and backside of the display screen when capturing anamorphic or utilizing body guides.
I like having False Colour, nonetheless, Shimbol doesn’t offer you any completely different scales to select from. The colours do have IRE values connected to them which is healthier than nothing, however the scale hasn’t been mapped to any explicit digital camera.
The size for some motive can also be reversed from what you’d often see, with 0 IRE on the high and 109 IRE on the backside.
You additionally should be very cautious when utilizing exterior displays which have false shade with most cameras, as a result of if you’re recording Log or RAW, and utilizing a LUT, the false shade goes to replicate the values for the LUT and never on your Log picture.
With zebras, you possibly can regulate the minimal and most values. That is good as a result of you possibly can set the precise degree for center gray in your digital camera and use that to get extra correct publicity.
Above you possibly can see a number of the different instruments which might be obtainable.
3D LUTs
You may load up 3D LUT by way of the SD card slot. The monitor additionally has 4 pre-set onboard LUTs.
On the monitor I used to be testing these had been the preset LUTs:
- S-Log2
- S-Log3
- Redlogfilm
- REDLog
- Log-C
- C-Log
- Log-3G10
- V-LOG
You may load as much as LUTS by way of the SD card slot. The SD card must be formatted as FAT32 or NTFS.
Recording
One of many good options of the Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional is its capability to report clips to an SD card.
Shimbol features a 64GB SD card with the monitor.
Now, to set the monitor up for recording you merely go to the digital camera icon within the menu and there you possibly can select how the recording is triggered, the TC mode, the recording high quality, or whether or not it’s for playback or video enhancing.
It’s also possible to select what to call the recordsdata.
I set the monitor as much as mechanically report after I hit report on the digital camera. When the monitor is recording you get a pleasant massive crimson body round it.
Now, when you’re recording you don’t get any entry to the monitoring instruments. Any instrument you had activated turns off whereas the monitor is recording.
The recording choices are LT, HQ, and XQ. So what do these truly imply? Nicely, Shimbol doesn’t present any details about what kind of recordsdata these are or what the bitrate is, and so forth.
I made a decision to look into what’s being recorded and beneath you possibly can see what the variations are between the LT, HQ, and XQ recordsdata. All of the recordsdata will likely be recorded in no matter body charge you’re utilizing in your digital camera.
LT
The LT recording possibility offers you a YUV420 file that’s utilizing JVT/AVC Coding positioned in a MP4 wrapper. The bitrate being recorded is 8.38 Mb/s
HQ
The HQ recording possibility offers you a YUV420 file that’s utilizing JVT/AVC Coding positioned in a MP4 wrapper. The bitrate being recorded is 17.72 Mb/s
XQ
The XQ recording possibility offers you a YUV420 file that’s utilizing JVT/AVC Coding positioned in a MP4 wrapper. The bitrate being recorded is 25.14 Mb/s.
Now, not one of the recordsdata had any embedded timecode from my testing. It didn’t matter what setting I attempted or whether or not I set it to Editor or Playback.
Whereas it’s good to have the ability to report and playback clips, the standard of the clips arguably isn’t actually adequate for use for lots of purposes. I assume you can use them for social media platforms when you needed. As there doesn’t appear to be anyway of recording embedded timecode within the recordsdata their usefulness in publish goes to be extraordinarily restricted.
Energy
The Reminiscence 7 Professional attracts ≤ 10W which could be very low for a excessive vivid monitor. It might take an enter voltage of 7-24V and it makes use of twin Sony NP battery plates.
The batteries doesn’t transfer round or wobble on the battery plate.
Is it quiet?
There may be nothing worse than a monitor that has a really noisy fan. A few of the Atomos choices sound like there’s a mini hairdryer being utilized in the identical room. The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional doesn’t make any noise as a result of it doesn’t have fan.
I didn’t discover that both the casing or the display screen bought overly scorching, even after leaving it on for important quantities of time.
How is the picture?
Picture high quality and usefulness are not less than to me, the 2 largest packing containers that should be ticked with any monitor that’s going for use in an expert setting.
So far as the picture high quality is worried it’s fairly good. The display screen is sweet and vivid and sharp. Out of the field it didn’t have an excessive amount of saturation. You may regulate the parameters of the picture reminiscent of distinction, saturation, hue, and sharpness.
The pictures don’t look like too artificially sharp. It’s onerous in a overview to point out you display screen high quality. You really want to see a display screen your self to have the ability to choose high quality.
The Reminiscence 7 Professional doesn’t characteristic any kind of built-in gentle sensor so the monitor can regulate its brightness mechanically when the sunshine setting modifications.
You may change the brightness of the monitor by way of a % scale within the menu settings, nonetheless, I discovered that when you regulate it above 50% (the default setting, the monitor simply will get all washed out and unusable.
The display screen does covers 100% of Rec.709, and Shimbol does additionally state that it covers DCI-P3. Unusually the monitor does have HDR settings that embody PQ, and HLG. I’m undecided what good these modes could be given the monitor doesn’t covers a Rec.2020 Colour Gamut. They’re actually extra like simulated views of what HDR would appear to be.
Is it truly 2200 nits?
I examined the monitor by capturing a white card and exposing it at 100 IRE on a waveform. I then performed again that clip and measured the brightness utilizing a Sekonic C-800. I did assessments with the Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional with quite a lot of backlight, brightness, and HDR settings.
Above you possibly can see the end result I obtained with the monitor’s backlight set to 100 and the brightness at its default setting of fifty. The monitor recorded a determine of 2000 nits which was slightly below the claimed 2200 nits.
Above you possibly can see the end result I obtained with the monitor’s backlight set to 100 and the brightness at its most setting of 100. The monitor recorded a determine of 2730 nits, nonetheless, with the brightness set at 100 the picture is washed out and never very usable.
Above you possibly can see the end result I obtained with the monitor’s backlight set to 100, the brightness at its default setting of fifty, and with the HDR HLG setting turned on. The monitor recorded a determine of 1790 nits.
Above you possibly can see the end result I obtained with the monitor’s backlight set to 100, the brightness at its most setting of 100, and with the HDR PQ setting turned on. The monitor recorded a determine of 2730 nits.
Usability
With displays, you want to have the ability to entry help instruments shortly. With the Reminiscence 7 Professional you are able to do this moderately quick, nevertheless it does require a couple of steps until you assign help instruments to operate buttons.
The menu and video help show buttons will overlap your picture until you’re capturing anamorphic. You may simply contact on the display screen to take away them.
The monitor is comparatively simple to mount, however I do want that the HDMI connectors had been countersunk. With the HDMI ports on the facet of the monitor, you have to watch out that your cable doesn’t get tangled on one thing.
The monitor has no points accepting a 3840 x 2160 sign over HDMI from a mirrorless hybrid.
I like that the SDI ports are recessed and I don’t thoughts them being positioned on the again of the monitor, though this in all probability does considerably restrict you to utilizing angled SDI cables, in any other case you’ll find yourself with a cable sticking straight out.
Worth & Availability
The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional is now obtainable to buy for $479 USD. There may be additionally the Shimbol Reminiscence 7, which is actually the identical, nevertheless it doesn’t characteristic on-board recording capabilities. It retails for $379 USD.
Competitors
There are loads of 7″ displays from a spread of producers together with FeelWorld, Portkeys, Lilliput, Atomos, SmallHD, Blackmagic Design and so forth.
Under are simply a number of the 7″ displays which have each SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs that could possibly be thought of competitors. Please notice that every one of those displays have completely different brightness and have units.
| PRICE | |
| Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional | $479 USD |
| Shimbol Reminiscence 7 | $379 USD |
| Atomos Shinobi 7″ 4K HDMI/SDI Monitor | $599 USD |
| Transvideo Stargate 7″ 3G/HD-SDI LCD Monitor Recorder | $3,536.95 USD |
| SmallHD 702 Contact 7″ On-Digicam Monitor | $1,799 USD |
| SmallHD ULTRA 7 | $2,999 USD |
| SmallHD 703 UltraBright On-Digicam Monitor | $2,999 USD |
| SmallHD INDIE 7 | $1,399 USD |
| Blackmagic Design Video Help 7″ 12G-SDI | $995 USD |
| Blackmagic Design Video Help 3G-SDI/HDMI 7″ | $765 USD |
| PORTKEYS BM7 II DS 7″ Excessive-Vibrant Monitor | $899 USD |
| FeelWorld FW703 7″ | $236.99 USD |
| FeelWorld LUT7S 7″ | $369.99 USD |
| FeelWorld 7″ 4K Extremely-Vibrant Monitor | $339.99 USD |
| FeelWorld LUT7S PRO 7″ | $379.99 USD |
| Lilliput FS7 7″ | $239 USD |
| Lilliput Q7-12G 7″ HD 12G-SDI/HDMI 2.0 Extremely-Vibrant | $899 USD |
| Lilliput Q7 Professional 7″ | $519 USD |
| ANDYCINE C7S 7″ | $369.99 USD |
| FeelWorld SH7 7″ On-Digicam Monitor | $319.99 USD |
| TVLogic F-7HS 7″ | $1,975 USD |
| Elvid FieldVision 7″ HDR IPS LCD On-Digicam Monitor | $499.95 USD |
Conclusion
The Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional is an affordably priced, effectively constructed 7″ monitor. It’s vivid, sharp, and the colours it shows are moderately correct (though possibly barely undersaturated within the default mode). The working system and touchscreen performance are moderately good and there’s a huge array of monitoring help instruments.
The monitor doesn’t characteristic a fan and it runs silently. It additionally doesn’t get too scorching which is sweet to see.
The recording capabilities, whereas superb, and fairly fundamental and you’ll’t actually use it for something greater than playback. Sure, you can report HD low bitrate clips to add to social media channels in a while, however I’m not positive how many individuals would do this. The opposite caveat is that the clips don’t comprise any embedded timecode from the digital camera so in publish they received’t match up.
In my private opinion, I feel the Shimbol Reminiscence 7 Professional is a good possibility if you’re in search of a effectively made 7″ on-camera touchscreen monitor, nonetheless, it does face very stiff competitors from different displays which might be available on the market.
