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This results in an exceptionally high contrast ratio, not replicable in LCD screens that dim the screen to achieve black levels.
With an OLED screen, organic light-emitting diode displays are made up of individual pixels that don’t emit light when they are turned off. If you’ve ever considered buying a new TV or smartphone you’ve likely seen the obvious difference between LCD and OLED screens. Most EVFs on the market feature an LCD display. There’s basically nothing the Zacuto Gratical HD doesn’t have-it’s so feature rich-but the main thing that sets it apart from its competitors is its OLED display. An ARRI rosette so you don’t have to fiddle with an ever-loosening ¼ 20 screw? It has that. A plethora of scopes, frame guides, customized peaking and zebra patterns? Yep, it has that. The ability to import, export and create LUTs and custom camera presets? This bad boy has that. HDMI & SDI with cross conversion and the ability to send a different LUT out to an additional monitor? The Gratical HD EVF has that.
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With the Gratical HD, Zacuto took everything that was great about the EVF PRO and everything requiring improvement and created a product that simply excels.
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So if the Zacuto EVF Pro was such a great EVF to begin with, why upgrade to the Gratical EVF?
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There’s not a lot to fault about the Zacuto Z-Finder EVF Pro, besides the inability to accept a camera signal higher than 1080p at 30fps, lower resolution than some other present day EVFs on the market, and it missing some pro firmware features, like scopes. The EVF Pro provided accurate color rendering, excellent built in features like false color, long battery life, camera profiles and assignable menu buttons making switching between features a snap. When Zacuto came out with the Z-Finder EVF Pro they showed camera operators that electronic viewfinders could be accurate. So what makes a good EVF versus a great EVF? Dynamic range, resolution and accuracy. Why be surprised in post when the right tool could help you get the image you thought you were capturing in the first place? Inaccurate monitors and EVFs lead to inaccurate choices that could end up ruining the shot. For a person like myself who both shoots and edits, I’ve learned the majority of my lessons in the editing suite. The trouble with setting exposure, focus and white balance using an inaccurate tool becomes most apparent when viewing the image in post. Many cameras ship with terrible quality built-in EVFs a result of manufacturers choosing to spend more money on the monitor, assuming it will be the camera operator’s preferred tool.
Stick your eye into an electronic viewfinder and your experience may be something altogether different.
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Stick your eye into a quality optical viewfinder on a professional film camera and you see clarity, sharpness, gradation between light and dark, and color accuracy. When you make an optical viewfinder digital, there’s room for error. Bringing the eyepiece into the digital age hasn’t changed that. Closing one eye and casting out all distraction to frame an image has always been the point of the viewfinder. There’s an intimacy inherent in assembling a shot using an eyepiece. Yes, monitors are great, but there are situations-like overly lit environments-when glare disrupts the image, and shooting scenarios when the placement of the camera dictates the use of an EVF. The importance of an electronic viewfinder (EVF) can’t be overstated.