Monitors and "Ultra" 4k TVs - two many circles in my head

[jrw]

You will need to let us know how this works out and the results of the testing. I am kind of toying with the idea of getting one to use as a monitor for tethered shooting in the studio if I can find one that is suitable. Not something that makes it into too many reviews for some reason....

[HDNitehawk]

You will need to let us know how this works out and the results of the testing. I am kind of toying with the idea of getting one to use as a monitor for tethered shooting in the studio if I can find one that is suitable. Not something that makes it into too many reviews for some reason....

I bought a HDMI cable to attach to my 55" Sony, plugged in the 7D II with the microphone I just bought and made a video of our Christmas. The grandkids had a blast watching themselves on TV. The Picture was great.

For the purpose of tethered shooting I wonder if there would be a benefit from a 4K monitor. The 7D II will not shot 4K, I would think that if you were in live wouldn't see a resolution beyond that. Or would you?

[Busted Knuckles]

Performance update - Awesome.

While that start up from a cold start is much faster (thanks to the SSD drive) the real tell of the tape is the stitching of the mega pano. You might recall I did a 200+ frame pano of the east side of Logan's pass (take w/ a 5dSr). Well on my month old i7 laptop 12 g ram, 4g dedicated to the graphics card, it took 10 ish minutes to load the images, and a casual cup off coffee to align, and then a leisurely lunch to render the 65k x 30k (1.96 gigapixel) image. Well the new box did these tasks in the following time frames - a little under a minute to load all the images (229 of them), and just about 30 seconds to align and then perhaps a full minute to render.

So I am pretty happy with the oomph that this system has. I have yet to optimize the RAM drive(probably won't at this point), etc, etc. this is pretty much straight out of the box.

With gigapixel results a few a minute or two away vs. hours, I a getting stoked to go do some more of this type of work. I am still working on the real graphics monitor. The only draw back now is that it makes the uber images of a 5DsR and one of the uber sharp tele's more available from a through put perspective may trigger a relapse of GAS. No new cool thing is ever the end - it is always a new beginning