Shopping for an external monitor for my Sony A1. Nauticam housing with an open M24, what would you suggest?

Hi Vitaly,

We have a pinned thread updated with nearly all the monitor's out there.

Personally, the latest Weefine checks all my requirements.

Hi Davide,

I saw the list, but there are just too many options to figure out what’s best. I’ll check out Weefine, thanks!

Regards,
Vitaly

Well, it partly depends on your needs (video or photos) and partly on the camera you use.

In my opinion, brightness and weight are basic factors to start from. The 500 nits of past generations are absolutely insufficient for working at shallow depths and strong lighting typical of tropical waters. I have a similar old monitor and was forced to build a huge sunshade to see anything. A reduced weight is equally important since mirrorless camera bodies are very small and, consequently, so are their housings. For video, it's important to have a balanced setup, not just a neutral one. Managing to balance the whole kit with a monitor that weighs almost a kilogram and is placed on top of the housing is a real mess.

Then it depends on whether the monitor must have or compensate for features that the camera lacks: focus peaking, histograms, waveforms, and LUTs. From this point of view, I have a Lumix GH5M2 that has everything, so fundamentally, I'm just looking for an excellent bright image.

Moreover some cameras have limitations on the image format and the features that are transmitted via HDMI. To give one example: many monitors now advertise that they can accept a 4K@60p signal. With Panasonics, I have always set the downscaling to 1080p directly in the camera but some cameras actually transmit a signal via HDMI that is identical to what is being used.

So these are some thought to start with.

Ciao