Most professional 4K monitors for grading have been eye-wateringly expensive until now, meaning it’s often made sense to use a TV set as an output monitor if you’re not made of money. That’s not ideal though as consumer TVs often lack proper gamma controls and process the input heavily: good enough for watching TV, but not useful if you’re trying to carefully grade a Log image.
Now TVLogic have announced the LUM-240G, a 24″ 4K monitor that’s a little more affordable at, well, there’s no getting around this: $8,000. But if you need a reference monitor, either in a grading suite or a DIT cart it’s a lot more reasonably priced than most of what’s out there at the moment.
The unit features 4K resolution and a colour gamut that reaches 97% of the DCI P3 standard. There are built-in LUTs for Rec.709, SMPTE-C, EBU, D-Cinema (DCI P3) and emulated BT 2020.
There’s also support for 4K input over quad SDI, 6G, 12G SDI or HDMI 2.0 so there shouldn’t be any issues getting a signal to the panel.
It’s large enough to be used for checking focus reliably in 4K, but small enough to be used on location or as part of a DIT cart – there’s also a 17″ model with 1:1 pixel mapping if you’re after something that’s physically smaller.
The LUM-24-G has a list price in the US of $8,295 – and if you need one, chances are you’ll be able to make that investment work for you…
