PORTKEYS BM5IV WR 5.5" HDMI/SDI Touchscreen Monitor with Camera Control
The Portkeys BM5IV WR is a robust 5.5-inch on-camera monitor ready for all your next creative adventures. Powered by Portkeys’ latest CINENORM OS, this compact monitor is daylight-viewable, it can be operated via its touchscreen or the four user-assignable function buttons, it comes with a full suite of professional monitoring tools, and it has the capability to control your camera wired or wirelessly.
The housing of the BM5IV WR is entirely made of rugged aluminum housing. It has thin bevels around the screen and features a toughened glass in front of the display. With a weight of only 358g/12.62oz (without battery), it won’t add much poundage to your camera rig.
No matter if you’re shooting indoors or outdoors, the Portkeys BM5IV WR is daylight-viewable with a high brightness of 2,000 nits. The 10-bit (8+2 FRC) panel makes color reproduction more accurate with a rich level of color details and no color banding. This 5.5-inch monitor has a FullHD 1920 x 1080 resolution, a large 178° viewing angle, and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.
The monitor comes factory color-calibrated, but if needed over time, you can use an X-Rite color probe to create a calibration 3D LUT.
Indeed, accurate color reproduction with rich color details and no color banding has never been easier to achieve with the superb 10-bit (8+2 FRC) panel. Lastly, these 5.5-inch monitors have a FullHD 1920 x 1080 resolution, a large 178° viewing angle, and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.
The Portkeys BM5IV WR is a versatile on-camera monitor designed for professional filmmakers and content creators. It features multiple video input and output ports, including two HDMI input and output ports that can take resolutions up to 4K DCI at 60P.
Also, there are 3G-SDI input and output ports that support resolutions up to 1080P60. The SDI video output can output a clean video feed, but it can also output the image with a 3D LUT and peaking if needed. The BM5IV WR can be placed anywhere you need in the video signal chain with HDMI cross-conversion.
Thanks to the two video input ports, you can view two different video signals simultaneously with multiple different viewing modes, including picture-in-picture mode, dual horizontal, dual vertical, left horizontal/right vertical, and left vertical/right horizontal.
Features:
- 5.5-inch, 10-bit (8+2 FRC) panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.
- Daylight-viewable with a maximum brightness of 2,000nits.
- 1 x 4K60P HDMI input, 1 x 3G-SDI input, 1 x 4K60P HDMI output, 1 x 3G-SDI output with cross-conversion.
- Powered by CINENORM OS, which supports up to 7 custom pages.
- Professional monitoring tools: Waveform, Vectorscope, Peaking, ARRI False Color.
- 3D LUT monitoring and 3D LUT SDI output capabilities.
- Split-screen monitoring capabilities with multiple viewing modes, including PBP, PIP, and H2V.
- Factory color-calibrated, and the possibility for users to create a 3D calibration LUT with an X-Rite color probe.
- Wireless camera control of ARRI, RED, SONY, Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, and Blackmagic Design cameras.
- Wired camera control for Sony, Canon, Panasonic, BMD, and ZCAM E2.
- TILTA Nucleus N/M wireless follow focus wired control.
- Built-in Sony NP-F style battery plate.
- 4-pin and 2-pin LEMO 7.4V-24V power inputs for external power (D-Tap cable included).
- Lightweight and rugged aluminum housing: only 358g/12.62oz.