Eizo’s New DCI 4K ColorEdge Monitor Is Made for HDR Video and Very Excessive-Finish Images

Eizo has lengthy been celebrated for its professional-grade, color-accurate displays. Its shows are among the many finest choices within the trade for skilled photographers and videographers. The firm’s newest flagship DCI 4K show, the 30.5-inch ColorEdge CG3100X, guarantees to suit into an expert HDR workflow.

As Eizo explains, “high brightness is crucial in modern editing and post-production workflows to support HDR and ensure consistent display of colors and highlights in video content.” To that finish, the CG3100X has a most brightness of 500 cd/m² (nits), up from 350 nits within the earlier CG319X mannequin. The new show guarantees a distinction ratio of 1800:1, guaranteeing that black ranges keep black. It is price noting that whereas 500 nits technically meets HDR400 specs, 500 nits will not be particularly vibrant, and a few color-accurate displays, like Apple’s Pro Display XDR, for instance, can maintain brightness as excessive as 1,000 nits regardless of having an IPS LCD panel.

“The CG3100X further ensures professionals can reliably create and edit in HDR by supporting the hybrid log-gamma (HLG) transfer function for broadcasts and the perceptual quantization (PQ) curve. These optimized gamma curves render images to appear truer to how the human eye perceives the real world compared to SDR (standard dynamic range),” Eizo continues.

While this, and different options just like the monitor’s built-in broadcast and cinema presets, are constructed with skilled video enhancing and post-production purposes in thoughts, Eizo maintains that the CG3100X is designed for skilled photographers, too. It is the corporate’s latest and largest show for professional pictures, and may show 99% of the DCI-P3 normal and 97% of Adobe RGB. Users can swap between totally different shade areas with a button on the entrance of the monitor.

The 10-bit show can present a couple of billion colours concurrently, 64 occasions extra colours than are attainable with an 8-bit panel. The GC3100X additionally has a 3D LUT (look-up desk) that adjusts colours on an RGB cubic desk. Using Eizo’s proprietary ColorNavigator 7 software program, which is the corporate’s shade administration and calibration software program for its ColorEdge displays, customers can fine-tune their show and in addition emulate particular video content material shade properties utilizing a 3D LUT file.

Speaking of calibration, the show has built-in calibration sensor tech that works by way of ColorNavigator 7, eliminating the necessity to use third-party calibration units.

The ColorEdge CG3100X is Eizo’s second ColorEdge mannequin to assist Fixed Rate Link (FRL), following the Prominence CG1. FRL permits the show to obtain 12-bit indicators over HDMI, which may be essential for sure video transport and workflow necessities.

As for ports, the ColorEdge CG3100X has 4 USB Type-A downstream ports and a headphone port on its left aspect. On the monitor’s rear, there are HDMI, DisplayPort, USB Type-C (upstream), LAN, and USB Type-B (upstream) ports. The DisplayPort and HDMI inputs assist DCI 4K decision at 60p 4:4:4 10-bit and 12-bit, respectively. The USB-C port ensures simple reference to many laptops and artistic workstations. The USB-C port can concurrently deal with video show and ship as much as 94 watts of energy.

The Eizo ColorEdge CG3100X boasts many different options designed for skilled workflows, together with AI-based estimation algorithms that may detect temperature adjustments and hold the monitor secure always, a really swift three-minute warmup interval, on-screen marker capabilities, out-of-gamut warnings, clipping warnings for excessively vibrant content material, a verified manufacturing unit report within the monitor’s field, and Eizo’s beneficiant five-year guarantee.

The Eizo ColorEdge CG3100X is anticipated to start transport shortly, though pricing info will not be but obtainable. As a professional-grade monitor, it is going to undoubtedly be an costly possibility. The ColorEdge CG319X is just below $6,000, for instance.

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