If you use your LG OLED as a grading monitor, few things are as infuriating as having the apps launcher pop up every time you get ready to work on a project. I believe my television started behaving like that with the latest firmware update, not sure. Anyhow, here’s how to immobilize the dreaded apps… Read More
Calibration Obsession
If I want accurate colors from my a7s III, I shoot the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Video, and in post, (1) I pull diffuse white down to 200 nits; (2) white balance using the white, grey and black chips, color curves and RGB overlay; (3) correct colors using the color chips, vectorscope and hue vs. hue;… Read More
LG 2020 OLED HDR Calibration
Prior to using your LG OLED TV as an HDR grading monitor, you’ll probably want to calibrate it. LG recommends a burn in time of 100 hours of HDR content for the most consistent pixel response. In order to calibrate using a Mac, you’ll need VMware Fusion 12 Player, Windows 10, a colorimeter, a USB… Read More
iPhone 12 Pro as a Consumer Reference Display (cont’d)
A few years back, when a younger, more handsome Vincent Theo of HDTVTest declared in his review of the Sony BVM-X300 reference monitor, “When I say that something is reference, it means that you know this accurately reflects the director’s and producer’s intention because this is in fact the monitor that is used in post-production… Read More
At Last! LG 32EP950 OLED Monitor
At the moment, with just two manufacturers currently occupying the consumer HDR monitor space – Asus, with their ProArt series and Apple’s Pro Display XDR – LG looks poised to leapfrog them both with their newly announced 32” OLED display. Both the Pro Display XDR and ProArt series use mini LED technology, which suffers from… Read More
MicroLED Is A Pipe Dream
For a while now, any time OLED television sets are mentioned, online commenters raise the spectre of burn-in and suggest waiting for microLED, which they insist is just around the corner. Like OLED, microLED is a self-emissive technology capable of true blacks, infinite contrast and outstanding viewing angles but with a brighter output than OLED… Read More
Switching to Resolve!
After months of agonizing, I finally broke down and hired a professional calibration technician to adjust my LG OLED C7, calling the very first name that popped up in a Google search for Ho Chi Minh City. The price was steep – $300.00 – but the quest for perfect color has become a crazy obsession.… Read More
Vincent Teoh: Colorists Should Consider an OLED TV
Vincent Teoh, in his unboxing video of the Panasonic HZ1000 OLED TV, corroborates what I’ve been saying for months now, which is that an OLED display should outperform Apple’s Pro Display XDR for HDR grading, and just might be the best budget option short of a reference monitor. When I reviewed the Apple Pro Display… Read More
Should You Be Using a Production Monitor for Grading HDR in 2020?
Just a few years ago, when HDR was still in its infancy and VESA had not yet even published standards for HDR monitors, Atomos, along with Mystery Box and several other influential content creators, were advocating the use of production monitors for grading HDR video on a budget – with some even going so far… Read More
Continuing Impressions of Using an OLED TV for Grading
In this video, I give some brief early impressions of using an OLED TV for grading, how I think the soon-to-be released LG CX 48″ OLED could be ideal for filmmakers and how I messed up the skin tones in my last video.
