
Now the new Z27x has five established colors, so you can light with and judge color and contrast. It required a DVI connection and a full HD signal, which meant you were judging your color and contrast and your exposure on a full gamut, which resulted in many subtle levels in the shadows and highlights being lost.

The old DreamColor could not access these color space engines with the HDMI. A monitor that can generate the color space that all post production houses use to grade your footage is so important. You name it, there is a flat profile to give you increased latitude to experiment in post. “On to the Exciting Part”Įverything comes down to Color Space with all these new flat profiles like C log, Log C and BMCC RAW. Integrated calibration engine for hostless calibration with the HP DreamColor Calibration Solution, Klein Instruments K10-A, Photo Research spectroradiometers, Konica Minolta CA-310, calibration with on-screen menus or XML scripting, and upload and download LUTs. This real-time immediacy is the way I like to roll out. It also has its own calibration tool, which can be used on set without a computer. The new Z27x has a much more accurate 14 bit calibration engine in the monitor itself. The process to color calibrate was very cumbersome. When used in the field it gets bumped around and needed calibration after about 250 hours. The old DreamColor did not need calibration for about 4000 hours if it stayed on your desktop. Music in video courtesy of The Music Bed: Tony Anderson, Miami Skyline “Keep It Calibrated” That alone is reason to be excited about their product.Ī wide view angle at 178 degrees will keep your clients at video village seeing the right contrast and color because of this expanded view. If you look at any high-end post facility or color-grading house, DreamColors rule the roost. It delivers a true 10 BIT color reproduction, not these fake ones. This monitor resolution is 2560×1440, which will accept 2K as well as doing a 3840×2160 or 4096×2160, which can be displayed scale to fit or pixel-for-pixel with dynamic scroll.


The design of the monitor is much sleeker and offers some wonderful upgrades. Right off the bat, I saw a massive improvement in resolution and detail. The 27” is around the same weight as the previous 24”. Much sleeker design and lighter 24” model.
