Ninja V+ (ATOMNJVPL2Q)

I would contact Sony and see if there is any such monitor already available and compatible. Swapping out the lcd backlight will be a huge pain in the ass and most likely not work when you are handheld and moving around. There is no shame in needing a daylight viewable monitor. And there is no shame in needing a bigger monitor for handheld work. Honestly the smallhd 502 hd monitor (or cine 5) or the atomos ninja v+ with the sdi input converter would be good if you can spare a sdi or hdmi output on the camera. If you power the camera off of batteries, then you can probably get the dtap power off the battery to power the monitor too. The biggest issue may be splitting the sdi signal out of the camera if you don’t have a spare sdi output, but with battery redundancy on the monitor and camera, you can even loop through the monitor and the engineering truck shouldn’t get too mad at you. The only other small 3.5” monitors I have seen are evf monitors that have a flip up sun hood, but they usually are not daylight viewable as they have the sun hood. But rent some options and see what you like. Even if you pay for it out of pocket, it will make your life so much better for handheld sports work.

Hey everyone, I’m looking to upgrade my on-camera monitor for my FX3 and wanted to get some real-world opinions. Right now I’m strongly considering the SmallHD Cine 5 — mainly for the build quality, brightness, and color accuracy. It seems like one of those “buy once, cry once” monitors. For context, I had a Ninja V a while back and it actually died on me randomly mid-shoot. To be fair, Atomos customer service was great and replaced it without any hassle, so no complaints there — but it kind of shook my confidence in relying on it long-term. Now I’m looking for something a bit more “industry standard” that I can trust to just work and last for years. I shoot a lot in harsh environments (heat, sand, travel, etc.), so durability and reliability are a big deal for me. Main things I care about: \- Accurate color (something I can trust on set) \- High brightness for outdoor shooting \- Solid build quality / ruggedness \- Good monitoring tools (false color, waveform, etc.) \- Long-term reliability I don’t really care about external recording — just monitoring. Would you go with the Cine 5 for this, or is there something better I should be looking at? Open to anything as long as it holds up in real-world conditions. Appreciate any insight 🙏

If I had 400 to spend right now I'd go for the cheaper monitor. I've been rocking a feelworld for about a year now, and although my atmos ninja V looked beautiful I've found that functionally I get everything I need from the less expensive monitor (not recording of course). The bigger screen is super nice too, 7in feels huge. Generally I'd save for gear that affects the actual image as opposed to the shooting experience. Lights, scrims, diffusion, reflectors, that kind of thing. To be fair, pulling focus well is definitely going to affect the image but I haven't had much trouble on that front. If you're only doing camera op you might want to put the extra money towards a cage, rails, focus gears or other rigging stuff if you haven't already. All that being said the options on the market are pretty good and atmost monitors looks great, I doubt you would be unhappy with your choice either way.

I have a ninja V and I’m use to the Atomos systems, if I were to buy one now it would be the shinobi ii. I recommended my friend to get it and she loves it. I’m not sure about other brands, maybe other people can chime in. There’s feelworld and others

I believe so, I'm really getting fed up with my Ninja V I bought years ago to work around 30 minute recording limit on Sony A7III and it was also on sale at that moment. I don't mind it when using photo lenses with autofocus but that's rarer and rarer and it just sucks with manual lenses.