The bleeding is normal. All ips monitors have that. The other problem, well that sucks.

I just ordered one! I hope it arrives soon!

They'll be sending me a new switch. No need to replace the whole unit for a cheap component that takes a few minutes to replace.

I got my monitor and love it, deal of the century!

I'm using a 975 battery as thats the plate it came with. However I'm having trouble finding a charger for it, so far I have bought 2 off amazon that claim to fit 975s but dont!

anyone know where I could find the charger? Thanks!

There is a lot of talk on here about getting FP-970 batteries. That's a bit nuts. This monitor doesn't eat that much power. You're better off getting two smaller batteries and saving some weight. It's a lot to ask of the hotshoe mount and up top of your camera is the worst place for weight. Had I known just how big 970 batteries were when I mail ordered them I would have gone smaller. Even if I had a rig (working on it) I'd rather have the weight on the back rather than up front. There is very little reason to get a huge battery in my opinion, especailly when you consider how long camera batteries last.

@ericsf Well, I don't think it's a Sony as there's no branding on the battery but I'm confident it's a high quality generic repacement. It was sold as part of a power pack from one of the city's main photography stores which I picked up second hand from some dude. Given the stated power requirements of the monitor, the amount of time the battery lasted seemed spot on. Contrast that with one of the P-V members who mentions in an earlier post that he bought a knock-off supposedly rated at 7200maH but that barely lasted 2 hours...

On that note I just ordered 2 Sony F770 from bhphoto. At $60 a pop I think it's a very good deal and should handle a days worth of principle-photography; you figure on a 12-15hrs shoot your monitor will probably be turned on around 2/3 of the time.

What makes me curious is whether the camera consumes less power when a monitor is plugged in and the LCD is turned off.

I am using 970 batteries, but I hope to soon buy a big Anton Bauer to put at the back of my rig, behind the shoulder, to balance it out and take the weight off my hands. The advantage is it can run monitor, camera, sound recorder for 12 hours without pause, and also balance the shoulder rig perfectly.

@spacewig

Yep, and 770 is better fit than too large 950/970 batteries.

REVIEW

So, I got my monitor today. After I managed to change the system language to English, I gave it a good old explore, and I'm very happy indeed.

One of the first things I did was calibrate it to a set of SMPTE colour bars, fed from my computer. Almost nothing needed adjusting at all. The 1-99 settings for colour, contrast, brightness, tint etc. were all bang on at 50, the factory setting. The colour is more accurate than my Marshall 7" V70 HDMI

The sharpness is absolutely exceptional. More than 720p in such a small monitor leaves no ambiguity as to sharpness when focussing. It makes the need for pixel to pixel and focus assist a bit redundant, in my opinion, but they are there, nonetheless, and actually I guess pixel to pixel is quite handy for short dof situations in 1080p.

The monitor is very light compared with my Marshall. It balances better on my rig. Having 1/4"-20 nuts on all four edges also really helps me fit the monitor on my rig properly.

The false colour is excellent and includes an on-screen colour guide, without which I always found false colour a bit useless in the past. With the guide it is very handy for consistency.

The knobs on the front actually don't seem to control anything. These settings are made in the menus in fact, and the knobs don't seem connected, which I actually prefer, because in my opinion, they are not something that needs constant tinkering - they should be calibrated and then left well alone IMHO.

The four function buttons are really handy. I have mine set to FALSE COLOUR, FOCUS ASSIST, PIXEL to PIXEL and DSLR framing, for when a friend uses his 5D with it, but I use it on my GH2s.

The frame guides could be more comprehensive, in my view. I'd like to see horizontal lines for a 1:1.85 crop and a 1:2.4 in post, for example. No big deal though.

The power supply is pretty poor, with a very short (1 metre?) lead, but presumably you'd be wanting to battery power this guy, either with Sony NP-F960/970 type batteries on the supplied battery holder, or from a V-lock or Anton Bauer. Power in is very versatile though, with a 4 pin XLR and a little barrel power input, both taking a range of voltages.

The monitor hood is good, and comes with velcro sewn on it, and a strip of velcro for the monitor, but I have very poor personal experience with velcro on monitor hoods and won't be using it. Fortunately they also suppled it with 3 holes to correspond to the side and top 1/4"-20 fixing holes, so if you get 3 thumb-screws, you're laughing! It's quite rigid and will stay on my monitor the whole time, as it protects the screen well, and is useful a lot of the time.

The monitor comes with a nice quality soft neoprene case, a nice quality hotshoe mount, and a well produced manual with pictures and clear instructions on all of the features.

I paid £256 plus £25 Import VAT, and for that, this is a bargain. This is also sold as an Ikan VX7, and it is in my view better in every way than an equivalent Marshall V70 at twice the price and perhaps nearly as good as the SmallHD AC7 LED (very similar actually).

Highly recommended! No regrets so far.

@Joshua_Cadmium

It is better monitor compared to Lilliput. And no they do not use "same panel", just resolution is the same.

Also Lilliput is not cheaper in it's advanced version that can be compared to Neway.

I'll let you know later this week, as I sold my identical Marshall (except without pass through HDMI - only one socket) so that I could buy this Neway HDMI for £100 less than my second hand Marshall went for.

I am expecting pretty much the same feature set with considerably higher resolution, false colour guide at the footer of the false colour image (handy!), tally lights (I won't use them), 2xHDMI slots (potentially useful) and similar build quality.

My Marshall was calibrated meticulously, but I never managed to achieve an accurate vibrant purple on the colour bars for some reason, so hopefully that will be better with this monitor.

The only downside I see is the resale value should I ever need to part with it. A Marshall is easy to sell, Neway...we'll see. :) I hope that despite the unknown brand, this could be much better than the old marshall.

Well that was easy. Thanks for the link manstok. I just followed the menu in the link you gave and changed it in about 2 minutes. This was truly an incredible deal.