Philips Studio Monitor 8

First, 60W will probably meet your needs in a small video studio. I only use 2-8% of the output. Secondly, a standard modifier platform (Bowens' S mount), has saved me a great deal of time. The lower cost silent heads would only accept barndoors, gaffing tape and aluminum foil. Far Far easier to repurpose old modifiers or purchase new. Previously, I would have to retape the foil at inopportune times. SILENCE is critical for me. Recording a cast once correctly is worth all the post processing in the world. Nothing beats SILENCE.

I have owned my Philips 27E1N8900 for over 2 months now. Specs are equivalent to much higher priced competitors. Was able to purchase it for $999.99. Colors and contrast are as expected from an OLED monitor. Make sure to use a DP 1.4 cable as this will give you full 10-bit depth. Refresh is 60hz. I am a moderate gamer, so this is fine for me. I have a 144hz 4K IPS monitor, but the colors/contrast of the OLED is so far beyond the IPS I chose to use the Philips 27E1N8900 for the near perfect picture quality.

To begin with, anyone who complains about the price has not checked out what the very limited field of competition sells their 27 4k OLED monitor for. This is roughly 1/2 or more the list price of the competition (which has now come down in price to within $600 dollars of this Philips model ~ I wonder why?) & I think it's a better monitor than the life is good people. Note the KVM Switch and the color plate options, plus a huge amount of ports to work with. The stand has a five inch range of motion up and down you can operate with a finger and it has the ability to rotate into portrait mode. That said the image is what will set the hook in for you. Better blacks will not be seen, especially when you turn out all the lights and realize there is no blooming into grays for blacks and those blacks are infinity devoid of light photons. 1080 upscales very well to 4k. But you will get lost in legit 4k content when viewing the Philips 27E1N8900. Forget all the big screens at home or at Lowes cinema and just hunker down in front of this 27 inch guy. I had been waiting for something along these lines for quite a while that had both quality and value to pair with my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode. It accomplishes this via a USB-C cable that both distributes the content from the Mac and powers it at the same time. (The single upgrade I will make will be swapping out the USB-C cable that came with the monitor to a thunderbolt 4 cable to yield the best possible connection with my MacBook Pro.) Oh... & Philips stands solidly behind this monitor with a 4 year guarantee. Enough said. Highly recommended.

8 x Splitter works as described. Great unit.

One of the amazing product from philips. Great

The perfect monitor for the Mac Studio.

Now my rolling studio monitor can be placed anywhere.

8GB SDRAM is much better than 4GB in my DELL desktop computer.

It takes some getting used to. I always shoot it at EI 100. It has all the tonal range you need right there. It always requires underdevelopment though, anywhere from 8% -15%. The highlights blow out very easily, and this helps control them. Scratches easily, a bit softer than HP5. The lack of grain looks phenomenal at a large scale.

I just used the battery for the first time to shoot an 11 hour wedding day. I ran it down to 8% and it lasted me about 9.5 hours and around 2900 frames. They say it lasts 1350 or something like that but for me it was double.