Designed With You In Mind… ikan has become the standard of reliable, affordable production tools. As with all our products, we designed our monitors to be the highest quality at a price everyone can afford. The VX7 was built with this philosophy in mind. We’ve listened to our customers taking note of what they wanted in a production monitor, light weight, high resolution, multiple inputs and of course inexpensive. The new VX7 from ikan exemplifies these ideas, and more…
What’s in the Box? Every VX7 comes complete with your choice of DV Battery Plate, (Sony, Panasonic or Canon), AC Power Supply and a shoe mount you can mount your monitor.
Regular LCDs Regular LCD monitors are backlit using a cathode fluorescent lamp. They emit a blanket of light across the screen. A LCD is just a massive screen of tiny doors that open and close to create an image. When trying to show black, these doors close, but the fluorescent back light is so strong it will inevitably leak through the closed doors, resulting in more of a glowy charcoal instead of true black.
Enter the LED Instead of having one big fluorescent light shining up through all of the LCD pixels, you have arrays of LEDs that shine through smaller portions of the LCD screen, leaving other portions in the dark. The result is a crisp, clear image with true blacks and better contrast, and this is why LED backlighting is standard on all of the VX monitors.
Freeze Frame This function displays a side by side comparison of the incoming video signal. Each time the F1/2 button is pushed it will freeze the current frame on the right hand side of the display while the left continues to display the live signal.
Get The Right Image With Blue Only Screen Blue Gun allows you to quickly calibrate your monitor to ensure the image you’re seeing on the monitor is exactly the same color that your camera is shooting. It does this by isolating the blue color signal and when displaying a set of standard NTSC color bars, a set pattern will emerge allowing for precise calibration.
