Field Monitors

Here is how the work lines up. Field monitor inventory in New York is held mostly through Stray Angel NY, Boland Communications (with the Boland reference panels they design and manufacture for the East Coast post and broadcast market), NTP Technology, AbelCine LIC, Sim Group NY, and ScreenWorks, with Adorama Rental Co at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, TCS Cine Services in Greenpoint, and Panavision NY in Hell's Kitchen filling exact package gaps.

Here is the breakdown. We stock the SmallHD Cine 7, Cine 13, 1303 HDR, and OLED 17-inch range, Atomos Sumo and Neon production monitors, TVLogic LVM-178W and LUM-181G reference panels, Sony BVM-HX310 OLED and PVM-X300 grade-1 reference for HDR-critical streaming and series work, and Boland MON-17 and MON-24 reference monitors for the video village builds out of Silvercup Long Island City, Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Kaufman Astoria, and York Studios.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Sun-loading on Manhattan rooftop exteriors, Brooklyn parade-route shoots, and Hudson Valley unit moves pushes us toward high-bright 3,000-nit SmallHD Cine 7 units with sun hoods staged on each order, while controlled interiors at Silvercup and Steiner favour the Sony OLED reference path.

Here is how the picture comes together. Each unit is bench-calibrated at the rental house with Klein K10-A and Konica Minolta CA-310 probes against Rec. 709, P3-D65, or Rec. 2020 PQ targets based on the camera and deliverable, with the show LUT pre-loaded where the colourist or DIT has shipped it through Pomfort Live Grade and a signed calibration report attached to the case before truck loadout.

Here is what we have to work with. IATSE Local 600 DITs and Local 52 video engineers handle the on-set integration with the Cooke /i Technology, Zeiss eXtended Data, Preston FI+Z, or cmotion cPRO focus systems and the Teradek Bolt 4K LT, Bolt 6 XT, Bolt 1500, or Vaxis Storm 3000 wireless chain — frequency-lined up through our office given the FCC RF planning NYC's dense-built RF settings and post-700 MHz auction range demands.

Here is the layout. Spare V-mount and Gold-mount batteries, BNC and HD-SDI patch panels, SMPTE-rated fibre runs for the long throws across Steiner's Stage 5 and the Silvercup floor, articulating Noga arms, and Decimator and AJA Mini-Converters travel with each order. Our duty office in Long Island City and Williamsburg runs a 24-hour swap cycle for failed panels and dead pixels. The MOME Made in NY permit and NYS Film Tax Credit forms through ESD route alongside the rental contract.