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Desview

A monitor and a prompter, 91 € and 149 €

Where it turns up

Field monitors and teleprompters, at 91 € and 149 €.

A feature that works on arrival

Five monitors on that shelf support 3D lookup tables. This is the one that supplies the U-disk to carry them — which sounds trivial until the alternative is discovering on location that the socket needs media nobody packed.

Eight volts, going the other way

A DC output that powers the camera through a dummy battery, so one NP-F970 on the monitor runs both devices. On a long interview that replaces three camera batteries with one, and removes the swap that always happens mid-take.

The prompter that fits every lens

Adapter rings from 49 to 82 mm, in the box. A prompter clamps to the filter thread of whatever lens is fitted, and lenses disagree — so the rings are the difference between fitting one lens and fitting the bag.

Every Desview unit reviewed here

  • Field monitors

    Desview R5II, 5.5 inches, 800 nits, 3D LUT by USB stick

    5.5 inches, touchscreen · 1920 by 1080, 401 PPI, 1000:1, 16:9, 178° viewing, Rec.709 · 800 nits · 4K HDMI IN AND OUT at 30 Hz, 3.5 mm headphone socket · full-screen waveform, histogram, vectorscope, false colour, peaking focus assist and zoom · 3D LUT files imported over USB with a SUPPLIED U-DISK · NP-F550/750/970 or E6 batteries, 7-24 V DC in, 8 V DC OUT to power the camera through a dummy battery · sun hood included · one-year warranty stated

    A 5.5-inch 800-nit touchscreen at 401 PPI that imports lookup tables from a supplied USB stick and can feed 8 volts back into the camera.

    Best for: Log footage that has to be judged through a lookup table on a small, light monitor, on a rig where one battery should run both camera and screen.

    ≈ £139 / 149 €

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  • Teleprompters

    Desview T5, devices to 11 inches, rings 49 to 82 mm

    HD-COATED anti-glare glass, described as anti-reflective, with NO split ratio published · smartphones, tablets to 11 INCHES and DSLR cameras · ADAPTER RINGS SUPPLIED for lens threads from 49 to 82 mm · hood not described · tool-free adjustable mount, switching between landscape and portrait · BLUETOOTH REMOTE for play, pause, speed, page turn and power · free Desview app for iOS and Android · one-year warranty with lifetime technical support

    Adapter rings for every lens thread from 49 to 82 mm, an 11-inch tablet capacity and a Bluetooth remote — the prompter that fits whatever is already in the bag.

    Best for: A bag with several lenses and a full-size tablet, shooting both landscape and vertical.

    ≈ $99 / £99 / 109 €

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