Portkeys BM5 IV WR

Description

Portkeys BM5 IV WR (BM5-IV-WR) is a robust 5.5-inch on-camera monitor ready for all your next creative adventures. Powered by Portkeys’ latest CINENORM OS, this compact monitor is daylight-viewable, it can be operated via its touchscreen or the four user-assignable function buttons, it comes with a full suite of professional monitoring tools, and it has the capability to control your camera wired or wirelessly.

The housing of the BM5IV WR is entirely made of rugged aluminum housing. It has thin bevels around the screen and features a toughened glass in front of the display. With a weight of only 358g/12.62oz (without battery), it won’t add much poundage to your camera rig.

Daylight-Viewable 2000nits Full HD Screen

No matter if you’re shooting indoors or outdoors, the Portkeys BM5IV WR is daylight-viewable with a high brightness of 2,000 nits. The 10-bit (8+2 FRC) panel makes color reproduction more accurate with a rich level of color details and no color banding. This 5.5-inch monitor has a FullHD 1920 x 1080 resolution, a large 178° viewing angle, and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.

The monitor comes factory color-calibrated, but if needed over time, you can use an X-Rite color probe to create a calibration 3D LUT.

Indeed, accurate color reproduction with rich color details and no color banding has never been easier to achieve with the superb 10-bit (8+2 FRC) panel. Lastly, these 5.5-inch monitors have a FullHD 1920 x 1080 resolution, a large 178° viewing angle, and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.

SDI & HDMI Field Monitor for Professional Filmmaking

The Portkeys BM5IV WR is a versatile on-camera monitor designed for professional filmmakers and content creators. It features multiple video input and output ports, including two HDMI input and output ports that can take resolutions up to 4K DCI at 60P.

Also, there are 3G-SDI input and output ports that support resolutions up to 1080P60. The SDI video output can output a clean video feed, but it can also output the image with a 3D LUT and peaking if needed. The BM5IV WR can be placed anywhere you need in the video signal chain with HDMI cross-conversion.

Thanks to the two video input ports, you can view two different video signals simultaneously with multiple different viewing modes, including picture-in-picture mode, dual horizontal, dual vertical, left horizontal/right vertical, and left vertical/right horizontal.

Professional Monitoring Tools for Creators

The Portkeys BM5IV WR is the perfect companion for directors, cinematographers, directors of photography, focus pullers, and filmmakers with all the monitoring features you can expect from a professional on-camera monitor, including:

• Exposure: Zebra, False Color, ARRI False Color, LOG False Color, and user-defined mode. A high-precision Waveform that can be displayed full-screen. Waveform SDI output is also possible. Histogram and Zebra tools are also available.
• Image analysis: with Waveform, Luma and RGB Waveforms, Vectorscope, Luma and RGB Histograms, and Audio Meters, you can judge your exposure and white balance parameters with ultimate confidence.
• Focus: nailing focus has never been easier, thanks to the new Peaking algorithm. Grayscale, Color, and Edge enhance modes are also available, as well as a Zooming feature.
• Color: 3D LUT monitoring and 3D LUT SDI output. Users can load custom LUTs via the USB port at the bottom of the monitor and the included USB key. An HDR (HLG) mode is also available.
• Framing and Image Monitoring: precisely frame your shots with multiple tools, including framing guides, grids, crosshair, check field, rectangle crop, aspects. Also, the monitors support anamorphic image de-squeeze with all the standard ratios (1.33x, 1.5x, 2.0x) and the possibility of entering a custom aspect ratio of 0.25 to 4.0x. Lastly, the Image Capture feature allows you to take a snapshot of the HDMI or SDI video input and save it to the monitor’s memory. Then, you can recall the image and adjust its transparency/opacity with the Image Overlay feature.
• Monitor Adjustments: you can adjust the sharpness, chroma, backlight, tint, and color temperature. Users can also load a 3D calibration LUT via the USB port.

Advanced Wired & Wireless Camera Control (Sony, Canon, RED, ARRI, BMD, ZCAM)

On top of all the professional monitoring features, the Portkeys BM5IV WR is also capable of controlling more than 80 cameras from eight different brands wired/wirelessly, including:

• • RED DSMC2 and KOMODO, KOMODO-X, V-RAPTOR, and V-RAPTOR XL cinema cameras: the BM5 IV WR is RED Approved and can connect wirelessly to KOMODO/V-RAPTOR series cameras. You can change your camera settings directly from the monitor and even touch to focus.
  • Wireless control of the ARRI Alexa Mini cinema camera.
  • Wireless control of the Nikon Z8 and Z9 mirrorless cameras.

Next-Gen CINENORM OS for Monitor Control

The Portkeys BM5IV WR is powered by CINENORM OS, a new operating system that has been entirely redesigned from the ground up.

CINENORM OS is now based around a new custom page system. There are seven custom pages where your favorite monitoring tools can be added and stored. With a simple swipe to the side, switching from exposure to focusing to framing tools has never been easier. Your monitor settings can be saved on a USB stick, so you can import and load your user profile to any Portkeys monitor running CINENORM OS and get up and running within seconds.

All monitor tools have now been categorized into six categories: exposure, focus, waveform, monitoring, color mixing, and dual screen. This categorization makes searching, finding, and adding tools to each page faster without browsing all of the 25+ monitoring tools.

CINENORM OS also integrates multiple camera control improvements, including:

• Fan adjustment: even if Portkeys monitors are relatively quiet, sound on set can be crucial. When a compatible camera is connected to a Portkeys monitor running CINENORM OS, the fan of the monitor will slow down to its lowest settings to reduce noise on set.
• REC button: it is now possible to adjust the position of the REC button to the lower left, middle, or right.
• REC trigger tools: when pressing record, one or multiple monitoring tools can be turned on automatically, such as peaking, zebra, or waveform, for example.
• Function button assignment: you can now assign camera control settings to the F1-F4 physical buttons. This feature is handy to quickly recall an ISO, white balance, or aperture setting with one button press.

A new monitor status bar allows you to clearly see the device connection, WiFi and Bluetooth switches, video input signal status, battery information, and panel calibration.