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Ethics statement: Zacuto are website affiliates of mine, in fact one of the very first. Steve Weiss, the co-owner is a good friend of many years whom I co-host the web series “Critics” with. Whilst Zacuto do not pay to have banners or adverts on my site, these are click through affiliate links where I get a small percentage of any sales generated from them at no extra cost to the customer. These affiliate links help keep the website going. I very occasionally post about\u00a0their products, the last time was for the Gratical HD back in January. \u00a0For more please visit my ethics statement.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I did a review of the Gratical EVF back in January.<\/a> I had used it during the filming of the last episode of “The Wonder List” for CNN on my FS7, and I absolutely adored it. Critical focus and exposure were nailed when using it. The display is a crystal clear micro OLED with gorgeous optics giving a huge and clear image in front of your eye. The scopes, which are below the video image so don’t get in the way, are the best I have seen on a monitoring device. Waveform, histogram and vectorscope all there at the same time.<\/p>\n

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The question is often asked to me, “monitor or EVF?” That’s a tough one, I don’t want to choose because I use both. When shooting handheld it’s always using an EVF. For interviews or beauty shots, I love a nice monitor. Now the Gratical is an EVF only. It doesn’t flip up like their old EVF, if it did the screen would be very very small indeed! That’s the micro OLED and Zacuto’s website describes it better than I can!<\/p>\n

“The Gratical EVF has 5.4 million pixels on a 0.61\u201d diagonal screen no bigger than the size of your thumbnail. This EVF supports high pixel density with unparalleled resolution, true blacks, gamma and contrast range. With Micro-OLED screens, each pixel is lit individually so that when one is turned off there is true black. This makes for a wider contrast range and more vibrant colors for a vivid, enhanced picture. And with a full display electronic viewfinder resolution of 1280\u00d71024 you know you\u2019re getting the best picture possible.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n