The Focus 504 is SmallHD's new 5 inch on-camera monitor, and it's the one to grab when you want proper pro monitoring without hanging a brick off the top of your camera. It's built for handheld, gimbal and run and gun work, where every gram counts and you still need to nail focus and exposure.
You get a sharp 1920 x 1080 touchscreen pushing 1000 nits, so it stays readable outdoors, with Rec.709 colour so what you see is what you're actually recording. The whole thing is an anodised aluminium unibody with a raised bezel to protect the screen, and it weighs just 0.31kg (0.68lb), light enough that your gimbal won't even notice it's there.
Plugs Into Pretty Much Anything
There's full size HDMI 2.0 and 3G SDI, both in and out, with cross conversion both ways, so it'll happily sit between a mirrorless body, a cinema camera or a wireless system and pass the signal along. HDMI takes up to 4K30. There are three locking USB-C ports: the PVC port handles power in or out, DisplayPort Alt Mode video and USB data, and the other two look after camera control, accessory power, firmware updates, LUTs and screen grabs off a flash drive. A 16GB SmallHD flash drive comes in the box, plus a 3.5 mm headphone jack with metering up to 8 channels.
Power Your Way
Run it off the built in Sony L-Series battery slot, the locking 2-pin DC input (10 to 17V), or the PVC USB-C port. It only draws around 10W, so batteries go a long way.
PageOS Onboard
It runs SmallHD's PageOS, so you can build your own pages of tools and flip between them with a tap: frame guides, focus assist, peaking, false colour, zebras, waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, histogram, anamorphic de-squeeze, overlays and 3D LUTs, including LUTs passed downstream on SDI or HDMI.
Built for Rigging
Four 1/4"-20 mounting points (top, bottom, left and right) with ARRI locating pins, plus a rear joystick, a back button and two custom function buttons, mean you can mount it however suits the build and drive it without taking your eyes off the shot.
Camera Control (Coming Soon)
Integrated Wi-Fi is built in for wireless camera control. SmallHD lists compatibility for ARRI, Sony VENICE, RED DSMC2 and RED RCP2 cameras (KOMODO, DSMC3), arriving with a future firmware update.
*Camera control functionality coming soon. Licences are sold separately.
Key Specs
- Display: 4.97" IPS LCD touchscreen, 1920 x 1080, 443 PPI, 16:9, 60Hz
- Brightness: 1000 nits
- Contrast: 1000:1
- Gamut: 97% Rec.709
- Colour: 10-bit processing (8-bit panel)
- Video In: 1x 3G SDI (BNC), 1x HDMI 2.0 (full size, up to 2160p30)
- Video Out: 1x 3G SDI (BNC), 1x HDMI 2.0 (full size), cross conversion HDMI to SDI and SDI to HDMI
- USB: 3x locking USB-C (PVC port for power, video and data)
- Audio: 1x 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack, metering up to 8 channels
- Power In: Sony L-Series slot, 2-pin locking DC (10 to 17V), PVC USB-C (5 to 20V, 25W max)
- Power Out: PVC USB-C, 5V 10W max
- Consumption: 10W typical (monitor only), 35W max
- Wireless: integrated 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
- Controls: touchscreen, rear joystick, back button, 2x custom function buttons
- Mounting: 4x 1/4"-20 with ARRI locating pins
- Construction: anodised aluminium unibody
- Dimensions: 13.6 x 8.8 x 2.4cm (5.4 x 3.5 x 0.94")
- Weight: 0.31kg (0.68lb)
- Operating Temperature: 0 to 40°C
- Compliance: FCC, IC, CE, UKCA, RCM, RoHS
In the Box
- 1x SmallHD Focus 504
- 1x Focus 504 Screen Protector, Clear
- 1x SmallHD USB-A/C Flash Drive, 16GB
Want to keep the sun off it? Pair it with the Focus 504 Sunhood (17-1242).
