SmallHD has announced its new Cine 18 4K High-Bright Monitor. This is being touted as a lightweight, rugged, daylight-viewable production monitor.
The Cine 18 was designed to fill the gap between the Cine 13 and Cine 24 in the SmallHD 4K monitor line-up. Essentially it is a replacement for the 1703 P3X HD Monitor, but with significant upgrades in sharpness, resolution, and form-factor.
I previously reviewed the Cine 13 which is essentially just a smaller-sized version of the Cine 18. You can see that review here.
The Cine 18 features a lightweight aluminum-unibody chassis housing and an 18 ”edge-lit LCD screen with 4K resolution (3840 x 2160), 10-bit (8 + 2 FRC) color depth, 100% Rec. 709 coverage, 1100nits brightness, 1,000: 1 contrast ratio, 240 PPI, and a 178º viewing angle.
Cine 18 has physical dimensions of 18.4 x 12.7 x 2.5 ″ (WxHxD) and weighs 12 lbs / 5.44 kg. Just like the other Cine monitors in the range, it comes with 4x 12G / 6G / 3G / HD-SDI inputs and outputs, as well as hot-swappable power inputs, multiple accessory power points, 4x removable cheese mounting sticks, and a removable bottom cheese mounting rail for added versatility.
The PageOS software toolset offers 4K HDR waveform and scopes, Color Pipe HDR color rendering, a Monitor Calibration Wizard, and more.
Price & Availability
The SmallHD Cine 18 has a list price of 99 5999 USD.
Cine 18 Monitor Specifications:
- Screen Size: 18.4in / 46.7cm
- Bit Depth: 10-bit (8 + 2)
- Color: 100% REC. 709
- Resolution: 3840 x 2160
- Brightness: 1100nits
- Weight: 12lbs / 5.05kg
Competition
Competition primarily comes in the form of the Atomos NEON 17 ″ 4K HDR Monitor / Recorder which retails for
As far as I am aware, there isn’t another 18 ″ 4K UHD monitor that has the same feature set as the Cine 13. Atomos has the NEON 17 ″ 4K HDR Monitor / Recorder ($ 3,499 USD), but that is an HD-only display, to get the 4K UHD you need to buy the 24 ″ model which retails for 6,499.00 USD.
Flanders Scientific doesn’t make any smaller sized 4K UHD monitors. The smallest size they have available is the upcoming 31 ″ XM312U.
