The EIZO CG2700X UHD colour accurate monitor

I took delivery of my demo CG2700X Eizo monitor over the weekend and ran it through its paces; suffice to say I am pretty impressed.  

It’s a 27” IPS (so modern LCD) 3820x2160 res panel (so not full-4K) but good for TV, and notably smaller than the 31” FSIs and EIZOs so might fit on a QC desk better than the big guys.

So, first thing is to make a matching profile for the Klein K10A tri-stim probe; I've often written before how a photometer is only as good as the profile you make for it with a spectroradiometer - a CR250 in my case.

Interestingly the spectral power distribution is different from the engineering sample I had half a day with over the summer - Eizo tell me they changed the polariser for production units.

So, for calibration I profiled the display in it's native state (so no gamut imposed by the monitor, all colours as saturated as it will make them).

From that (which is 17^3 - around five thousand colours) I made a rec.709 LUT - 100Cd/m²

Rather splendidly, even though this is a brand new model, ColourSpace was able to talk to the patch generator inside.

It is a single-panel LCD so will not have the dark, inky-blacks you’re used to from a Sony HX-310 or Eizo Prominence (but you could buy a dozen of these displays for the price of one of those!).

In terms of wide-colour-gamut/HDR it has decent emulation for HLG and DolbyVision, topping out at about 550Cd/m² (unlike the full 1,000Cd/m² you expect from an Eizo Prominence or Sony HX-310). So could be used for edit/QC/ingest etc. for those standards, but probably not for final grade/mastering.

first column is 10-bit values, second column is light levels

Cages - still important for broadcast QC types; It has three sets of markers; they can be independently sized and positioned. It has presets for all the common aspect ratios and action/graphics safe areas, but you can set them as you want. You can set all line widths from one to six pixels and choose the colours independently.

I’m not sure if it could be any more flexible?! Aside from circular cages, that is!

My demo unit is safely in a flight case and you guys were on the list for offering it to for assessment; you’re welcome to have it for a few days and I will arrive with it to demo some footage.