SmallHD 502 Firmware 1.0 Brings Promised New Features. Available Now
Nice to see some of the features coming out for the 502. I’m actually downloading it now. Guys. I’m still working on my review! Slow down…. Not! It’s great the 1.0 update is out so soon, and these are some good ones. I hope I get a battery fuel gauge soon. Please? Here’s whats in the update.
Image Capture – example image
Menus must be closed to use. Press capture button to hide all active tools and show capture guides. Release to capture raw image (Captures JPG Images to SD card) -Will not work if no SD card is installed.
Image Overlay – example image
Load any image from the sd card and display it at varying opacity levels over your live camera feed. Also you can have overlayed image blink on and off for framing purposes
HD Waveform – example image
Luma and RGB waveform added user selectable location and size
On-Screen Audio Meters and Headphone Output – example image
Shows 2-8 channels, adjustable size and location.
Canon DSLR Scale – example image
Fill the whole screen with image from a Canon DSLR
Image Flip / Auto Image Flip – example image
Allows you to flip / mirror monitor image (by default auto rotate will be enabled)
Anamorphic De-squeeze – example image
Monitor a non-squashed image when shooting with anamorphic lenses. Selected in settings menu & applies to all pages (includes 1.33x, 1.66x, 2x)
Color Calibration LUT
Change the built-in color calibration of your monitor using your own 3D LUT file — this is very different from applying 3D LUTs to the live camera feed on multiple pages
Known bugs with Firmware 1.0:
- Anamorphic desqueeze does not interact well with image overlay or guides.
- Image capture – all images are stretched to 1920 wide.
- Exposure assist (ie. false color) Acts on Lut Data when a Lut is in use instead of raw image data
- If you use peaking and zebra at the same time, the zebra can have some false readings.
- Histogram – when incoming data is YCC, the RGB histogram display can be slightly inaccurate.
- Signal issues – Very rarely 1080p 50/59/60 through hdmi may have trouble locking on – disconnecting and then reconnecting hdmi cable should fix the problem (This can occur with 1080i signals as well from time to time).
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