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Tom Frisch
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I finally bit the bullet and bought a Nebtek HD70 for on-camera monitoring (and for future use in my yet un-built stabilizer). The picture is AWESOME- heads and toes above the Marshal 7". It's bright, and with a hood, works fine even in full sun-shine. They have an edge enhance mode that really makes pulling focus in a 85mm f1.4 nikon a snap. It has underscan, blue gun, bars, and various PAR modes (though I pretty much only use 16:9. There are multiple holes for tripod mount plates, or for other attachment methods, so it should work great on a stabilizer. The power and video i/o are in the back, and can be turned so they point sideways. It runs on 12v, or 7.2v through a smaller connector. It's got an all metal case, feels quite tough, and has BNCs w/ loop-through. I paid just under $2k for it.
Now the bad-
I got it with the Panasonic battery adaptor (I have an HVX200) and my non-panasonic brand batteries didn't work until I added a few strips of gaff tape to the battery mount to ensure contact with the electrical connectors. Nebtek said that both the adaptor and the off-brand batteries are made from molds of the panasonic items, and they use those molds far past when they should- thus the parts don't always fit right.
It eats batteries pretty quickly, I'm using 5600mah units, and I get about 2 hours of use out of them.
Also, when my camera is in HD mode, if I am WAY overexposing the frame, the monitor will freak out and think there is no video signal. It's not really a big deal, since you'd never actually shoot with those settings, but it's annoying when you are setting iris, or moving into a brighter area and you loose your picture till you dial back the iris. I guess I could look at it like a "feature" It's lake a hard stop for when you blow 100+ IRE.
-Tom
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