Onboard LCD Touchscreen

This section describes the structure and layout of the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Onboard LCD touchscreen. Advanced GUI menu controls enable convenient access to menus, camera features, and critical camera information.

NOTE: After 1 hour of inactivity, the touchscreen will go to sleep. Tap the touchscreen or touch any button to wake the touchscreen. The touchscreen will not sleep while the camera is recording.

You can configure the Onboard LCD Touchscreen to initially display the Preview page or the User Pages (refer to Onboard LCD for more information).

The Onboard LCD Touchscreen Preview page contains the following features:

Status Bar

The Status Bar contains the button for displaying the Preview page and Menu page. It also contains status icons for various camera settings and inputs.

When you tap the Preview/Menu toggle button (RED logo), the camera toggles the display between the Menu page and the Preview page (or User Pages):

When you tap the Status bar icons the Status Page displays:

Exposure

The Exposure section of the Onboard LCD Preview page displays the RGB exposure levels for the camera.

Exposure
Meter

Overexposed

Example

Underexposed

Example

Balanced

Example

RGB Exposure displays the pixel exposure quantity of the separate RGB channels and indicates when a channel is underexposed or overexposed. This meter measures the raw image data regardless of the ISO and LUT settings.

The top and bottom RGB lights illuminate when a small number of pixels on the sensor are overexposed or underexposed. This indicates that a small bright or dark area is in the image.

The level bars show the levels of overexposed and underexposed RGB pixels on the sensor. Adjust the settings on the camera to compensate.

Tap the Exposure section to toggle between this display and the Monitoring Tools page display.

Media / Histogram

	The Media section of the Onboard LCD Preview page displays the Timecode or Edgecode, clip ID, clip duration, resolution/format, and frame rate for the camera. Tap the Media section to toggle between this display and the Histogram display.
	The Histogram section of the Onboard LCD Preview page displays the image color histogram. Tap this area to toggle between this display and the Media display. For more information, refer to Histogram.

Audio

The Audio section of the Onboard LCD Preview page displays the audio levels for the camera. Tap the Audio section to toggle between this display and the Audio Tools display.

The Audio VU meters display the audio levels in decibel (dB) for the selected channels. Refer to the Audio / TC Menu section for more information about the audio channels.

In this example, channel 2 displays the VU meter clipping at maximum dB.

Camera Designation and REC Button

The Camera Designation and Record button on the Onboard LCD touchscreen Preview page displays the camera letter assigned to the camera (refer to Slate and Camera ID). You can tap this area to start pre-recording, and to start and stop recording.

Pre-recording:		Recording:

Quick Settings

The Quick Settings section of the Onboard LCD touchscreen displays the Quick Settings buttons for changing the most often used camera settings. These settings include ND (when present), Recording Frame Rate, ISO, IRIS (refer to Lens), Shutter, and White Balance.

Tap on a Quick Setting button to change the settings.

Swipe the setting left or right to make a selection.

Tap Edit to manually enter a value.

Tap List to manage which values display in this tool.

Tap on the Quick Setting button to close the selection slider.

Tap and hold the Shutter button to quickly toggle between Time and Angle settings.

Tap and hold the White Balance (WB) button to quickly switch between Kelvin and Presets.

Button Navigation

Pressing the Menu button next to the Onboard LCD touchscreen opens the main menu page. You can select the desired menu items by using the Up, Down, and Select (SEL) buttons. You can set the SEL button mode to the Function mode (FN), which allows you to cycle through the top settings of an SDI-connected monitor overlay (refer to Onboard LCD and SDI for more information).

Pressing the Menu button also navigates backwards (BACK) from submenus in the menu tree.

Pressing the Up arrow and the Down arrow simultaneously locks/unlocks the touchscreen and the menu buttons. The Lock icon in the Status bar displays the lock status. The REC button is not locked and it functions normally.

Pressing the Playback button starts and stops playback (refer to Playback for more information).

Preview Page		User Pages		Menu Page