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Hello everybody!

I am thinking about buying an external monitor, a Sony 5" unit that sticks in the hot shoe and connects to the HDMI port of the camera. I want to use it in conjonction with Live View in order to get a somewhat bigger and foldable screen as well as "peaking", a focusing help.

Does this work well enough with the Pentax K5? Has anyone here tried this?

The monitor brand is not critical, Marshall or Lilliput are other brands.

Just ordered one for my K-5, but opted for a cheap Chinese version, from LinkDelight! Hope it works welll, and if it doesn't, I'll sure tell you ASAP!

Very cool idea- looking forward to hearing about it!

It will be here in a few weeks time ;-)!

Which model are you looking at?? I checked their website.. didn't see any for Pentax, but I wasn't sure about some.. I also might be looking at a continuous LED lighting setup.. wow is there a lot of stuff.. and it's cheap so if I wreck it on the ski hill I wouldn't be out much!

Since this module connects to the camera on a standard hotshoe (physically) and a supposedly standard HDMI connector (signal), I would tend to think that a so-called Canon or Nikon model would work the same on our bodies... Am I wrong?

I got a link from a Swedish forum (Fotosidan) to a YouTube clip showing a 7" Lilliput (or similar) monitor on a Pentax K5.


It seems that it works for stills. But I don´t get with what resolution. But clips the picture in video use.

Looks like the one I ordered - but not sure if it is exactly the one I've ordered, but I think so ;-)! The resolution isn't as magnificient as some other displays available, of course - but they seem to do the work!

Sony makes displays (far more expensive) that might have better resolution, for instance!

Another way is to use the AV output from the USB using the supplied lead (the one with the yellow Phono plug), then any TV with an AV input can be used, the smaller screens for in car entertainment usually have an AV input.

One advantage is that you can have a remote camera for a bird table or anything else by using an AV Tx and Rx you can transmit the screen image around 100 Mts, I use an RF-602 flash sync with the Pentax 2.5mm remote plug as the remote trigger. There are probably HDMI Tx and Rx available, I just went with what I had.

I use the same AV output into the AV input of our Clubs projector for tutorials.

Chris

Nice.. time to do enough research for my merry x-mas to me present.

I found a good discussion on this topic in the Pentax K5 Forum on this site! I am new and so did not know of it.
Pentax K-5 Forum; Pentax K5 and external HDMI LCD screen