Getting Ready For HDNA... High Definition Photographic Display!
High Definition Photographic Displays
One of the vexxing issues that some photographers deal with is the lack of parity, when it comes to trying to convey the sense, or the experience of what they have captured and/or created, to their audience. Granted, an 8x10 print is nice, using one of the readily available consumer photo printers, like the Canon Pixma photo printers or perhaps, one of the Epson Stylus photo printers. For those who can afford a little bit more, an 10x13 or 13x19 print is better. Even more so, a 17x24 would be awesome, but one of those wall dwarfing prints from a 72" wide format printer, would be staggering... but then again, so would the price!
What if you didn't want to go the paper route? Say... you wanted to show off your creative works at home or in a studio for a potential client, but you still wanted to convey that sense of space and presence? Time for some HDMI enabled high definition televisions and displays!
This is made more and more accessible with new cameras coming out, like the Sony Alpha 700, Nikon D300, Nikon D3, Canon 1D MKIII and Canon 1Ds MKIII.
The Path Towards Making An Impression : HDMI
A water loving Floridian native, considering coming up for a stroll and encountering me wielding a Maxxum 7D equipped with a 70-210mm lens.
The new cameras coming out these days, are employing HDMI instead of the older and less accurate, "tv out". HDMI, or the High Definition Multimedia Interface, is a means to get extremely accurate color, timing, and massive quantities of information between the editing equipment and the studio displays. In the world of photography, what that translates into, is a large display that is color corrected, incredibly high resolution, and provides a reliable means of conveying what you have caught, in-camera, onto the large screen for others to enjoy.
The truth of the matter is, if you've bought an LCD display or flatscreen HDTV in the recent months and it was manufactured within the last year or two, your display may already have an HDMI port, in addition to the usual ports. Definitely worth checking out. If, like me, you bought one a little while ago longer, it might only have the usual ports and a DVI port. No problem, they make HDMI-to-DVI cables.
What The Heck is HDNA Then!?
A local waterfall, photographed during the day, in California.
HDNA is a marketing term that Sony came up with to market their line of High Definition products, from camcorders, DVR(s), to their high end and high quality Sony Bravia displays. It's of personal interest to me, since I intend to become an owner of a Sony Alpha 700, which will have HDMI output capabilities and when coupled with a Sony Bravia display, the display will transition to a display mode, which will render static images from cameras with greater stability and clarity. To me, that means I will be significantly happier showing it off in my living room.
Of course, owners of the Nikon D300, Nikon D3, Canon 1D MKIII or Canon 1Ds MKIII will likewise be able to make use of HDMI enabled displays, like the Sony Bravia line of displays.
To anyone else, it means that when you are looking for an HDMI enabled display and have the intention of displaying non-moving photographs on it, you will want to know whether the display you are buying will display the photograph in a pleasing manner, which lives up to the image that you had actually captured.
I've seen standard TV out type displays from cameras and other devices and have typically found them wanting. Because of the flipping back and forth of scanlines on typical televisions, it gives static photographic images the appearance of a paused video frame. Maybe just a little better, but definitely not how I would want to display my photography.
So, if you, like me, happen to be shooting with a Sony Alpha 700, or one of the others, like the Nikon D300, Nikon D3, Canon 1D MKIII or Canon 1Ds MKIII, give those Sony Bravia displays a look see. Otherwise, definitely review the look and feel of your images on the displays you intend on purchasing.
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