Field monitor

Camera screens are small, dim in daylight and often pointing the wrong way. A field monitor takes the feed over HDMI or SDI and puts it on something bigger and brighter, with tools the camera may not offer: focus peaking, false colour, waveform, scopes and custom LUTs so log footage looks close to graded while you shoot. Solo creators use one to check their own framing and focus from in front of the camera. The hidden costs are power, cables and weight, because a monitor needs its own batteries and adds bulk to a rig you might be carrying all day.