Thebuilt in EVF/LCD on my Fuji X-T4 produce colors that are very close to the final image recorded on the card. The Shinobi on the other hand seems to add some additional contrast and saturation, making the images look a bit punchier.
Most features you might find on a higher end monitor can be found on the Shinobi, with just some rare exceptions. Some highlights include: anamorphic de-squeeze, false color, focus peaking, histogram, RGB Parade, vectorscope, waveform, zebra, and frame markers.
The three features I use most (by far), are the custom LUTs, peaking, and frame guides. All three of these are crucial to my workflow, especially the custom LUTs which were the main selling feature of this monitor.
To streamline this process, I hand picked 8 of my favorite CINECOLOR LUTs and loaded them into the monitor. This allows me to quickly toggle between different looks, and see how my lighting and composition holds up against them.
With just a single Sony L-series battery attached, the Shinobi can literally run all day. They are rated at about 12 hours of use, so on an average shoot day you may not even need to swap batteries. At most you would just do a single battery swap.
For me, the Shinobi had all the features I wanted, could produce bright images in sunlight, and was really compact and easy to use. All of that made up for it not being able to record internally and having some minor issues with color accuracy.
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Great insights! Your focus on real-world usage over technical specs aligns with my approach to gear. The lightweight build of the Atomos Shinobi for run-and-gun setups is indeed a game-changer. Thanks for sharing your practical experience.
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The screen is very easy to read at a glance, and the units of measurement for distance, speed and height can be changed between yards/metres, mph/metres/s, and feet/metres respectively. Finding the data per club in the app is easy enough, but not being able to make the swing data full page, or switch it to landscape mode is frustrating, with it being stuck in a small table you need to swipe through to see all the information.
When it captures strikes, the actual data provided seems to be quite accurate, with distance, ball speed and spin numbers being extremely similar to higher end launch monitors. I had an opportunity to set the unit up behind me while hitting with a GCQuad a few months ago, and for the most part the data was within about a +/- 2% margin, and the spin data within a couple hundred RPM.
Actually reviewing the data has recently become harder too. Previously, within a set of data, which could be sorted by a date range, year, or total, there was options to view all clubs at a time with multiple options to get details at a glance, like average carry, average total, highest carry, average spin etc, but as of the most recent app update when viewing all clubs together it just shows average carry, and you now need to click into each clubs data to see the rest of the data.
Setting up and using the unit is very straightforward, and thankfully pretty simple. I typically just take the unit out, set it up on top of the case about 5 feet away, and open and connect the app, which takes roughly 10 seconds.
Getting instant feedback on trying something new with a swing, or even just seeing big club or ball speeds when going hell for leather on a speed training session is fantastic, and the positive reinforcement of seeing actual tangible evidence cannot be understated.
Thanks - I was given one for Christmas. Haven't used it much but did recently and was impressed by the unit itself. Interestingly I went for a driver fitting yesterday and the numbers were very similar with my driver to what I had on the Voice Caddy the day before.
Like you I was extremely frustrated by the app - at least you got yours to download - I can't even access it on my phone - it says that there's already an account registered to my email, so I tried my work email and it said the same - that's impossible. I'd love to have the spin rate data but honestly don't know how much good it would do as I'd be using range balls - I don't get enough chance to play on course where I could use it and capture enough data to be accurate with a good quality ball.
While not at the same time I was fit for every club in my bag as well as the Pro VI ball. I use the chrome soft x ls on my league course. It has much softer softer greens than the club that I belong to.
Haven't used it much but did recently and was impressed by the unit itself. Interestingly I went for a driver fitting yesterday and the numbers were very similar with my driver to what I had on the Voice Caddy the day before.
Yeah, that's what I found, the actual unit itself is good, and the numbers it gives are really accurate, especially for the cost and form factor, but the sheer unwieldiness of the software and actually extracting the data makes too frustrating to really want to use much any more.
Great review, thanks for doing this! I have an SC200 that I purchased used on our B&S thread a few years ago. It has worked quite well except on wedge shots where it tends to have some challenges capturing the ball and/or correct distance. When the SC300 came out, I was curious about it and whether the price and few extra data points might be worth having. Based on yours and other reviews, I thinking I'd more likely step up into the next tier of PLM's; maybe Rapsodo? Before we moved to AZ, I was looking at a Mevo+ so I could use it in a DIY hitting bay and on the range. Now living in a golf course community with 4 courses and 3 ranges, I've shelved that... for now.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts; I had the SC300 for a while and realized that I didn't use half of the stuff it captured and all I really cared about (and usually felt was reliable) was swing speed and carry distance.
I got rid of that and found a cheap used SC200 on e b a y and I use it at the range regularly to make sure my gapping is still good.
I don't know much about the newer version but I experienced frustration similar to you when trying to collect and analyze the data and ultimately gave up.
It's great for basic stuff, is fun to use and easy to carry and the version I have is battery powered. It's relatively cheap and the distances are pretty close to the expensive LM's but if you're looking for advanced data I wouldn't rely too much on it.
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