The DP-V3010 4K Reference Display was designed to accept 4K inputs that conform with the digital sampling structure of 4096 (H) x 2160 (V) at 24, 25, 30 and 60 frames per second with a 1.896:1 aspect ratio (SMPTE ST 2048-1:2012).
The DP-V3010 also accepts 4K inputs that conform to the alternative sampling structure 3840 (H) x 2160 (V) with a 16:9 aspect ratio at all standard frame rates up to 60P, known as ITU-R BT.2020 and SMPTE ST 2036-1:2009. This allows the DP-V3010 to be used in live 4K television productions. It can monitor live 4K motion imaging directly from camera systems that deliver real-time outputs via their 3G-SDI Quad interfaces, or it can view digital 4K recorded playback delivered from recorders via Quad 3G-SDI. The DP-V3010 can accept inputs from two separate 4K sources via eight 3G-SDI interfaces. Monitoring outputs for each are also included.
The technical baseline for a reference display is how well it reproduces a deep and accurate black level. Portrayal of a high contrast ratio is critically dependent upon this precision black level reference. Canon mobilized a number of technologies - within the display itself and in the digital image processing system - to help ensure superb black reproduction.
Wide Gamut for Rich Colors – The DP-V3010 4K Reference Display features a Canon-designed RGB LED backlight system and IPS LCD panel that reproduce a rich array of colors. The DP-V3010's color gamut encompasses the digital cinema DCI-P3 (SMPTE RP 431-2) color gamut, almost all of Adobe RGB and Pointer's real world colors, as well as accurately reproducing the color gamuts of broadcast standards such as ITU-R BT.709, SMPTE-C and EBU.
High Precision Uniformity – The DP-V3010 incorporates a newly developed high bit depth image processing engine that helps ensure ultra-precise on-screen color uniformity and brightness, enabling users to accurately monitor changes across the displayed image.
Smooth and Accurate Gradation Characteristics – A high bit depth image processing engine provides precision processing of the video components prior to conversion for the 10-bit display panel – helping to ensure highly accurate 1024 tonal gradations for each color channel that produces a smooth and accurate tonal reproduction.
The high contrast IPS LCD panel in combination with advanced digital processing empowers the DP-V3010 4K Reference Display to achieve a 2000:1 contrast ratio. This faithfully reproduces important shadow details while simultaneously reproducing highlight information. Tonal reproduction over the nominally exposed range of the image is outstanding. This high-contrast accuracy is essential for critical assessment of images during nighttime shoots and other low-light scenes that are important factors in digital cinema production.
4K represents four times the total spatial sampling of Full HDTV. Accordingly, expectations for full and accurate portrayal of picture sharpness become central to a 4K reference display. The DP-V3010 features a high resolution IPS LCD panel that helps to ensure users see every Luma nuance and color detail of a 4K image. The unique 16:10 aspect ratio of the display panel is ideal for editing tasks that include 4K motion imaging, high-resolution still-image processing, computer-graphics and VFX production work.
Collaborative working in post-production can entail a number of creative professionals viewing a single reference display, so it is important that all see precisely the same imaging attributes. By featuring an IPS LCD panel with unique polarizing and filtering film layers to help prevent changes in color and contrast, the DP-V3010 4K Reference Display enables image viewing within a wide viewing angle, top to bottom and left to right. Such technology helps minimize color and contrast shifts when viewing images at oblique angles, allowing multiple users to review image quality simultaneously.
Super 35mm single-sensor digital cinematography cameras such as the Canon EOS C500 can originate HD or 2K video of outstanding image quality. The unique parallel readout of the 4K image sensor in the EOS C500 helps avoid any debayering process and helps create pristine 2K/HD R:G:B 4:4:4 12-bit video at frame rates up to 60P. There are not many studio reference displays that can do justice to evaluating such HD/2K imagery. The DP-V3010 4K Reference Display can directly accept 12-bit RGB 2K/HD video (up to 30P) or 10-bit YCbCr (up to 60P) and internally upscale this for portrayal within the 4K sampling structure. Such upscaling faithfully reproduces the picture sharpness of the original 2K/HD source. Additionally, the associated removal of visible lines and pixels facilitates closer scrutiny of the video for critical evaluation of many other key picture attributes such as color, brightness and contrast detail.
The DP-V3010 is equipped with three types of screen scaling functions, including the new Canon Shape Tracing technology – an original shape-tracing technology that helps to ensure images scaled on the DP-V3010 will be devoid of scaling artifacts. Using the Canon Shape Tracing technology, the DP-V3010 detects the angles of hard edges and selects an appropriate interpolation to help provide smooth diagonal lines and optimal image rendering, further extending the display's application during location/studio shoots and within color-grading, DI, CGI, VFX and other post-production workflows.
The DP-V3010 4K Reference Display's Backlight Scanning with full array RGB backlight allows individual backlight areas to be partially turned off. This feature helps reduce the image-hold period inherent to LED technology while images are being displayed, and results in crisp video playback without the perception of blurring between video frames. It also enhances static image contrast ratio.
Precise Color Adjustment Prior to Shipment - In order to achieve high color uniformity, each DP-V3010 4K Reference Display undergoes a high-precision calibration process before shipping from the factory. External calibration allows users to maintain factory settings as well as make adjustments for specific display applications.
Automatic Color and Brightness Correction System - A special control system within the DP-V3010 constantly measures ambient lighting conditions, as well as internal display changes - including color temperature and brightness - to help reduce fluctuations in light levels and color, thereby helping to ensure long-term image stability and consistency.
Calibration Without a PC - Following high-precision factory alignment, the DP-V3010 can be calibrated easily and conveniently without the need for an external PC workstation. Using third-party external sensors, users can calibrate the display in accordance with viewing environment and application.
The DP-V3010 4K Reference Display can be used with any source input that complies with ACESproxy (Academy Color Encoding System, proxy encoding). The EOS C500 4K Digital Cinema Camera is capable of outputting an ACESproxy signal that can be directly connected to the DP-V3010 through the camera's HD-SDI monitor terminal