Hollyland Pyro 7 and Pyro S review; now make a film because all you have

Cons of Pyro 7 and Pyro S

✓ Should have one more mounting option in the transmitter and receiver.

✓ Antennas are supposed to be more expanded in size.

✓Transmitters and receivers video transmission is 4K but it's downscale to 1080p during streaming with Pyro 7 monitor.

It is part of the new Pyro series of Wireless transmitters and receivers from Hollyland. While the Pyro S and Pyro H are both great. I think the Pyro 7 is the most exciting in the new series of products.

When I first looked it out of the box I was instantly impressed with the size and the build quality of this Monitor. Once I turned it on I got even more excited because the display is absolutely gorgeous.

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Hollyland Pyro 7 hits 1200 nits of peak brightness that gets plenty bright and you can use it even in outdoor scenarios (Hollyland includes a sun hood also for this monitor's purpose of perfect outdoor viewing).

Its build quality on this thing is insane. Pyro S is made of a Magnesium Aluminum alloy which makes it affordable lightweight but really sturdy. It more than holds up for my kind of use cases.

Let's talk about the physical features of this Monitor.

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It has a physical on-off switch which I really appreciate on a monitor like this because you are not going to be pressing a button and accidentally missing everything up.

It also has an indicator that enables you to instantly see if the monitor is on or off, based on the red and green indicators.

We have two custom function buttons on the top which you can change the settings of your choice. One of the buttons is smooth and the other is slightly indented so you don't need to look at the buttons to know which one you're pressing.

There are corner screws on each side as well as the bottom which gives you plenty of mounting options.

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It's absolutely impressive for those guys who wish to switch between vertical to horizontal shooting such as a monitor that can adapt to any situation.

On the back of the monitor, we have all of the essential ports. We are getting D.C-in, SDI in and out, HDMI in and out, a 3.5 mm audio jack for audio monitoring, and a U.S.B - C port.

It's supposed to be so nice having I.O. on the back of the monitor because it usually remains on the side. It's a little bit annoying that cabling on the monitor side but the Hollyland Pyro 7 allows you to connect all cables just back of the monitor which means a cleaner setup and way more easily accessible.

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It's really nice that Hollyland Pyro 7 offers both SDI and HDMI which makes the whole thing more versatile.

Suppose you have a Sony Alpha shooter which means you need HDMI, and this monitor has this. It can handle any camera because of has both SDI and HDMI ports. I think that makes this much more valuable.

On the back of the monitor, we can adjust the dual NP-F battery.

There is an SD card slot on the side with an included 32 GB SD card. You can use this to install your own SD card. But the really cool feature is that you can record from the monitor to the SD card.

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Hollyland Pyro 7 overview

So the Pyro 7 is not only a 7-inch monitor for your camera but it is also a 2.4GHz/5GHz dual band receiver and transmitter. Not only can you transmit the video feed to another Pyro receiver or their app but it can also receive a video feed that's transmitted from another Pyro device.

It's auto-connect feature

Having built in transmitter and receiver into its own, Pyro 7 is manufactured with a very cool sleek design. Besides, two grips mounted onto each side make it a true director's monitor.

Why is Hollyland Pyro 7 useful

Talk about this case, there are a lot of scenarios-

These monitors can be a director's monitor and it's just really nice because it doesn't require a bunch of accessories attached to a monitor to make it wireless and it smoothly works.

Since this can also function as a transmitter, it can support up to four receivers or two receivers and two devices like a phone or app to receive the video signal allowing four people to live preview.

This also includes those four devices being four of these monitors because they're technically all receivers as well.

Now let's pay attention to a small sidenote. Something that is also kind of cool is if you have two transmitters the monitor can switch between those or have a dual view mode. If you have two cameras, you could switch between those feeds on the Pyro 7.

As far as the UI and the menu of the monitor itself, I wouldn't classify it as innovative but by all means it's very easy and simple to find your way around. Too much easy to access and allows you to find all necessary settings here.

We've got waveforms, Vector scopes, standard histograms, Zebras, false color, and Luts which are all significant modes for video streaming.

It also has probably all of the camera assist functions and tools that you'd ever need in a monitor like this.

Why should one be excited about this thing? Answering this question, I'm going to mention to you what I believe makes it useful for everybody else not just this thing and that is filming.

For a long time, I've had to use a massive long HDMI cable in order to view what my shot looks like and it just gets really annoying. Well, I'm actually using this right now. No wires and just have to figure out an attachment for a wireless transmitter. So it's really nice.

Even in professional settings if you're putting the camera somewhere, where it's going to be difficult to preview or view the shot, the Hollyland Pyro 7 monitor just makes that so much easier and faster to get those shots.

The other thing that I really love about this thing is that it's essentially just plug-and-play.

It has an auto frequency hopper and an auto-connect setting. You just turn everything on and it works.

Hollyland Pyro 7 real-world test (range and latency)

So we tested the Hollyland Pyro 7 video transmitting range outside. We still got a very strong transmission even going very far away.

We tested it also in a concert where there were so many frequencies for public cell phones and all sorts of signals could possibly interfere with the monitor. But it astonished us that the monitor performed flawlessly.

There were no hiccups, no issues. The only time hiccups were when I would change my frame rates which is understandable. Except for this, there was no disruption in the signal the whole time that I was using it.

Messed with the range, we got a similar result even with a big crowd and more kinds of buildings around.

Hollyland Pyro S overview

Now before giving you more of my thoughts on the monitor I want to talk about the Pyro S.

Both Pyro transmitter and receiver have-

• HDMI and SDI input ports.
• HDMI and SDI out ports.
• An LCD displayis  just in the center of the transmitter.
• Those transmitters can transmit in 4K resolution and receive in 4K resolution. That's pretty amazing because most transmitters right now only support 1080p. It's worth mentioning that they can only receive an output 4k transmission with the Pyro S series, if you transmit it with the Pyro 7 it does downscale to 1080p.

There are also mounting kits to adjust those transmitters on top of the camera.

Pyro S basically offers all the same functions as the monitor. Besides that, it's not a monitor. But the Pyro S supports 4K whereas the Pyro 7 only supports up to 1080P. 

So the signal you receive to the monitor is only 1080P, keep that in mind.

Now you could get the Pyro H that does everything the Pyro s does. There's (Pyro 7)just no 4K support and it only supports 1080P. I honestly would have been totally okay with Pyro H. But shout out to Hollyland, Pyro S can have the same quality placement.

When do I recommend the Pyro 7 and S

The place I will likely be using these the most is for monitoring when I'm filming myself. So if you're a content creator of some sort and want the ability to monitor yourself wirelessly, this is an amazing option.

In the professional sense though I will most definitely also be using it on production shoots. So the crew can monitor wirelessly and sure if I'm trying to pull focus, I think it's a reasonable option.

Sure there's a little latency but this is I think fairly priced considering what you're getting.

Really my biggest complaint just came to the mounting and these big antennas. These antennas probably make it more stable and have better range. But in order to mount the transmitter, I feel like either the battery is getting in the way or the antennas are.

There is only one mounting point on the transmitter and the receiver. I wish there were at least one more mounting option on this guy.

I also just got to say that the UVC function on the Pyro S, is supposed to be going to get overlooked. Now I can livestream directly from my S-52 (my camera) which is really cool. This gives you the ability to move that camera around wirelessly while you're doing a live stream. This is a super cool feature.

So the final thought is someone who is a freelancer, content creator, and camera operator Hollyland Pyro 7 is gonna be a very welcome addition to him.

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I became a huge fan of it getting focused by its ranged video transmitting, the totally wireless preview of the video, well adjusting with the main camera, 4 receivers, strong transmission signal, clean and smooth UI, software side perfection, having all the essential ports, etc.

Reviewed by: Marc Taraz Steiner, Dustin Armstrong, Chadwin Smith