This video suggests a basic cheaper alternative to buying an expensive monitor for filming with a Canon DSLR. It involves the use of a Laptop, MacBook or a desktop computer even, as a Monitor whilst shooting video. The software required to do this comes free with a Canon camera so price wise it is free. The main positive of this comes with the ability to look over the shoot from a larger monitor. However you will have a less accurate view of the true light and colour being recorded from your camera than you would with a professional video monitor. Also you would be at a disadvantage if you were filming outside with battery power and the sun putting you at a disadvantage.
Yet the main positive for this method for me still remains to be the ability to focus your camera on a much larger and more accurate screen. In fact, in this case it has a much larger advantage over most professional video monitors. But still the real question to consider here is do you want a monitor which provides a better means to focus or a monitor which gives you a more accurate color feedback? In my own experience colors tend not to come out how you want them in the raw footage anyway. It is only really in postproduction color correction process that colors are truly defined. And as long as you don’t overexpose / underexpose your footage to badly you tend to be fine.
So although this may not be the popular consensus I think that for me this may be a viable idea to look into, or at least it is worth a try.
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