Thursday 11 July 2013

Its not about the (4k) camera - Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera



As lance said, its not about the bike...now in TV and movies its not all about camera either, but a good camera certainly helps.

In this pic, you see the Arri Alura 18-80 zoom lens F2.6, which if I told you was about £500....that would be the price to hire for 1 day! The full price is closer to £20,000 added to which is all manner of lens accessories. Now on the back you have the new blackmagic cinema pocket camera at a humble price of £750 ($1000).

It has  13 stops of dynamic range and lossless recording (compressed) to SD card in Apple ProRes, lossless compressed or CinemaDNG RAW capture and active Micro Four Thirds lens mount.

Its not 4k (theres another blackmagic camera for that) but it appears to offer great quality in an amazingly small package. A bit like the Go Pro Hero 3 Black Edition for grown-ups!





It supports the common Micro Four Thirds system for lenseseg Panasonic 14mm lens at f/2.5. It has a headphone jack, microphone jack, HDMI port and a LANC remote control port. The sensor is 12.48mm by 7.02mm which isn’t actually that big, smaller than even the standard Micro Four Thirds sensor. It records in full 1080p at up to 30fps. It has a 3.5-inch screen on the back with a 800×480 resolution which is pretty low. But then you can connect an external monitor via the HDMI port if you really wanted to.