Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

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After getting familiar with the physical features, we powered on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera to look over the user interface and settings menus.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera – Workflow | Blackmagic Design

What’s also interesting is that the manual electronic focus on MFT lenses requires a very long turn of the focus ring by contrast to, for example, the GH5. The 58mm lens cap easily snaps on to protect your camera’s lens from scratches, dust, moisture, and fingerprints when the camera isnot inuse. In this example, thevideographer took advantage of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera’s 6K Super35 image sensor, Canon EF lenses, and dual native ISO to record with shallow depth of field. Blackmagic OS is atrue modern operating system where all camera features run independently for smoother control, plus the camera powers on virtually instantly.

Bigger than anything you’ll get from a competing device from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic or Sony, for video, it’s a blessing to have a 16:9 aspect ratio display.

A closer look at the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Youcan even mount the media cards on your computer and start editing directly from them using the included DaVinci Resolve Studiosoftware! Pocket Cinema Camera has the professional features you need for feature film, television programming and documentaries, however now these same features can be used to revolutionize other types of work such as blog videos, YouTube content and more.

The variable ND filters together with the zebra stripes made adjusting exposure a snap and the zoom lens allowed us greater flexibility in tripod placement and framing. This means anyone looking for an ‘out of the camera, onto YouTube workflow’, this probably isn’t it, even though you do have a number of recording formats that help out with this. If you’re afashion photographer, the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K models with EFlens mount is perfect for use on the runway or outdoors on alifestyle shoot. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera records using standard open file formats so you don’t have to waste time transcoding media. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to flex your post processing muscles and make the footage look exactly like you want it to, you have maximum flexibility.

Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K Memory Card Slot

Ahigh speed external disk allows shooting 6K in the highest constant quality 12-bit Blackmagic RAW in the Q0 setting or at high frame rates. Both cameras (in large part due to their fantastic sensors) deliver really organic/filmic images, with a depth of field and FOV consistent with true 16mm motion picture film. Because of the high dynamic range, detail from external advertising outside the building was visible through the windows, so we handled this by blowing out the windows during color grading. We found when we relied on the display exclusively when setting exposure, we had a tendency to overexpose slightly, so if you’re anything like us, underexposing by half a stop should save your highlights.Shooting using Blackmagic RAW 8:1 and 12:1 created images far better than DSLR video in extremely small files. The high bitrate ProRes codec provided excellent image quality of quickly moving water, and shots taken at 1600 ISO didn’t produce much visible noise. Digital film cameras shoot logarithmic colorspace to preserve the dynamic range, which is great for later post production, however when these files are viewed on amonitor they can look flat and washed out. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but haven’t really been able to pull the trigger until now. Adjusting contrast, or the tonal range of an image, can make different parts of the image stand out.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera | Blackmagic Design

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera features an innovative and high speed USB-C Expansion Port that operates at up to 5Gb/s. Theproject was shot at 24 frames per second and the off-speed button allowed for the DOP to quickly switch to higher frame rates to capture exercise in slow motion. Not to mention, the reduced sensor size allows the camera’s body to remain significantly smaller – likely due to the decreased risk of overheating – which is key consideration too. After meandering through the campus for about an hour, our battery was already down to 21 percent, so we decided to head back home and see what we could do with the footage we had captured. You can even control the camera remotely via Bluetooth to start and stop recording as needed and to change settings which means you can shoot in dangerous situations without having to be too close.Inside the box you are greeted with a manual, an SD card, a small wrist strap, an EN-EL20 battery, a 12V AC adapter for charging and power, and of course, the actual Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with a lens cap. Overall, the design is simple, yet elegant, and shows off Blackmagic Design’s ability to cram a lot of power and features into such a small package. In turn, if your needs must rely on continuous autofocus, like us, then the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K won’t deliver that - Canon is still ahead of the pack here. This should be addressable in a software update, and we really hope Blackmagic is able to do something about it.