For two years in a row now, Blackmagic Design has kicked off the NAB Show in Las Vegas with a bang. For NAB 2025, Blackmagic Design announced the PYXIS 12K, a promising large-format box camera that combines a full-frame 12K RGBW sensor with the versatile design of the PYXIS camera.Last year, at the start of NAB 2024, Blackmagic Design also kicked things off with the announcement of the original PYXIS 6K camera and—perhaps even more significantly—with the URSA Cine. With 12K and 17K versions, the URSA Cine is the perfect LF cinema camera for those who want to capture the heart of their story with a true cinematic look and feel.We’ve covered the URSA Cine quite a bit since its announcement, but there’s been no voice more enthusiastic and informative about the URSA Cine than the great Shane Hurlbut, ASC. At NAB 2025, we sat down to chat with Hurlbut to pick his brain on his favorite parts of the URSA Cine and explore his insights into why this might be one of the best—and perhaps most important—cinema cameras ever. See on Instagram NFS: Thanks for chatting with us, Shane! We’re here at the Blackmagic Design booth at NAB, and we’re talking about the new Blackmagic URSA Cine. We know you’re a big fan of this new camera, and we’re curious if you’ll share just what about this new LF excites you the most.Shane Hurlbut: So many times, Blackmagic has sent me their cameras in the past, and most of...
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