Phil Bloom's BM review is now up.

Think want you want about Mr. Bloom, but he brought it to the point. Beside his review I was impressed about the image quality of the C300 this review were shot with: very nice natural skin tones, sharp and clear image. Unfortunately the C300 is way overpriced.

I must say i love the image. The colours of the BMCC keep amazing me. To me it really feels like going to the movies. And it seems the image could be easily combined with that from a GH2.

no comments of content quality from my side to these films. German film shows the potential of dynamic range and imho it's very promising. I have no idea what is special from boxing training clip? My first thought that you could do it with a GH2 too.

In general I am not shure in my opion about daily benefit of this camera. I suppose in RAW shooting there will be a lot of follow-up cost to install a smooth RAW workflow especially for us people coming from the GH2. 1sec > 100MB means for 5min almost 40GB... you will have to hande, edit and back up these amounts. Nevertheless I am still impressed about quality

And in ProRes the lack of manual white balance, adjusting WB only in quite rough steps, no detailed ISO setting will, no higher frame rates can become a disadvantage for your daily jobs compared to a cheaper GH2 or higher priced FS 100/700. Mr. Bloom's beach clip is not suitable to jugde whether the ProRes workflow is usefull for shots I mostly do: testimonials, image short clips, technical tutorials etc.

Most attractive is the price and as my location is some hours away from next rental station I ordered one also - in addition to a FS 700 ;-)

Well just goes to show no matter what kind of gear you have - you can't polish a turd. I wouldn't jump to conclusions because of these lame examples :-)

Yeah, if I could afford it I'd grab a BMC and use it 90% of the time in ProRes mode. I'd save RAW for the tough shots that have lots of contrast, or VFX shots. Alas my bank accounts says 'not at this time.' It is excited to see the developments in this space though. :)

We need in-camera custom curve out of the box

@Vitaliy_Kiselev - as to the shutter angle, I disagree. The Alexa uses a spinning shutter and for that, I think it renders the best motion. It's shutter is adjustable. IMO, the "real" shutter beats the rolling shutter any day. I don't see them going anywhere.

@johnbrawley I made the graphs in Google Docs but the data comes from a table of values that is contained in each DNG called a linearization table. This lookup table is used in the process of "linearizing" the 12bit LOG RAW values into 16bit values although I don't actually know if Resolve uses this table itself at all. I will do some tests later this week to see what happens when I mess with the table in an image.

Anyway I used exiftool to extract the table of 4096 values from your afterglow sample DNG files but I only found two tables being used. One used for shots 1,2,3 and one used for 4,5.

To answer your question I don't think you can make a judgement about clipping in the raw based on these lookup tables, but your question does draw attention to the differences in the curves.

I was wondering if the difference in curves might come out of a method to avoid color posterisation in the highlights approaching clipping. If one RGB channel is clipping or approaching clipping before the others then you risk colored highlights which seems to be considered a bad thing although in RAW you wonder if it is something to be worried about.

Maybe the RGB channels can get out of whack due to a white balance setting. I am not sure. I have to finish this post by saying I have no idea why/how these curves work in practice; but I would like to know.

It's enough to say I would like to know more about all technical aspects of the camera. I expect the subject to be moving target - I'm sure each firmware update will be like christmas for next few years.

@Kristian_Lam Good to see you here. I was wondering if you are getting help from the Teranex eggheads for the debayering stuff? Keep up the great work. Also hope that the marketing guys aren't running the ship and are letting you get it as right as possible.

@rockroadpix

Don't see reason of tragedy. Nothing wrong about not knowing about shutter angle. The sooner this term will go into oblivion - the better.

Hey guy's great new about the BMC Grant Petty himself is projecting enabling 1080/60p, or 720/60p in camera via software update he didn't specify which one incredible stuff.. here is the video below..