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2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
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  • plainJaneplainJane

    Anyone actually used the 14-42mm PZ lens on the Pocket yet?

    Wondering how its gonna work cause the focus and zoom is a separate lever right? on the the lens.

    I want to buy it but wondering how it will work in practice.

  • Illusionist_FilmsIllusionist_Films

    Teaser for a short movie we will shoot in august.

    The movie will be a bigger production with a total of 20 professional actors, some of them known from german television. It's a dialogue driven, multilingual mafia story with an estimated length of 18 minutes. Cinematography will be done on two BMPCCs as A-cam, maybe a GH4 for HFR and some GH2s for B-Roll. As we are filmstudents our budget is very low, so please support us on startnext if you like the project. Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions.

  • _gl_gl

    @tinyrobot good points especially re. storage, but I have special requirements as I shoot 3D. The very small size of the Pocket camera body (and the shallow grip) allows two lenses to get closer to each other. Cost and ultra-compact light hand-held rigs are another plus.

    Maybe 4K is overkill for SD cards, but 2.5k would be an interesting compromise and would give leeway for resolution loss from post-stabilisation, lens distortion correction & 3D cropping & alignment.

  • tinyrobottinyrobot

    @_gl You must not have a bmpcc already now. I would love higher resolution and faster frame rate, but they have to fix their current cameras before they start on new ones.

    Anyways, can you imagine all the money you'll have to spend on SD cards for a pocket camera that does 4K? Might as well spend that money on a Kini Mini. Get what you need right now instead of waiting for the perfect camera.

  • _gl_gl

    Have there been any rumblings on a v2 Pocket? I'm hoping for 2.5K-4K resolution with OLPF.

  • last_SHIFTlast_SHIFT

    Great that the PZ lens is getting some love - by far my favorite compact zoom for MFT. That OIS for non-switch lenses is huge.

  • brunoalmeidabrunoalmeida

    I will be waiting for the for the official release, should be a matter of days.

  • manstokmanstok

    Uninstall old camera utility version first...

  • manstokmanstok

    I downloaded here:

    http://drivers.softpedia.com/downloadTag/BlackMagic+Firmware+1.8

  • brunoalmeidabrunoalmeida

    Not a official release I believe, no way to find the new firmware files. Anyone already installed it?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

    • Updated user interface
    • Improved performance when recording using internal microphones
    • Improved instances where a grid-like pattern may occur in some flare highlights
    • General improvements in autofocus with active MFT lenses
    • Adds supports for stabilization in MFT lenses without physical O.I.S switches
    • Improved support for Sigma MFT lenses
    • Improved support for Lumix 12-42mm PZ lens
    • Improved support for Olympus 60mm f/2.8 MFT lens
    • Iris setting is retained when switching between camera recording and clip playback

    Check Blackmagic Camera Utility 1.8 on BM site.

  • kurt10kurt10

    The 2014 release of Premiere Pro CC enables you to work with the vast majority of formats natively — including 4K, 5K and 6K RED media, XAVC, ProRes, and DNxHD — without transcoding or file rewrapping. Premiere Pro recently added support for Sony SStP and Canon RAW, and significantly expanded support for CinemaDNG formats.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/video-formats.html?set=premiere-pro--whats-new--2014-06

  • cyklacykla

    Hello, this is the trailer of my new short-film using a pocket with RAW, Davinci for CC, Premiere & AfterEffects. Shot on may in Lausanne, Switzerland. I hope you will enjoy it!

  • makismakis

    multicoated b@w are better than hoya, from my experience. Less reflections. But multicoated b@w are more expensive than hoya...

  • yiannis_zachyiannis_zach

    Thank you @daisuke !

  • daisukedaisuke

    Hoya. You'll regret it down the road if you go for anything less.

  • yiannis_zachyiannis_zach

    Guys, I need help: I'm about to purchase an IR-UV filter for my BMPCC, but not sure which one. The Hoya seems ok, but bit expensive. The B&W cost little less, but have heard that vignettes with wide angle lenses, as it has thinner glass. What about the Fujiyama or the Marumi, as they are much cheaper? Thanks!

  • tinyrobottinyrobot

    @red_pill I download the file and watched it and I can see this time you edited to the beats. Must have been the Vimeo player.

  • red_pillred_pill

    Thanks @tinyrobot, actually I've been very careful to match the beats, could it be a problem of you player? Anyway most of the clips were shoot handheld, in others I used a konova slider and my steadycam.

    @jrd actually all of the clips were converted to BMD film. Some of them were graded from scratch, others starting from Blackmagic-Rec709 LUT (when I knew I would just pump contrast/saturation up).

  • jrdjrd

    @red_pill

    The contrast and saturation suggest that whatever color grading you did, there was no prior clip conversion to BMD Film log mode. Is that right?

  • MRfannyMRfanny

    i dunno, the edit hit the beats pretty well for me.

  • tinyrobottinyrobot

    @red_pill Can you tell us what kind of rigs you are using?

    I think there are no flaws in the shooting as it is technically well done but the problem is with the edit where the image must match with the beats of the track better.

  • RodColeRodCole

    @alfaerik

    Thanks for the explanation. I understand perfectly.

  • red_pillred_pill

    This is my first experiment shooting raw with my BMPCC. Any feedback is welcome, I'm looking for suggestions to use all power of raw because as a beginner I feel like I didn't use its full potential.

  • valdi99valdi99

    pinger007 - audio is out of sync. Is it Bmpcc or Vimeo or editing?

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