@QuickHitRecord

Active area closer to center, and most importantly, any hack turning on full sensor area becomes meaningless.

LOL! They forgot to center it ;)

Sensor position:

@vitaliy_kiselev

they are "not" supposed to charge you until it ships.

It might use a crop for a little more hacked resolution. It is also low frame rate, maybe hdmi recording.

The 4k says records raw in 1080, but no bayer at 1080. Also nice hack target for frame rate and ext record. Does pocket produce raw 1080 from higher res?

Nikon J1 used Aptina s16 sensor that can do 4k 60fps. How come not in BMC.

At others: gopro black edition already does 2. 7k video mode.

Oh ok yea. Got it. That makes more sense.

Never mind, yea, it would be a f2.0. Nice!

Oh yea, I wasn't implying using the speedbooster with that lens. I just meant in general, that Computar lens would give also good DOF control, compared to using "whatever lens"+speed-booster. Should have typed it more clearly...

But that's good to know the crop is closer to 3x. Is that the right figure on the Speedbooster though? .7x of reduction? Giving you basically only a 2.3x crop (from FF-lenses) on the Pocket Cinema's sensor? That Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens would be perfect with the speed-booster. Making a very nice 25-37mm f(1.8?) zoom for wide stuff!

3.5" LCD screen in matte.

Hope this is an improvement to the usual glossy displays... Anyone think Zacuto will pop out a 3.5" screen adapter for the Z-finder?

Will that cute new steadi-cam curve suit this? Guess its all lens weight dependant. The steadi smoothee will balance an iphone 4 which clocks in at about 140grams, think a gopro is 75grams sans the case... According to BMC website the pocket cam is 355grams which may mean the merlin is more suited..

the thing with such a small and light form factor is how to stabilise and give it some feeling of weight and significance when you move it.

CMOS sensor rolling shutter skew is related to sensor readout speed. A smaller sensor readout area usually means faster readout, given the same sensor technology and the same binning.

At first I was surprised by how small of a sensor they are putting in this camera but after thinking about it a bit, I've decided the sensor size is actually pretty genius. You can use more lenses on this camera without vignetting than any other camera that I know of, while at the same time having the capability for shallow DOF with a Metabones Speedbooster if that's what you need. This means that you have a quite a bit of control over DOF, if you can afford a speedbooster and a decent number of lenses.

I'll probably sell my Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 (I've used this lens a ton and keep wanting to love it, but it's just a little too soft wide open to justify its cost, when I'm consistently stopping it down to f/1.4 or f/2), and pick up an Olympus 12mm f/2 for medium-wide angle steadicam work, and for most other things use vintage Nikon and Pentax glass with a Speedbooster. Being able to use a LANC controller is awesome for steadicam work, too.

The only thing that I think I'm going to miss having on this camera is an articulating screen. That pretty much means that I'll need to keep my field monitor.

@Tungee78 That's insane... but real nice collection now you'll be able to put it to good use. Gonna rack my lens collection as well.

This little camera changes EVERYTHING for ultra low-budget filmmaking! If it delivers on these specs, it will by leaps and bounds be the new best deal for sub-$2000 camera packages. It's going to be ideal for discrete shooting, or carrying places where any bulk is a major issue (e.g. backpacking, mountaineering, large crowds, etc). On larger productions it looks like it'll be a perfect B-cam, especially when paired with a BMCC or BMPC-4K, or as a crash cam, or to bring when location scouting.

My main concern at the announcement was rolling shutter, but looking at that video that @stip posted on page 7, it's not even that bad. Definitely nothing that a little processing couldn't fix. To me it doesn't look as bad as any DSLR I've worked with, including the GH2.

I'm going to sell my bulky GH2 rig (cine cage with handles, matte box, FF, etc) and pick this camera up as soon as I can. This time around I'm going to keep my rig minimalistic. I'll get a lightweight steadicam system, and maybe just put a Metabones Speedbooster on it for use with AI/AI-s Nikon glass (28mm f/2, 50mm f/1.2). That'll give me a Super-35 aesthetic in RAW / 10-bit PR422HQ with 13 stops DR, for $1500. I still can't quite believe it...