@Sangye great find..

...change of tone to a serious question ....any ideas who will make a loupe that fits the 3.5" screen ?

Also ...about those 16mm lenses from the netherlands.....simple 16mm lenses might vignette on the s16 sized sensor. I'd wait for some tests before I jumped .

Forget the Pocket Cam... Just preordered the Black Magic Personal 4K Keychain Cinema Camera..... Although the rattling keys might interfere with sound aquisition!

Does anybody know if the metabones speed booster M/43 will mount EOS lenses?

So all these kind of lenses would work well on the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera?

http://mkoptics.net/m/index.php?cPath=22

@ Shaveblog Most of us here have a nice collection of lens already for MFT and this body gives us even more options and some more abilities.. I work as a internal media shop in a larger company , we don't get huge budgets and a $999 body we can easily pass through the bean counters far easier than a 4k or 13k camera body.. if we need that well rent it or hire it out.

We have a GoPro and use it maybe 3 times a year .. but its the tool we need for those particular shots.. it is a tool to get what we need done.. nothing more nothing less. This camera is no different, It is yet another tool to get the job done and hopefully it will meet the expectations BMD has put out for this camera. I can see a number of uses for this new body mainly because of the smaller sensor size and DR the camera is stated to have.. you may not need these things, but others do. We shall see how people are using these once it is out in the wild.

@Shaveblog +1. Not a really good option for run-n-gun style.

I was hoping BM Pocket fever kills GH3 demand so that I can pick up GH3 at dirt cheap price. Oh well you just killed it. I hate you.

Just Pre-Ordered @ B&H from @Vitaliy_Kiselev link looking forward for more updates..

@Shaveblog Your attitude made an otherwise misleading rant, somewhat enjoyable.

You seem to be critiquing this camera on two fronts: the sensor size, and its inability to shoot higher resolution stills. A "real" cinema camera in a professional environment should not need to shoot stills. The advent of DSLR filmmaking seems to have brought with it some expectation that one camera should be capable of both high-quality still photography and high-quality video, but that's an artifact of a specific market development, and not something that I or many others take for granted. I do not generally shoot stills, and when I do, I make sure that I have a DSLR with me. Yes, one camera that can do both well is a nice idea. That is not what this camera is, no one is saying that it is, so forget about it if that's a higher priority to you than exceptional video quality.

Regarding the sensor size. Super-16 is a well established format, with a history far longer than your own as a self-styled pundit on internet forums. Again, the advent of DSLR filmmaking has given a lot of people a false understanding of the relationship between lens families and sensor sizes, most evident in the endless misinformation about "crop factors", "full frame", etc.

I'm so tired of dealing with clients and colleagues who don't understand that lenses are designed and optimized for specific film back / sensor sizes. To complain about the "crop factor" of this camera as if it were an insurmountable limitation, is as absurd as if a large format photographer complained that his 190mm wide angle lens became a long telephoto lens when he attached it to a 5D. He's just using the wrong damn lenses. There are plenty of serious wide-angle Super-16 lenses available (e.g. ARRI/Zeiss Ultra-16 primes, Angenieux zooms). Those are obviously out of reach for most people that will buy this camera, but there are plenty of other Super-16mm lenses that are not. Moreover, the MFT version of Metabones' Speedbooster, which is coming out this month, will effectively create many more wide-angle lenses.

Do not think of this camera as a DSLR that is well suited for standard DSLR lenses. Think of it as a digital Super-16mm cinema camera. Be grateful that Metabones is making some of those DSLR lenses more useful, but definitely count on using Super-16mm and MFT lenses primarily.

@GravitateMediaGroup @shaveblog Just like Gravitate said it may not be the camera for "you" having all that power in a pocket size cam is amazing, I call that tech marvel.. So many people want more, more DOF to be honest I don't know the reason why 16mm is more than enough I guess it's all a preference thing just saying.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev I hear you VK but this time around I hope they get things right..

@Shaveblog I hear you. Finally came to my senses and am going to invest in GH3 or NEX5/6/7 instead. My clients couldn't care less about 13 stops.

I look at this camera and I see a product aimed completely past the bulk of the posters here. It is not an all-purpose camera for high quality stills and stealth prosumer filmic video right off the card. It is essentially a Pro GoPro minus the fisheye and ultrawide FOV. That's what BM's demographic wants, and that's what they're getting. It's a niche pro camera targeted at a specific type of user and a specific type of shot and a specific workflow, and from what I've seen almost nobody here fits that bill including me. I have zero interest in this camera aside from casual curiosity about when some of its tech might trickle down to all-arounders I would actually have use for.

Stills? Forget it. Yes you can pull a 2MP frame and call it a still, but your phone takes better stills than this thing no matter what lens you stick on it. A frame grab would be appropriate within the context of a 1080p video e.g. a title frame but as a "still" photo you'd want to share/print, no.

3X crop means this camera is an even bigger bitch than m43 to find usable handheld glass which is how 99% here shoot and don't give me that nonsense about shooting your feature or spec rap video or festival short for the Euro market, the majority here seem to be along the lines of, well, me, who owns tripods sure but mostly shoots handheld with fast wide-to-normal glass. The handful who fall outside this group, save it, we know you're real filmmakers, OK? That one where you shot your new car and we could see your goofy reflection as you jabbered on about god only knows, that was genius stuff. Art even. So you get a free pass. The rest of us who just about manage with the Lumix 14mm and the SLR 12mm will find that those lenses are basically where the BM pocket cam starts looking wider than tele, and if you want to go wide you'll need to experiment and buy a bunch of weird eBay CCTV c-mounts till you find a decent 8mm that doesn't suck too much, or drop a thou on the Pana 7-14mm, or I don't know, wait for Metabones to promise you a BM-compatible SpeedBooster is on its way so find a comfy chair because you're going to be waiting in that chair till the nurse comes around with your pills and some apple sauce.

I try not to extrapolate my own specific needs/wants to the overall chitchat here because everyone's different and that's special etc. But really, I think the cartwheels and streamers are a bit premature and probably even uncalled for. The real hot tamale is 4K for $4K, but that's too rich for everyone's blood here so it's a non-story. The unicorn for a grand instead of buying a boring old GH3 (fail! it's already months old!) is what gets you all hot and bothered, I know. I understand. But think about it some more before you jerk your cursor over to B&H for a pre-order. As an adjunct to real cams in a pro environment, sure. For the average prosumer run'n'gun chucklefuck with one cam and big dreams, this thing's a grand down the toilet.