@Tron @Oedipax, yeah, I had the same experience. Here's something (warts and all) I did in a few minutes at Ai Weiwei's forever bicycles at nuit blanche a few days ago. Vimeo compression don't do justice to the detail in the shots, but I think the tonality and feel and range of the imagine is just wonderful. More professional tests to come....

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$155 (same cost as 9-10) batteries, and it's kind of ugly - not sure if this is worth it.

In regards to the brown cast, I posted a still from the first thing I shot with this camera on the Voight 17.5 on page 112. Used the BlueJacket Lut after a couple initial adjustments and a couple more after and I thought that looked damn good in terms of color, skintone and organic feel. Much better than anything I was able to pull from my GH2 from available light. I'll admit, I was using golden hour light so that is a bit of a cheat :) I'm not sure hot to post a link like others do that take you right to the prior post. You'd think after a year and a half I'd have that figured out!

@Oedipax Great to hear that. That's the feeling I've been getting about this cam. I'll def be getting this cam for my next project. Now its really about lens choices and post-pro workflow and grading to see what type of image types are possible. Same feeling here - the camera's possibilities get you pumped up to create great content. Very cool!

@kholi

Maybe they've updated the Video display mode LUT?

Wow! I'm looking through the stuff I shot on my walk this evening. True to its name, I literally took the BMPCC paired with the 20mm pancake in my pocket, which fit, although not comfortably.

I don't know how else to say it, but those of you who've been around for a while will know what I mean - I haven't felt this excited about the way my footage is coming out since I first got my DVX100A back in the day. I suppose that means this camera has the same level of mojo as the old Panasonics. Something about the color, the pleasing quality of the noise, the way things pop and have contrast but aren't overly sharp or synthetic feeling; it's organic.

To me it's a more humble image than what I've gotten used to from the DSLR world, which I've been a big proponent of for sure, but always found the results just vaguely unsatisfying. Always a little too much sharpening, or compression, or banding, or whatever - something to remind you that while you were getting a great image out of the camera, that it wasn't quite up to the demands you were placing on it.

Anyway, this is probably just rambling to everyone else, but maybe someone can relate to what I'm getting at. Basically I'm just super happy with the image from this camera, it's compelling to me in a way that makes me want to tell stories with it, create images, and that can only be a good thing!

@MRfanny

Okay, I was going to say something about the shadows, as it's a warmer shot that's actually me moving away from blue or pure black shadows. Although I need to learn how to do that while finding gradation to pure black.

On ISO: Because you're shooting ProRes, each ISO remaps DR, so the lower you go the more it's clamped. I've always shot 800, did test with 400 and it seemed okay, but I stick to 800 for the most part.

@SuperSet, I'm using it as a starting point but really, anytime there are speculars it's kind of useless. That's why a more finessed setting would be cool, to allow some headroom for highlights to blow out if wanted. It's fine though, it's easy enough to set the aperture manually. And most of my lenses are manual anyway.

The stuff I shot today was mostly ISO 200, I forgot about the base being 800 until later on. I've got NDs so it's no big deal either way. FWIW, I was plenty happy with the 200 stuff I've looked at so far, but I guess it's clipping the dynamic range artificially?

One more thing, I really wish there was an option to assign the Slate functionality to another button (or just - sorry, Blackmagic - disable it completely). It kinda breaks my flow up to tap twice for focus enhance rather than just once (and if you forget you have to back out of the slate menu).

Any thought on how to use a proper shoulder strap with the BMPCC? This has always been a great way for me to get stable shots in a pinch, and I'd really like to figure out a way to get one to work with it for on the fly stability. The Zacuto Marauder is over $700 and not very conspicuous.

So I'm assuming you're using the auto IRIS feature to set proper exposure? I don't really want to do this so would rather control my own iris setting, hence the variable ND. You guys sticking with 800 ASA base as well? I keep reading conflicting info on this as I'd like to lower it all the way to 200 but been reading that it is bad practice.

@Oedipax You can record in Film mode while viewing Rec. 709 at the same time. Just go to playback in the menu and select Video instead of Film.

I wish the auto exposure feature had an option like the ETTR implementation in Magic Lantern to allow a certain percentage of the highlight range to blowout. It works pretty well there to allow speculars to still clip without forcing your whole image into total underexposure. Or they could put a -/+ EV setting in the menu, I guess.

Manual focusing with the LCD isn't as bad as I expected. Although at this point I've been pulling focus long enough that a lot of it is by feel, not strictly by what the monitor is giving me, but as a way to stay in check, it seems workable.

The camera sure heats up quickly... and the battery life is blink-and-you'll-miss-it!

It would be awesome if we could get the option of loading different LUTs into the camera, or at least tweaking the preview monitor video curve somehow. In other words I'd like to record LOG and use a different gamma curve on the video preview that has a little more punch to it (a B&W mode would be cool too).

In case anyone's wondering, you can just barely get away with shooting a 35mm with the Kowa 8z. At a 105mm equivalent, that's not much of a surprise given the GH2 can eke by with a 50mm on the same lens (i.e. 100mm equiv).

And now for something really trivial... I cannot for the life of me figure out how I'm supposed to loop the string for the camera strap through the loop on the camera. I always suck at these things though.

Sorry I am not going to point out individual videos as really bad footage as I am not here to point fingers at individuals and their work.

if you do a search for "blackmagic pocket" or "bmpcc" on vimeo and look through the videos I am confident you will find the majority of the footage is out of focus, jittery, soft, at the wrong shutter speed etc etc etc.

If people disagree with me basically they are lying to themselves. We know what this camera is capable of, both from the specs on the box to the half dozen excellent videos online. These two things alone also drive home my point at the rest of the "really bad footage"

I am not here talking about the videos not conveying good stories or interesting subject matter....I am looking at this purely from a pixel peeing technical exercise. If I didnt know what this cam was capable of and based my purchase purely on the footage I had seen I would not be buying this cam.