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

    @act

    Looks very good. Pleasing colors and sharpness.

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  • markr041markr041

    BMPCC time-lapse from RAW:

    Graded in Lightroom; edited in Vegas Pro. 10-frame interval.

  • markr041markr041

    The BMPCC is perfectly capable of producing any colors you want. I believe that most of the posted videos reflect incompetence at color correction, sometimes masquerading as art. Here are some RAW frame grabs that show you can get bright, saturated full spectrum color, if that is what you want.

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  • MaulKentorMaulKentor

    I'm looking for a tripod that I can take travelling for use with my BMPCC. I'm wondering if I can put a fluid head on a tripod like the mefoto ones on B&H would this work? Not sure if this belongs here but it's important that its for BMPCC so weight is not an issue.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    I think it's also alot of footage thrown in FC. Most of the stuff coming out of it it seems to saturate the browns and shift the blues pretty high.

  • ahblezaahbleza

    Today I was sitting down with my color grader, and we spent several hours building nodes in DVR10 for my BMPCC footage. It's just so much fun having 12 bit raw to work with. Adding power windows, doing motion tracking with grades, and removing (rather than adding) color is just a pleasure in Da Vinci with the Pocket.

    Even the ungraded shots are sweet. Here's another one, again UNGRADED out of the camera.

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  • vapourtrailvapourtrail

    @vicharris @ahbleza People need to learn about grading before posting stuff like this. I seriously couldn't be happier with my investment in BM. Vic, that last screenshot has tons of brown in it!! It's a desert!! :) But look! It grades nicely when handled properly!!

    Maybe we should ask for a moritorium on posting ungraded footage. Seems some people can't grasp the concept.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    @ahbleza Funny. I like the complete unawareness of the poster about what he's posting. Think it's just more people that have never touched the camera giving "expert" advice on it. :) I've actually got some very neutral grades out of these cameras, especially with Hooks lUT.

    Pretty neutral if you ask me ;)

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  • ahblezaahbleza

    @vicharris Two of them are mine. Both ungraded, using the standard video profile.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    One of my videos is in there and that's a funny comment because that's actually what the colors looked like :)

  • VeskuVesku

    Obviously light green and dark brown are the most cinematic colors. Must be because these examples are samples of 20 different BMCCP videos :)

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    More samples

    http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52756637

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  • makismakis

    @GMC I will try it thanx. Can you upload a black frame at 1600asa 360 deg please? Just for comparison... Thanx.

  • lmackreathlmackreath

    I would stay away from the pny.

    http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13989

  • crisvplcrisvpl

    what about PNY 64GB?

  • vapourtrailvapourtrail

    I ordered two of the PNY cards for shits n giggles. If BM says they work I have no doubt they should. I should be getting them tomorrow. I'll post results.

  • kevin_kirchmankevin_kirchman

    @Cid, thats a big update. That card is only 22 bucks on Amazon.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9159/personal-view-video-contest#Item_1

  • CidCid

    New cards added for RAW: PNY Elite Performance 32 GB 90MB/s SD card http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/detail/faqs?sid=27541&pid=34849&os=win

  • GMCGMC

    @makis you said that you got white pixels when you pushed it with PS. In my tests the Adobe Camera Raw converter (I'm using CS6) is messing some things up, especially with color - it only shows up when you push very hard. I am getting offset colors (e.g. red) with ACR when I push the image hard, almost like in the old VHS days when moving objects had that color ghosting. It is not there with DaVinci resolve. Hence i would propose to use Resolve before jumping to any conclusions. Anybody else noticed that?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Btw, in coming days we'll have Christmas contest for BMPCC owners with good prize.

  • CidCid

    Pocket rocking in the music videos:

    http://www.eoshd.com/content/11809/renowned-british-filmmaker-shane-meadows-shoots-jake-bugg-music-video-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-bmcc?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EOSHD+%28EOSHD.com%29

  • joblessjobless

    The talent was recorded in prores and the Bg in RAw... This was the test for next project so the light set up was really fast and not done really good, didn't have any light on chroma for example and the keying was easy. Just 2 clicks and done.. really impressed.

  • diggerdigger

    @jobless very nice. was that raw or prores? I bet keying was a breeze either way.

  • joblessjobless

    My BMPCC arrived a couple a days ago ( PV Deals) safe and sound. Shipping was really fast... The camera is great and I really enjoy shooting with it. Really makes difference from Ghx cameras for CC and post stuff. The video below is shot with BMPCC..

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