@neveraholiday

No, it's 2 balanced channels of audio, so one channal per jack unlike DSLR's where there is 2 unbalanced channels per jack. Balanced audio is better.

This is calculated correctly for m4/3 at 1.85 crop

At this price point I think that it is going to be more interesting what the competition do... Hopefully this will shake things up more than RED! Count on it!

@John_Farragut that could be a sad reality... Only time will tell how much of the bottom line the BMDCC eats... What ever happens this is still a watershed moment. RAW for 3k! Weren't we all discussing this only last week- being that this would happen +2014? Interesting...

@alcomposer

I suggest do not worry about RAW and major companies.
Real reason why it is not widespread is the flash cards speed (other small one is mobile DRAM).
It is clear that new cards will doublt or even triple speed in next year. So, you could see 1080p RAW.

The darn thing is a camera strapped to a Mac Mini!

This is oriented mostly to Mac users. As one of two programs runs only on Mac, it is quite hard to find Thunderbolt on PCs, and SSD are formatted in Mac compatible way.

I could care less about the hdmi. A pro grade monitor will have sdi. When I bought my ikan VX7 and I was on the fence about the lower priced Marshall (with hdmi only) the no sdi was the deal breaker for me. It's a shitty connector and it is the "vhs" of video interface. EASY for the home consumer and not really meant for professional applications. The fact that Zacuto actually marketed their evf as a "Pro" model shows them what they are... hucksters that will do anything for a dime. Oops, tangent over. Sorry VK.

I'm really interested in seeing more skin tones with this as it is my preference for shooting.

Fair call @VK.

Interesting to come to terms with the fact that as SD size and speed increases camera companies will simply drop 'RAW' as a present. Can't wait to see actual 'footage' out of this thing though- as opposed to encoded Vimeo. Without a doubt I am seriously considering this cam.

@leonbeas

(re: Hitler buys from B&H ....and gets passover delivery)

You my friend, are one great writer & a damn fine editor too!

@kholi "I'm second in line over at Markertek."

Behind me :) Glad you got my message about where I got mine and hopped in line behind me.

@kholi "the sense that most here have no idea what they're getting into messing with a RAW camera system like this"

I agree 100% and I'm a little fearful of not just the workflow, but also of the cost & time for storage and archiving the increased amount of data.

Right now, I assume that I will shoot more minutes of compressed footage than I will raw. There is plenty of work to help pay the bills where the compressed footage will be more than acceptable. As to the raw, expenses have gone up. More costs of storage/archiving. Faster drive subsystems to edit unless your going to string a bunch of SSD's together to edit from (and that in itself will be expensive).

As to workflow regarded editing / colorizing the raw data, I'm not sure how that's going to work time and rendering wise. It will be more, but just how much more, who knows. Hopefully I have the processing power and infrastructure on my storage systems to work. (Been more PC centric for the last few years and recently sold my Mac laptop, so all PC now.)

Like everything on the internet, there's probably more BS opinions than good thought provoking ones, but regardless, to all those with some experience and talking from brain to mouth instead of the other route, thanks for sharing your opinions.

I ordered 2 days ago and have read so much these last 4 days on this camera that I'm getting fatigued, but I keep coming back. Gonna be a long 3 months.

ps.... I'm thrilled that I'll finally be using SSD's to record on. Thank you Black Magic.

Guys, how about calculate real cost of ownership for this camera?

For examle, for active shooter who also use local double backup and cloud based backup.

About the SDI out....Maybe you could use this with it? Probably will cost a grip though...