One way to compare accurately is to look at every file through something like a stream parser. Resolution is not the only thing you'd consider when buying a camera or choosing a format

Just saw both the FS700 and black magic at Broadcast Asia. Both are interesting cameras, initial impressions: FS700 seems to have retained the image quality of its predecessor, but skin tone looks better. It's signature Sony. The Black Magic is more an unknown quantity, saw the images live on a full HD monitor, fairly flat imagery, which is great for colour grading. But one can only say so much about a showroom test. Has anyone taken it for a walk in the park? Would love to see it being stretched in all the different conditions, just to see if the 13 stops are functional, especially when you pan from outdoors to indoors. For US$2995, it looks quite decent. Thinking of ordering one already

Their reply email just came in:

Hello, Thank you for your kind words. I have not been made aware of any plans on making a 4/3rds version. I will forward this to our product manager as a feature request. Thank you for your suggestion.

All the best, Eric Pestana Support Representative Blackmagicdesign

I've just emailed the BM complaining about why on earth did they not make it with m4/3 mount by default. And also asking if they plan to release another version of the camera with a m4/3 mount. Let's see what they say.

ok, I get it (I mean I knew it), but it's really a poor line of defense for 5Dm3 against a camera that shoots with 13 stops of dinamic range, 2.5k, RAW etc, which is totally in a different league altogether.

Still, the BM sensor being smaller than GH2's and with a crop factor of 2.4, I think BM has made a huge mistake by not putting a m4/3 mount. I mean with m4/3 you can always go up to ZF, PL mounts etc (or any other mount), but you cannot go down from ZF to m4/3. That's my main beef with these cameras.

Found out about BM camera yesterday and joining this thread today.

Yes, this is a camera to drool over... especially the 13 stops for dynamic range (by the way, how many stops does GH2 have? I remember GH1 has 10 or 11, or am I wrong). I definitely want to have it - many nice bells and whistles that I'd want to see in the camera that I shoot with. But you wait till they release their first firmware update and I'm sure @Vitaliy_Kiselev will make it even better ;)

Is BM's image 4:4:4 ?

The market for this kind of camera who can afford a $3000 just for the body is huge, but I'm sure many who cant afford t will be sticking with GH2, which (correct me if I'm wrong) is the next best thing right now at this price range.

Just from reading the specs of BM, I thought I'd do a pros and cons and why I'll be choosing GH2 as my next camera:

• BM's EF and ZF mounts mean that you will be spending a small fortune on lenses that run in $thousands if not tens-of-thousands. I'd much rather stick with m4/3 mount with cheap adapters from Hong Kong that I can mount virtually any lens ever made (my lenses made in 1970s perform beautifully on my GH13). (That's also why I liked DBolex's C-mount idea). This is my main reason for staying away from BM. I've built my lens kit around the m4/3 mount and BM has no m4/3 mount!
• add to that the not-so-great ISO performance, and your bill for even faster lenses will keep mounting.
• 256GB SSD used as a 30min cassette. WOW! You'll need to take at least 8 of those to a location shoot to accommodate the same 4 hours that the 32GB Trascend class10 SD card provides for less than £25. But then imagine the computer power and also storage HDDs that you will need for post-production. Your laptop definitely won't handle it and you will need to build a new high-end i7 comp.
• battery running for 90min. Not cool.
• Okey, BM has an audio inputs and headphone jack (nice), but why the hell did they not make it balanced XLRs like on DBolex?
• and why the hell is the audio sampling at 48khz/24bit, when even the small Zoom H1 is recording in 96khz/28bit...
• No 50p or 60p? How on earth are we supposed to do Slow-Mo?
• The worst thing is that the Rolling Shutter is still there... not cool.

Conclusion: if I had $10,000-$15,000 spare cash, I'd definitely buy the BM camera ($3000 for the body and the rest for the lenses, SSDs, high-end computer, storage HDDs, batteries, accessories and etcetories -- I'm sure Zacuto has already began designing overpriced junk to mount on this excellent camera). This is definitely a Canon S300 and 5Dm3 killer (in terms of video) and a serious blow to Red Epic. But for everybody else, like myself, GH13 and hacked GH2 is still a camera of choice when making shorts and planning a feature shoot.

There's still one point that I don't understand though: this camera is shooting in 2.5K, so why does it still matter that it's not "full sensor" (apparently that's the new point of defense for the Canon boys). I don;t get it. Can someone please clarify what's the significance of the sensor size here, if the camera is shooting 2.5K RAW or ProRes anyway?

Thanks for the info shian. Hmmm... Certainly seems smart to wait on this one. I lost interest early on, but the more hear, I'm not impressed.

Imagine 120fps though. That's 600MB/sec. lmao.

@redgamma

What if you dump off 120fps DNGs via thunderbolt to a Macbook Pro with 2x SSD in RAID 0 (swapping the optical drive)? Oh snap. Fast enough.

120 fps at 2.4K won't happen. SSD speed limit is reason.

Uncompressed RAW is perfect workflow for this low res. camera. SSD is cheap, and can compress to Cineform RAW on a big drive faster than you can copy the same RAW movie to the same hard drive!!! This is because the compression reduced the data rate, and that is the copy speed limiter.

Those complaining about the price, gimme a break. It's dirt cheap even compared to the 8 bit crap.

What about 10 BMC owners pitch in and buy one ($300 per person) for Vitaliy to hack it and give us 120fps??? I'm down if he thinks it can be done.

Month & half isn't long at all. Hope they iron out everything.

They plan to ship only very small amount on July 30 :-)

Jem about this camera (from their event)

http://www.thec47.com/gearbox/may-24th.html