"Seriously what has USA got to offer this days besides designing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction."

If that was true the government and DOE wouldn't be cutting position across the board. Unfortunately the truth is we're involved in foreign affairs that clearly don't involve us and that's what we're good at.

I agree though, who cares where the hell it's manufactured. As long as they release the damn thing and its a quality product. This latest round of delays is making me wonder how many times they can pull this excuse since now it will be at least two months late.

@JohnTollwannabe It's made by BMD themselves. They own their own manufacturing facilities.

jb

More news, good news.

Shipments of Blackmagic Design’s eagerly anticipated Cinema Camera have been delayed.

The 2.5K device, which was unveiled at NAB earlier this year, was meant to ship in July.

Blackmagic EMEA senior PR manager Patrick Hussey said the camera would be delivered to customers by the end of the month.

“We are making a few tweaks because we want to make sure we release a quality product, not substandard kit,” he said.

“The reality of the situation is that a four-week delay is not an awful lot, particularly when you consider that delays to products from other manufacturers can be much more substantial.”

Hussey declined to provide more information about the “final round of tweaks”, but he said suggestions from some resellers that the delay related to third party licencing issues were incorrect.

“There are no problems there and Thunderbolt approvals have been granted.

“All products go through a quality assurance process and we’re just making sure everything is nailed down.”

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techfacils/blackmagic-reassures-customers-over-camera-delay/5045378.article

@JohnTollwannabe

No, it is Australian slaves. But I am sure John will confirm that they feed them enough and they have warm place to sleep :-)

@MattRobertson7 You can Choose in ProRes either "FILM" which is a LOG style image or "VIDEO" which is a 709 style image.

Will there be a log mode available in prores?

What are others with camera orders in doing?

I think that all of them are just waiting.

Latest is my camera will be shipping out around Aug 24 or following monday. I'm high in the cue and have been told receive date is Aug 24.

Spent the last 2 days researching SSD's and it looks like the technical savy are saying to wait until a new/ better list comes forth from Black Magic. Tough to wait, but I guess that's what I'll do even though there were some good sales this week. Going to start with two 256GB SSD's.

What are others with camera orders in doing?

It only does ProRes 422(HQ).

I think it's in the order of about 2 hours to fill my 240GB drive.

jb

Thanks.

A good read. 4 parts interview with John Brawley. http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/lightscameraaction/story/blackmagics_camera_-_the_dark_art_of_digital_cinematography_part1/

It's ProRes 422(HQ).

24p=176mbps, 25p=184mbps, and 30p=220mbps.

http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/professionalformatsandworkflows/index.html#chapter=10%26section=4%26tasks=true

@johnbrawley gorgeous looking image. You'd certainly be fired as a steadicam operator, yet very interesting to see the effect of the jitter. I'm not sure i like the type of jitter, although the rolling shutter is ok. But then you do suck at steadicam, too. ;) What was the shutter speed in those steadicam takes? And the lighting yes, it's blissful. Such immensely beautiful colours; (By the way, you might do this pretty girl a favour if you tell here she's probably spring type (ginger hair, wonderful olive eyes -i'm no expert!), so anything warm and intense would suit her better than her kaki coat. http://wardrobeshop.com/content/how-dress-different-skin-types-spring-skin-type )

Thanks for sharing this footage! You're making me happier every time.