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Black Magic: Is internal battery complete disaster or reliable solution?
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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Producing popular and modular camera is quite dangerous in our times. As you can end up selling relatively cheap head, and all the rest will go to Chinese and Korean firms :-)

  • MacalincagMacalincag

    @Vitaliy_Kiselev

    This information comes from John Brawley.

    "BMD will do an out of warranty battery replacement for $80 plus postage."

    also

    "...I believe they have service centres in every territory..."

    I highly doubt it will be restricted to the US as that would not make much sense.

  • John_FarragutJohn_Farragut

    Yeah, it would have been better with no internal battery, but full external addon screwed to the buttom, like what you do with DSLR battery grips. More empty space inside the camera. External battery can still be made very flat if packed densely. And they could have offered different capacities. Meaning they could make money of it. :-) Seriously though, the BMCC was made to be modular, so why not go all the way?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @Macalincag

    How it looks in practice? Is it for US only?

  • MacalincagMacalincag

    Also, if your battery goes kaput, Blackmagic can replace it for $80.

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