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Donnie G: Well, while I like the idea of an ILC purpose built for the indie crowd, I still have questions. Like, how useful will that LCD screen be in daylight, and if you cover the screen with an accessary hooded viewfinder, how do you access the camera controls? What's the storage capacity of the built in SSD? Is the camera actually rugged enough to endure sustained real world abuse, or do we need to buy a dozen or so, just in case? I'm not hating, I'm just asking.
The camera comes with a LCD hood. The one you see in the picture. Also as already stated it does not come with an SSD. You buy those yourself. They are easily interchangable. So the storage capacity is whatever you put in the camera.
I don't know how the build quality will be But it is machined from a solid block of aluminum.
Francis Carver: Great new digi-box, BUT for these few minor issues:
1. Crop factor is anywhere from 2.5x to 3.0x, depending whom you ask. it is major, however. Blackmagic Design had mysteriously "forgot" to mention anything about it in their detailed press release or in the posted specs.
2. You would need native Super 16mm film optics or maybe 1-inch C-mount lenses on it. Then you would need some PL and C-mount adapters to make them fit. Full-frame 135 and even DX sensor lenses would be a serious mis-match.
3. Small chance of being able to record fisheye, UWA, and WA perspective image sequences with this Blackmagic camera, due to the above mentioned lens mis-match issue. Crops, barrrels, etc. They should have announced some dedicated lenses for it as well.
4. You cannot change the battery in this thing. The battery inside the camera is sealed. After you shoot for 75-90 minutes with it, you need to plug camera into the AC adapter for 2 hours, according to the BMD specs. Not too good, is it?
Francis Carver
If you really want to know more look here:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?273-BMD-Cinema-Camera
This camera has been thoroughly talked about and deemed revolutionary for the most part. I really don't know why you seem to be talking so much crap about it. This camera is in fact a game changer and I can't want to get my hands on one.
nrojc: Don´t get me wrong.. I have nothing against cinematography.. but.. is this not Digital PHOTOGRAPHY Review? I understand that they mention the 1D-C, since it is a hybrid.. but this? Hmm.. you are geting off-topic with the whole concept of this page.. :)
I never understood how someone could be into photography but not cinematography as well. If you love making images it seems to me that these two would naturally collide.
What this camera represents is a greater convergence between stills and video, because it shoots raw 12bit images in the Adobe CinemaDNG format. Which means you can pull individual stills out of a folder and work with them in photoshop if you want.
So consider it a still camera that can shoot 24 images per second. Great for wildlife and sports photographers who need smaller resolution files but high fps. :)
Shelly Glaser: What's wrong with RED?
Nothing is wrong with RED. But to get into a basic Scarlet kit you can shoot with, you're looking at 5 times the price.
DREWnetwork: There seem to be quite a few amateur still photographers making some nasty and uninformed comments in this section.
So -- speaking to the amateur still photographers...
H.264 is like taking your photos in JPEG. Essentially your video/photo is what you see.
RAW is like taking your photos in RAW -- you can do all sorts of things in post ("Photoshop") that you can't possibly do with a JPEG.
In the video world -- the cheapest camera that shoots RAW is $14,000, and all the others are over $30,000.
This new camera shoots RAW video and costs US$3000.
MEANING -- this is a very big deal, it's revolutionary, and it will have effects across the entire digital cinema marketplace.
16mm film has been a standard in movie and television production for well over fifty years. Every "classic" TV show or documentary you've seen was filmed in 16mm -- like "Cheers" or "Life On Earth" for example. The 16mm sized sensor on this camera is irrelevant to your Canon T2i or Nikon whatever.
Francis Carver The crop factor on this sensor is 2.3x. So a 24mm EF lens will be 55.2mm in 135 equiv. That's not really a huge difference. It makes wide angles a little restrictive. But there is a nice Tokina 11-16mm lens that would work well.
Considering that m4/3 sensors at a 2X crop, 2.3x is not that far off.
Francis Carver: WARNING:
The BMD guys outright lies about the sensor size at 2:00 into the clip, claiming it is a M4/3 size sensor. It is nothing like M4/3. What will they come up with next, I wonder? If it a M4/3 sensor, why can't we use M4/3 lenses on it then?
http://www.eoshd.com/
That's because BlackMagic doesn't make the sensor. They had to find an already available sensor that fit their spec.
As for it not being m4/3 you are correct, it is sized between super16mm and m4/3. Which makes the size kind of strange. But consider that this is their first camera, it's priced to market at <$3000. The guys on the NAB floor are not engineers. They've been given talking points and not entirely accurate. But the specs page on their website is accurate.