This also changes everything!!!

[Patrick Jenner]

Everything looks great until you see the skewing on pans (Jelly effect). I wonder if it’ll come with it’s own glass.
Why do they call 6.5mm holes “balanced analog” ? https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/blackmagiccinemacamera/techspecs/

Not a camera for me though, I’m a PC user and thus can’t use HPFS or HFS or whatever it’s called.

[Shawn Miller]

[Monty Wentzel] “The FIRST thing I look at on a new camera is the sensor size and I’ll tell you why. In most rooms of a home in a car or even on the street you can’t get the framing you want because you have to be so far away from the subject. Plus shallow focus etc…this is the look of and features of a full sized sensors and I won’t go backwards.”

So, based on the above stated criteria… the Canon 7D MkII is a better camera than the ARRI Alexa, the Sony F35 and the Panavision Genesis – and any camera with a ‘4k’ sensor will be ‘better’ than any Super 35 sensor on the market.

At this point, I don’t think any of us know how good the BlackMagic sensor is, but I am anxious to find out.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Patrick Jenner] “Not a camera for me though, I’m a PC user and thus can’t use HPFS or HFS or whatever it’s called.”

Macdrive will allow you to mount HFS volumes to a Windows machine. I use it when I get footage from MAC users, it works really well.

Shawn

[Eric Mc guire]

@Patrick:

Balanced and unbalanced audio inputs are made to support preamplified “lines” (like digital piano or preamplified signals) and/or unamplified signal (like a guitar jack). Basically, these inputs support every kind of jack 1/4 signal – whatever the source is. But you need balanced jacks to switch between these two kinds of sources.

It’s not XLR but it’s ok. Personnally, I don’t hear much of a difference.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Brawley] “HI. The camera I shot this with is a hand built prototype. They haven’t finished working on the sensor calibration yet, that takes care os noise, and dead pixels. This is very early days for this camera.”

Thanks for posting, John. Actually, I thought the type of footage you shot was a decent bench mark. You have some high contrast, some low light, some handheld car ride movement, so kudos.

I am talking strictly from the camera look perspective.

It just seemed a bit soft, the dynamic range seemed off, and overall didn’t seem like a camera that boasts 13 stops of DR. I hope you understand, I am not criticizing you, just the camera.

I know it’s early days, but it’s supposed to be shipped in July.

I don’t know, I’ll wait to see it, and thanks again for posting.

[Jeremy Garchow]

it seemed to me that the audio jacks are 1/4″ TRS (balanced), right?

[Jim Giberti]

[Hector berrebi] “the thing that most people sort of miss on this camera is the sensor
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I think the sensor size and lens crop is probably the concern of most people so far.

But if they can bring along 60p pro res, I’m already sold.

[Tim Wilson]

I use MediaFour MacDrive. $49, works fantastic. No discernible performance hit, absolutely invisible.

There are so many other utils, including some good free ones, for reading drives of any format that I just don’t sweat this stuff any more.

Tim Wilson
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Creative COW Magazine
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[David Lawrence]

[John Brawley] “HI. The camera I shot this with is a hand built prototype. They haven’t finished working on the sensor calibration yet, that takes care os noise, and dead pixels. This is very early days for this camera.”

Hi John, thanks for the post, makes complete sense. Excited about this camera and looking forward to seeing what it can do.

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[Chris Harlan]

[Eric Mc Guire] “It’s not XLR but it’s ok. Personnally, I don’t hear much of a difference.
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There shouldn’t be any difference, other than to the degree they stay clamped into the socket, which XLRs are better at. 1/4″ Balanced is perfectly acceptable.