Andrew Reid

From official forum -   BMPCC: Still waiting on the green light (I assume from some form of manufacturing QC) for mass shipping. No numbers yet (I don't think they even want to know them) but a few more demos have begun shipping to retailers. It should be a couple or three business days before those start shipping out. You're not getting RAW on the first wave. That's coming later on a firmware update.  BMCC4K: Still has about 3 to 4 weeks worth of development before those are ready to be approved for shipping. Not sure what the technical issues are, but those are taking a bit more time.   Key bit - Still waiting on green light to start mass production of Pocket.

13 stops fits nicely into 12bit, converts nicely to 10bit.   Remind me, what is DR of C100 and the bit depth?

    Focus Button on Pocket Cinema Camera When using Pocket Cinema Camera with an autofocus lens press the FOCUS button for focus peaking or AF.

And still frame recording:     Time Lapse Interval This setting allows you to record a still frame at the following intervals: Frames: 2 - 10 Seconds: 1 - 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 Minutes: 1 - 10    Should have a stills mode though, linked to shutter release. Still reading...

From the manual:   "Micro HDMI port of your Pocket Cinema Camera outputs 10-bit 4:2:2 HD video at 1920 x 1080 while recording"   I believe this is the first 10bit HDMI output I've ever seen on a consumer camera.

  Cheers! The manual - http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/5813056/Blackmagic_Camera_Manual_July_2013.pdf

  Thanks for the first hand info.   Well, my suspicions of the last few weeks it seems were justified. There were a lot of hints.   I don't know how many orders of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera they need to ship to satisfy all customers in August. I can see it being that unless they ship 1000, it might be the same situation as the BMCC in 2012/13, and that is unacceptable. If they trickle out 30 a month, it just won't cut it. At $999 that is a product that needs the higher quantities to succeed.   Maybe now, people can better understand my disappointment and anger over what is going on at Blackmagic. All the signs pointed to this recently, and it is something they cannot really afford.   That the Pocket Camera goes from the factory to the Blackmagic offices strikes me as having a manufacturing setup in China as opposed to in-house, though I have no idea what exactly the set up is - I expect this will cause further delays before it reaches customers because if Blackmagic are putting the new firmware on production models for the first time and hit a snag, or it needs testing extensively then we're going to be in for a further wait.

Mosaic Engineering are preparing an anti-aliasing filter for the BMCC, but ideally it should be in the camera out of the box along with a built in ND wheel.   Now with this kind of spec creep you are going to get a price rise.   So maybe consolidating should mean evolving the BMCC rather than revolutionising it.   Evolution for me would be -   - Existence - Higher quantities produced to meet demand - Firmware update for audio meters, histogram, better focus assists - Active mFT mount like Pocket Camera - Compressed raw - Improved LCD   I'd take all that, even for an extra $1000 instead of the 4K camera.

  Whatever, and Paris has the Eiffel tower.   Enough with the straw men arguments. Deal with the points presented to you or not at all. Makes the thread go off topic.

  Well, it's just as painful!

They don't suck at all.   The BMCC 2.5K has a much more film-like image than the electronic videoy C100.   Hell it even gets noise in the highlights rather than blowing them out! (Exactly like a film emulsion).   You seem to have confused very frustrating and bad shipping problems with the products sucking. The reason many are so upset about the shipping problems is because they really wanted the products!

Backwards, not really.   If you need global shutter and 4K then it is another option that didn't exist before.   That it doesn't exist now either, is a bit troubling, but I digress...   The image on the BMCC mFT 2.5K is lovely and the glass for that mount is too. What Blackmagic need to do is simply build on what they already have and nip the 4K adventure in the butt.

Doubtful Panasonic laugh dissuasively at Blackmagic seen as they are using their mount.

[media]http://vimeo.com/63604452[/media] Blackmagic are holding an event right now in LA and information is being reported back by attendees from the Blackmagic reps present. EOSHD takes a look at what's new... [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10856/blackmagic-4k-production-camera-now-due-in-september]Read the full article here[/url]

The G5 is crap, you may as well spend a bit extra and get a used GH2 if you consider the G6 not cheap enough

  My Nikon Speed Booster is a week late and I do everything myself, one man.   Blackmagic's mFT 2.5K camera was 9 months late and they are a company with hundreds of employees.   So my question to you - do you think you're being fair? :)

They have open photography days there organised by a company. 40 euros per head I believe. However, the commercialisation of Berlin's ruins kind of spoils the fun, not to mention the atmosphere.

  Who says I am talking about their existing IBIS? I'm not. The new Olympus 5 axis IBIS is a separate technology which is part of a broader exchange of parts between the companies via Sony's stake in Olympus. It will appear on *future* cameras. Sony are supplying Olympus with sensors, and now Olympus are supplying optical tech. It has nothing to do with Sony's existing system or the older Minolta one from which it was derived. Quite aware of that thanks.   Source: http://www.43rumors.com/ft4-olympus-will-now-share-the-5-axis-stabilization-system-with-sony/

The flange of B4 lenses may be long enough but how far does the rear of the lens protrude into that, wouldn't they hit the mirror?

  I'm an idiot to comment on my own forum?   I'm an idiot to defend myself?   I'm an idiot to respond to opinions from you I don't agree with?   EOSHD occupies a lot of headspace. You should try running the site for a while an put yourself in my shoes to get some perspective on what affect comments from the users have on the community and on those running it.

JPEGS!! Enough said

The GoPro has a fisheye lens. Resolution is only one part of the image, in same way that size is only one part of architecture. How can you possibly compare?

Bruno. What I resent is having my daily filmmaking work interrupted by the need to respond to idiotic comments. If I was interested in doing the whole narcissist thing like Bloom I'd have plastered my face over the website by now. Maybe put more cat pictures up too. You and I don't agree on most things. I say as much... I have tolerated your contray opinions for months and months. At some point, if you have a stranger in your backyard throwing rocks at the window you have to get rid. It isn't censorship but self defence.

Took my friend Susanna to a very spooky abandoned sanatorium in Berlin last weekend. Here are the results -   http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoshd/sets/72157634748415392/   The Jupiter 9 also works very well with anamorphic. Not very sharp wide open but the look is great at F5.6. It has interesting bokeh going on. This is a cheap lens - I paid around 100 euros for it.   Pentax 28mm F2.0 -     Jupiter 9 85mm F2.0 -       There's more of the location here when I visited with the Sony RX1...   http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoshd/sets/72157634421410257/

  It isn't because of disagreement with the prevalent thoughts at all. It is to prevent ascendancy into un-constructive information infesting my site, personal attacks and people just hanging around looking for arguments.   Some people are contrary for the sake of it, and it's very annoying.   Some of the best and most constructive ideas comes from differing viewpoints from my own and I have no intention in censoring them.