Andrew Reid

Something isn't right because I'm not the only one to experience the 'dark side' of Blackmagic. Strange shills that come out of the woodwork on my forum during big releases. Anonymous email spam about Blackmagic news. Even though I have bought almost every BM camera at some point or another... For some reason I never felt valued as a Blackmagic customer, more like used. Used for publicity and a guinea pig early adopter, a beta tester. Waiting ages for pre-orders. Black hole where sun should be. Dreadful card compatibility. Dust and debris on sensor of brand new cameras. Scuffs on the body. May as well have bought used. But if you think support is bad wait till you deal with a certain Mr Patrick Hussey (big boss of communications in the UK and Europe). Never felt so disrespected in my life and this is from a guy's whose actual job description is to look after the press and reviewers! Bought the original BMCC, original Pocket too, the new 4K, and the 6K... that is 4 cameras and thousands of quid! And yet still this wasn't anywhere near enough to generate any positive support or acknowledgement from the company or representatives, even though some of the staff and John Brawley used my forum to discuss and promote Blackmagic while taking my money at retail! Don't get me wrong. I am all for camera companies speaking direct to users. But I think if Blackmagic staff are going to use this forum to promote their products and engage with customers, the very least they can do is OK it with me first and get on good terms. Otherwise, what's in it for me? They are looking like heroes, getting on the publicity and adulation, whilst I sit here ignored with my stack of broken Blackmagic cameras. I think using this platform for promotional purposes, whilst not giving me (actual buying customer) the time of day, is disgraceful ethics. I have since come to the conclusion that they don't even care. In my opinion the core of the company in Melbourne is a great engineering led team, seems very innovative, but the camera design side (ergonomics) needs massive improvement, the production (build quality) and shipping quantities need to be in a different league for them to challenge RED, Sony, Canon, ARRI, and support needs to improve big style before I buy another BMD camera. Purely in my opinion, Grant Petty needs to delegate more and to better people, and sort the marketing department out so that it doesn't add insult to injury for a customer who bought 4 dodgy cameras in a row (me).

BS maybe. "In-sensor scaling" = pixel binning or oversampling...That is the question. Because binning, skipping, implies you are not sampling all the data, but with averaging and combining data from all photosites, the story is very different. I am curious how the 12K RAW stuff does not infringe on RED's patents BTW. Changing the CFA is enough? I doubt that. Well put.

Getting away from the personal, and from individuals we don't know, we should be talking about the general phenomena instead. It's much more interesting. Since when did people become so infatuated with brand ambassadors instead of filmmakers. Peter McKinnon probably has more followers than Roger Deakins. When I criticise a popular YouTuber it's treated like blasphemy. We are living in a dystopia where Jesus is Kayne West, the Virgin Mary is Kim Kardashian and the religion is consumer goods. So just as the wider general public are enthral to these lifestyles, camera nerds are to Peter McKinnon's "filmmaking" 😂

It's only eye candy. Where is the meaning? Where's the culture? Where's the art?

More amazing shots...

Pure dross Got to like this comment though 🙂

He was rewarded. It's 2020 and the bad guys are winning.

$4k camera on a selfie stick. How 2020!

Exceptional footage. Can barely tell it apart from cinema.

Got to hand it to the Canon marketing department. They are fast at putting out fires. An ability which in case of EOS R5 is useful in the literal sense as well!

I don't know. They are a bit too Florida for me. A bit Ken.

The most amazing thing about that is it only has 120 views. For a video with a topless model on the internet, that is a real surprise. It is proof of why Olympus couldn't sell enough cameras. They can't even promote tits on the internet.

And a complete lack of journalism too. Barney Britton. No backbone. Thinks he is a hotshot photographer "in" with all the CEOs because they use him as a marketing mouth. He is the archetypical Southern tweed wearing twat. Manchester guy would have had no nonsense replies, even if he had to deck him first.

He left Canon. Fired for the overheating situation.

Director: Is the tree also 12K? Or 4K? Client: I want the fucking tree in 16K Dp: Heard of a zoom?

I suppose if medium format cameras are nessessary for some commercial stills work, then medium format resolution is in demand for some clients in video and in cinema. So there is demand for it. Very top end, very niche, but it is there. I just think Blackmagic could do more in the mirrorless 4K/6K camera market than they have done.

Talking about 98% of people here is an idea for Blackmagic. Full frame Pocket Cinema Pro 6K. Articulated screen. ND. New body design with power efficient processor. Did I mention articulated screen? Yes the Alexa is wasted on us! But 12K? Bring it on!

Stock footage for billboards in Times Square!

So I asked this guy!

I don't mind where they get the sensor from. I just think 6K full frame would have more use, creatively and be more in demand than a 12K S35 URSA

Interesting. But why?

WHAT?! Sounds like a made up sensor invented by @androidlad I'll believe that when I see it 😉

In-sensor scaling. So pixel binning? Because if it is in-sensor, it can't be oversampling, unless the sensor has some alien tech we don't know about.

It is marketing shenanigans. A banner halo product to say "We make the best technology and have 12K, but Canon only has 8K". I don't think it exists because of demand or creativity, or doing what Pocket customers want.

Ok looks like I was wrong. I'll update the list 😆 The Leica CL and TL2 plus original Q still have no 24p, so very weird that the Q2 has it.