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13 hours ago, JazzBox said:

Could you suggest me where to buy at least the Video Assist?
And maybe the Micro Cinema Camera, if you have some magic power ?

Thank you!!

The Blackmagic Video Assist is 549,00€ (VAT incl.) from amazon.it.

The Micro Studio Camera 4K is also available in Italy - but the Micro Cinema Camera is not listed yet.

Shooters are doing interesting work with the Micro Studio Camera:

UHD with Shogun

This one is 1080p with the Video Assist:

Great find, Mattias!  Don't know if you've seen it, but here is the 4K version.  I like the LOG images from both cameras, but wish they had applied the same LUT to both.

3 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

How's the codec in 4K on this thing? What's the bitrate?

The main concern I'd have over this camera are the ergonomics, speed of use, snappiness and logic of the menus and quality of the sensor. Will be surprised if it looks nicer than an A7R II in Super 35mm mode at high ISOs or a NX1 at low ISOs.

But yeah, definitely a curious beast to try out.

Just get it from somewhere with a good return policy. Why? Because it's a JVC

The codec is 8-bit 4:2:2 h.264 Quicktime .mov at a max bit rate of 150mbps. Arguably better than the GH4's internal 8-bit 4:2:0 h.264 Quicktime .mov at 100mbps.

I rented it a few months ago (before the LOG update), and it looked very good next to 4K footage from my GH4. And the ergonomics (except for the awful viewfinder) were better than any still/video hybrid.

With J-LOG, Dan Chung was able to produce a grade that looked like this.

Thinking seriously about buying one at $2995.