SleepyWill

Do you have a smart phone with a good camera? I use an app called pocket light meter - others are surely avaliable - which while not as precise, gets you to within 95% of a baseline exposure. If you're literally going to put it in the bin, give me a shout - I'll happily swap it for a canon xa10 in almost pristine, but dusty condition!

Isn't the right camera for any individual entirely subjective? What's good for you may be terrible for him and vice versa?

10mm x2 crop = equivalent view as 20mm 7mm x3 crop = equivalent view as 21mm The 10mm with the effects of the speed booster will give you a wider pov! Add into the bargain an f stop boost of, I believe 1 1/3 of a stop, over twice the amount of light let in and you've got the pov you want with a faster (effective) lens! It will be manual focus, but you'll not get autofocus working to any desirable level on any camera, the autofocus can't possibly read your mind and understand where you want the focus, where you want it shifted to and how fast. No camera will offer you this. Check out this for a better written guide to your camera: http://wolfcrow.com/blog/the-blackmagic-pocket-camera-guide-part-one-ergonomics-and-specifications/ - This is a link to part 1 I think you've got a wonderful opportunity here to ditch your reliance on automatic systems, no computer is as quick as your brain at complex, subjective tasks such as pulling focus or exposing a scene to your liking and after a couple of weeks of practice you will be better than the automatic systems on any camera in the world. Good luck, have fun and always remember, you don't need faster, lighter, wider, longer, automatic anything - get creative, move your camera smoothly and never stop learning!

Heh, I think you were talking to a young teen who thinks money grows from mummy and daddy's wallet.

So for stills, that APS-C bit of the sensor is about 5Mps - I've got a tonne of glass for my NEX 7 and I wonder how viable this is for stills in crop mode - I suspect the answer is that it'll be great, plenty of pixels but it will place a demand on getting it right in the camera rather than in lightroom!

Well, no - as I said in my first post, I love that camera and I use it every day. But now I have one black magic camera, I wouldn't buy a second because, for whatever reason they cannot or will not add simple cheap to implement features widely requested by the community - it's not like I'm bemoaning the battery life, design or other features that are difficult and expensive to change. I'm talking about software features a primary school child could code. Formatting a card, deleting a clip and displaying recording space left. Now Blackmagic have demonstrated firmly, as a company, they will not listen to their community. They have had over a year now and these features that exist on my £15 digital camera (no brand visible) have not yet been implemented, despite being asked repeatedly over and over. I would understand if they explained that it was impossible to put these features in, but they haven't. They haven't even acknowledged that people are asking for these features. Which is fine, I'm not going to attack them on how they run their business, but I won't buy from them again, because I don't wish to financially reward that attitude to their customers. I'm not going to enforce my opinion on others who have different priorities either, I'm glad there are customers out there for their new cameras, and I'm glad there are people out there who are happy customers - I'm a happy customer - did I mention, I love my BMPCC! But now just because I wouldn't buy another camera from them, I have to sell it??

Ha! A friend of mine spend well over £1000 for a matte box.... for no other reason than to make his camera look a bit more professional.

As a customer, I have a choice. When a camera arrives on the market, I am allowed to decide whether I wish to buy that camera or not. There are many factors that make up that decision, one of which, quite obviously is price and the features you get for that price. One very important feature is aftersales support. I get it, you and a few others are happy with bare minimum after sales support due to the incredible features you get for such a low price. That's fine, that's your choice. But when I make my choice, why do you feel it is appropriate to tell me to "stop throwing the babay (SIC) out with the bathwater?" Its my choice to make and you need to respect that, if you wish to be treated with respect for the consumer choices you have made.

Have you tried a nikon fit 10mm lens with the metabones adapter and manual focus? Sigma do a 10 - 20 f4-5.6

I love my BM Pocket and thanks to it's size I use it every day! I'm no professional but a proud amateur and I have to agree with the sentiment of this article, I wouldn't buy another Black Magic camera until they start looking after their userbase. Card space left should have been included the moment it was bought to their attention, and if, at this point they are unwilling to write the patch themselves, open the source code up to the community, we'll do it!