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The \Mountain Bike' video also has some 120fps clips right? Or are the 60fps but then slowed a bit more than playing back at 30fps? Either way, looks great!

Where did you find the price? I skimmed the thread, but can't find much mention.

'Bugs' Peter Nearhos talks about using the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and the Laowa probe lens for the first time. ‘Bugs’ is a unique project where Peter could try out the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K in the world of macro filmmaking. “This was the first time I had shot with the Laowa probe or the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. The great thing about the probe is it will cover all of the 4K sensor. Larger 4K sensors tend to play havoc with your depth of field with this sort of work. So the smaller micro four thirds sized 4K sensor used by Blackmagic Design, is much better for this kind of shooting.” “I have to say the 13 stops of latitude was also really great, because you can see into all of the dark spots. Which is very good when you are using hard lights, because you have detail well into the shadows under leaves and things. The other great thing about this camera is the really high native ISO. I tended to stay around ISO 2500 but you can go as high as 25,600. There are other cameras with insane ISO levels, but they become incredibly grainy which means a lot of work in post. I think Blackmagic have their ISO at a sensible level. Given that for most macro filming you will be using lights, the 25,600 ISO with this camera is all you’ll ever need.” Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K ProRes 422 HQ ISO 2500 Laowa Probe 24mm, 60mm Macro 2:1, 15mm Wide Macro 1:1, 25mm Ultra Macro 5:1 EF mount, Canon 100mm 1:1, 65mm f/2.8 5:1 EF mount.. Laowa 7.5mm Micro Four Thirds mount. Metabones Speedbooster Ultra Aputure LS C300d and LS-mini20 daylight LEDs OG files on the download page: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/gallery

Actually, he didn't. According to the files that we can now download, 'Close Up Night' was 192 deg and 'Walking Day' was 215 deg. @John Brawley do you know / remember if that's correct? Also, that's what I thought about the audio.

If these are camera files, why is the 'Nature' footage, which was supposedly shot in RAW actually a ProRes file? I also notice there's no audio on the clips. Were the mics turned off or have these files been adjusted for the downloads? Grant made so many comments about the built in audio, but has given little info away on it. It doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious ?

That's amazing, thanks for providing the link!

@John Brawley Perhaps you've already answered, but having used the camera and seen the footage first hand, what's your opinion on the lack of mojo comments? How do the files look and feel OOC?

While I have no first hand knowledge, I can answer a couple of those. 1. No you can't transfer files in camera. 2. Stills function saves a DNG - I think in whatever frame size you're set to record in. Not sure about being able to use it while recording, but assume you can. 3. Can't answer 4. Can't answer 5. Your wildest dreams will definitely come true dreams may not actually come true. 6. I remember seeing something about being able to email BMD through their website to apply to be a future tester. I imagine there's a few things you need to prove before you're even considered, and they're inundated with applications. I think it's the 28-70 f2.8.

I think if BM re-released these clips with no post adjustments, people's reactions would be on a totally different level. I find it hard to judge the camera based on another person's grading. I'd and I think most others would be over the moon if they uploaded a handful of files straight off the card along with a text document with the cameras settings. Even just 1 shot from each of these videos. But I know they won't be doing that. hopefully when the first shipment goes out, people will be sharing that kind of thing. I will if mine arrive before there's loads of other footage available.

If you want a good alternative theory video (and can get over the narrators delivery) I think you'll like this one.

Wow that thumbnail took a few attempts before I could read the words in the correct order. BMD and the filmer mentioned that exact reflection in the description of the video, I doubt they would have included the shot and brought attention to it if it was the wrong camera.

And to help create space and hide a cut under some B-roll. In an interview setting, cutting out the taletn's 'Umms' and 'ahhs' is quite important, but you still have to have a small gap otherwise the cut can sound unnatural. Room tone is like audio cutaways in that sense.

Nature: RAW ISO400, 1250 and 2500 Sigma 18-35mm, Rokinon Cine 50mm EF lenses Metabones Speedbooster to Micro Four Thirds Models Walking at Night: Apple ProRes 422 HQ ISO1000 and 1200 Olympus Pro F4 zoom 12-100 Micro Four Thirds lens Models Walking in Daylight: Apple ProRes 422 HQ ISO1000 and 1250 Olympus Pro 25, 45, 1.2 micro and Olympus Pro 12-100 F4 zoom Micro Four Thirds lenses Balloons: Apple ProRes 422 HQ ISO800 Rokinon 25, 50, 80 T1.5 prime lenses

It's fairly easy to sync up to mouth movements. The hardest part is getting the audio in roughly the right place. that said, you can just find the very first word the talent spoke. You'll have that as visual and as audio. If you get that word or sentance close, just nudge the audio by 1 frame left or right until it matches. It's about 5 or 10 minutes work, depending on when you started the audio rolling. In all honesty, you could have got it synced perfectly in the same amount of time it took to make the post and wait for a reply. ?

The main problem I find with this camera is the workflow. Resolve doesn't recognise the files if you shoot in 422 and Premiere does this funky thing where it only plays the top corner of the frame when I try to play the timeline. When I pause I can see the whole frame again. Image on the left is the same frame (give or take) as the frame on the right. Left is paused, right is playing. I seem to remember both BMD and Adobe saying they have no plans to support JVC's codec because so few people require it.

It also depends what your shooting. For example, I've heard theories that for slow motion you want absolutely no motion blur, so shoot with a faster shutter angle than 180. Since slow-mo makes things look more 'magical' you can heighten the feeling by ensuring everything is sharp in the movement. I'd shoot slow motion at 90 degrees - But i don't do it often, so could be getting mixed up.

That's what I thought. But the last I read that was before the new date was changed to the 5th Oct, so perhaps more info was available. IBC starts in like 2 weeks. I imagine it'll be released around then - or at the very least, there will be an official update.

@John Brawley - Love the clip, nice one. Having used it youself now, how do you feel it will match up to the bigger cameras you use in your work. You've said you use the original pocket often, and other people have said this is missing that kind of mojo. In the real world, does that make matching it to it's bigger brothers any different? Will you be ditching the OG pocket for this on your shoots? EDIT: Also @CaptainHook, do you know is there any validity in B&H's new release date? (Oct 5th)

Do you know of any plans to release some untouched original files before the camera is released? I think even that would be hugely appreciated, perhaps more so than the forest video.

Also, what would recording to an Atomos provide that you can't do in camera with BMD? (aside from ProRes RAW for the time being) I suppose you could record at a lower resolution for distribution, while keeping the 4K originals for archive...

They're definitely doing it on purpose to hold our interest. How many people are not buying those Nikons just because this is so close now?

I've got a good feeling about this.

Since they're in Aus, they could actually do 1st Oct and (most of) their customers would still get it in Sept haha!

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