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Some new details courtesy of Petapixel: - Will support 4:3 open gate (brace yourself for rolling shutter comments!) - "Will have an electronic variable ND filter" - 0.6-2.1/2-7 stops - I'm assuming this is in-body, but they didn't specify - Supports an internal NP-W235, seemingly as a backup - CF Express type B and SD card slots - Supports Tascam XLR Microphone handle - Frame.io support https://petapixel.com/2025/04/06/new-fujifilm-gfx-eterna-details-a-fancy-variable-nd-frame-io-and-more/ If they bring 4:3 to the GFX 100 II, it could be fun for anamorphic shooters, especially if anybody comes out with some decent anamorphics that cover it for under $5k. The electronic variable ND is a good idea too. Still, if they don't nail the pricing, it'll be a hard sell vs the Ursa 17K now that it has a $22k (or so?) body-only option (or maybe more now for those of us in freedom-land). At least the 44x33 sensor is a differentiating factor vs the 56x24mm sensor.

Yes, in many cases, it would be the original vendor. Because especially on the stock market, they care about profit margin and not absolute dollars. In a theoretical situation, let's say Canon currently sells a camera for $3,000 and they get 10% profit margin on it. Now there is a 10% tariff levied. Will they sell the camera for $3,300? No. Because then they go from making 10% on each camera to making 9.1%. Their stock will drop. Instead, the camera will sell for $3,340 or so. Now the margin is retained and wall street isn't pissed off. BMD, I think, isn't a public company and as far as I can see, their US price increases pretty closely track the tariff increases without maintaining margin. The changes have caused total havoc on BMD's pricing - UC 12K only went up 10% or so from $7,000 to $7,700. Pyxis went up 33% to $4,000 and Pyxis 12K went to $6,600 which puts the price way closer to the Ursa now, making it a harder sell.

I'm about 80% there with you, but if the so-called "AI" tools are also for things like making smarter masks/object tracking in Resolve, I'll gladly take it. I have 0 interest in generating random lamp posts in my footage, but for my last short film, I spent a bunch of hours doing object tracking manually for somebody's eyes to turn them black when she gets possessed because when I tried the automatic tracking, the machine kept losing track of them. When I looked online to see how to improve the hit rate for automatic tracking, the general advice seemed to be "adjust some parameters and try again and keep doing that until it's tolerable." If there's some machine learning model that makes it track like super duper well, I'd even consider paying a small upcharge for it. As it is, I'm probably going to pay more than that to have a real special effects person do it because my end results are a bit trash (though thankfully most people watching don't comment on how the blackened eyes are shifting on the face a little bit).

That's the specific reason, though, that they are that different. If BMD charge me $60 to upgrade to the latest major version every year and I am not interested in the new features that they added, I pay them $0. If they go to a subscription model and charge me $5/month, I pay them $60 every year and if they add new features that I don't care about, I still have to pay them $60 for it or I can't use the existing features that I need. Basically, a subscription model removes the impetus for innovation and for developing features that customers are interested in. Like if the new feature is "we added a stock footage catalog that you can also pay to access," I wouldn't want or care about that new feature. I haven't used stock footage before and don't expect to use it any time in the near future. So yeah, there's a world of difference between a subscription and an optional yearly cost for extra features (and this is more or less how Luminar have been doing things and I'm here for it)

If it's subscription, I think there will be rioting in the streets and a lot of users migrating to Final Cut... including me. On the other hand, given that I paid like $200 for my license like 5-8 years ago and have been receiving free upgrades ever since then - and now I have a second license that came with my camera, if they were to ask for $50/year for license upgrades, I wouldn't be upset. After all, if Resolve either makes no money or loses money, they have no incentive as a business to keep supporting it. I'm not upset about that. If, however, they want me to hand them $20/month to use it, I'm done.

These are the numbers provided by the Blackmagic employee in the forum thread that I linked above. 8K 3:2 Open Gate 13.51 8K 16:9 11.61 8K 17:9 10.89 8K 2.4:1 8.59 8K 6:5 13.51

Haters of rolling shutter, weep with sadness. While the 8K readout speeds that the the Blackmagic employee posted in this thread are still very good for an 8K camera, they are about 2x the speeds from the Pyxis. For me, I wouldn't care much about ~12ms readout in 8K 16:9 mode and would barely see a difference from the ~6ms of the UC12K, but some people seem really upset by even a small change in RS. I suppose that means that the 12k readout times will be about 24ms which is still totally fine for most things, but I suppose if they send one to Gerald to review, he'll spend half the video whining about it. https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=218593&start=50

If you can wait 2-3 months after it ships, you'll find it barely used for that much or even a bit less. That's the nice thing with YouTube-popular cameras these days.

Well that's just great! Off to watch the video!

Even if the sensor has PDAF as an option, there's no guarantee that they bought a variant of it that has it enabled. Someone somewhere else mentioned that it's the same sensor as is used in the S1H which has autofocus, but not PDAF. Any BMD didn't say that they were giving their cameras PDAF that I saw - just continuous AF. It's entirely possible that they're rolling out contrast-based AF across the board. The fact that Petty said it would only work with L-mount lenses since they give distance information would suggest PDAF, though. Petty did strongly imply, however, that it would be coming to other cameras in time - he made some comment about how it was really important for large format sensors. Only time will tell, though - for now, Focus Pro gives me something like decent AF, though with all of the annoyances that come with doing focus based on a second camera that sits under the other camera.

If I'd known that Pyxis 12K was coming, I would have been less sure to buy the UC12K. There are a lot of things I like about it, but it really is heavy... and I'm sad about all of the lenses that I own and can't use with it - Leica M, Canon FD, etc. Even more surprising to me, given that the VA 12G can handle 4 audio tracks - the two from the camera and the two from its mini-XLR's. Maybe I'll play with that again this evening to see if I missed something. Anyway, owning Fairlight also doesn't seem to be that much of a flex. I'm sure that the audio engineers who use it exist, but I've never met one. In fact, when they hear that I'm editing in Resolve, they groan. At least in recent versions of Resolve, it seems to manage to produce an AAF that they can use on the first try. That wasn't always the case. Anyway. Even though a first-party solution in-camera could be really convenient, unless the transmitter were pretty cheap/included, I'd be unlikely to use it. There's already enough proprietary stuff! Are the latest versions of Bluetooth audio better than the old ones? Maybe that'd be a way to do in-camera wireless mic connection without having to buy a special Blackmagic transmitter? Anyway - the DJI pocket 3 does that when paired with DJI mics... but they never bothered to import that to Ronin 4D. Maybe if they announce the mirrorless that everybody is hoping for, it would be there too.

I guess we don't know for really really sure, but they said it's the same sensor so if it isn't, that'd be weird. I think BMD would say that if you want internal ND, you should just get the somewhat more expensive camera that has them. You're on the right track with just looking for a lens adapter with internal ND. Otherwise, somebody like Kase might come out with some clip-in filters. As for the audio, it does not seem to be BMD's strong suit. The UC 12K doesn't even seem to support 4 tracks (unless I'm missing something). To use my XLR shotgun, I need to either lose one of the internal mic tracks or set the internal mics to get mixed onto a single track (like assign XLR to right channel and mix the internal mics onto the left channel).

Pyxis 12K looks really nice. Better than expected. I thought it'd have the same 60p limitations of the UC12K when not powered by 26v, but I think he said 8K open gate was available at up to like 75fps. Also, has the S35 9K mode that I feel doesn't get enough attention. I don't think Petty even mentioned it. Priced at $5k which is a bit painful. Still has a stupid fixed 4" screen on the left side of the body. Once they hit the used market, I will probably trade in my E2-S2G for one.

And hot damn, the Pyxis 12K is small for a 12K camera. Hot being the operative word. How are they cooling that thing?

Let's see if they make a 7" version - if so, I might be interested! The 5" is a great value. The just-announced Pyxis handle, on the other hand, is not a great value at like $900.

Party time for you!

Well, on one camera and only using L mount lenses. For now. He at least mentioned that it would come to the other large format cameras sometime soon-ish.

2 hours and 16 minutes in, finally the cameras. Looks like continuous AF is the first new feature. That's actually really nice!

So far, the Resolve upgrades don't include ProRes RAW, but they are editing footage from a Korn concert in part of it - so... at least they have the glory of 90's Nu Metal going for them.

Some of the demos of Blackmagic Cloud would also be a lot more impressive if they brought in somebody who is actually remote. As it is, it's hard to feel too impressed that he's able to control a camera that's only an arm's distance away.

They also mentioned earlier that Resolve 20 will be announced. I'm really hoping that they are finally breaking down and adding ProRes RAW now that it's not "that Atomos thing" and instead, it's "That DJI and Panasonic natively in camera" thing.

Yeah, it's really weird how he won't rotate things more than 90 degrees at a time.

I've watched a number of their NAB streams in the past and I don't remember any of them having this much time dedicated to various forms of video switcher.

The mount(s) look to me like standard locking mounts. And yeah, the second one on the ground looks like probably some sort of PL or EF - and how far it sticks out from the body makes me think the first is probably L or M mount closer to the body - on the other hand, the EF mount on the UC12K is nearly flush with the front of the camera. The thickness of the mount has nothing to do with internal ND's. On the UC 12K, the sensor plane marker on the camera body is about 3cm back from the front of the camera where the mount sits. While I have yet to take off the mount to look, I'm assuming that they put it so far back because they needed space for their mechanical ND swap mechanism. I'd love to be wrong, though!

The problem with what you're saying here, and in other places above here, is that it's actually wrong. Student loan forgiveness, sure, but a lot of Democrats including Kamala didn't run on LGBTQ rights (sure, her platform supported it, but it wasn't exactly a big topic in her speeches), global warming, or whatever other bogeyman your neighbors might think they did. Democrats, including Harris, ran a center right campaign. Their biggest mistake, I think, was in trying to appeal to people like your neighbors and the people in the South and Southwest who will never vote for them. In doing so, they lost a whole lot of people on the left who are already not enthusiastic about voting for them. Anyway. The way Democrats would win some elections would be to actually do something. When they're in power in Washington, they start claiming that they can't get anything done because Republicans are blocking them with procedural shenanigans or other similar stuff. Now they're in the minority and claiming they can't do anything to block the Republicans. Hell, Schumer and some others voted for the budget reconciliation package without demanding even a single concession. Here in Minnesota, they got a lot more popular a few years ago because they finally had the trifecta of state house/state senate/governor for the first time in like 20 years and they decided to actually use their power to do things like add universal free lunch at schools. It's one of the reasons that Walz was so popular that they decided to try to make him the VP. The Republicans lose an election and they're in courts fighting it, on the news claiming that the other side cheated, etc. The Democrats lose an election and they shake the other person's hand and say "good game." Basically, the powers that be seem to think that it's 40-50 years ago and politics as usual.