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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.

I'm not sure where you get that from that image. What I get is that there's a thing called a "Pyxis Pro Handle" and that the camera will be usable by some guy with a single very strong arm and an abnormally wide left half of his body.

Half of 6K is 4K. Each dimension is 1.5x bigger. But your point is still right, I think. If line skipping skips every other row and every other column to form the image, the result would be 1/4 the resolution of the full sensor - in that case, 2.5k.

Oh! Sure enough, lookings like it's using the UC 12K sensor. UC 12K body is $7k, current Pyxis is $3k so... probably somewhere between those numbers. Lack of internal ND is a bummer, but I'm guessing that means it'll have a mirrorless mount available. If the weight is closer to existing Pyxis (1.5kg) vs UC 12K (4kg), it could be a real winner - especially if it's closer to $4k than to $5k.

I think their "plan" for it is "MaKE iT hERE" Oh, that doesn't make sense for 50-year old camera lenses? "tOO BaD wErE MaKInG MuRCa GrEaT" I don't care much about an import tax on diamonds, if that's the example that we're using. I'm much more concerned with the impacts of things like the aforementioned 10% tax on Australian beef - though Australian beef is only around 12% of imports. But it's on Canadian, Mexican, and Brazilian beef (our three biggest import partners for it) as well... Tariffs on luxury goods like diamonds (and cameras) is... a little whatever, it's irritating. Putting them on basic goods that people need to live, on the other hand... that's just cruel. And in the case of stuff like beef, our domestic beef production is already about as high as it's going to be. Welcome to the land of the not-so-free and the home of the absolutely unnecessary inflation.

Does any Black Magic camera have autofocus other than single AF? At some point, they'll probably need to implement it, but even their flagship only has single as far as I know (I'd be very pleasantly surprised if someone told me I just hadn't been able to find it - but there's not really anything in the menus and if I press the AF button on the body, it does a really basic single AF - one of the reasons that I rigged mine with a DJI Focus Pro). I wouldn't even care that much if they did full AF - if they just did like Canon's cinema OS and gave little arrow indicators for whether the thing under the focus point was in focus, that'd already be a big improvement). Otherwise, I think a new pocket camera from them under $1k is a longshot. It's not impossible, but they made a big deal about lowering the price of the micro 4/3 BMPCC 4K to $995 in December.

I've been on a buying spree for the last month to prepare for this coming. I think I've bought like a year's worth of camera gear in a month. Guess I also need to think about which vintage lenses I want to order from Japan on ebay since there's still 1 month before the $800 de minimis exemption ends and those get slapped with tariffs too. I wish that the only thing getting fucked by those tariffs were cameras. This is going to drive up the prices of nearly everything - and all that at a time when more than 100,000 people are suddenly unemployed between government cuts and private companies laying people off when their government contract got canceled without warning. Oh, and they cut a bunch of charity funding for food banks and the like so... yeah. ☹️

After a few tries to order the media module from stores who claimed to have it in stock, but didn't, I gave up and ordered a couple of CF Express cards that are on the recommended list when they went on sale. My cheap scrub Sabrent cards were working fine in the few limited tests I did in the house, but I'd rather use some sort of approved media when on a shoot. And then, suddenly, B&H had one in stock - and even better yet, it was used! Usually I'd be pretty iffy about buying used memory modules, but given that the UC 12K has only been in user hands for less than a year, I was pretty confident it would be fine. It showed up earlier today and as far as I can tell, it is! I still need to check if there's a way to display the media age/lifespan on the camera, but to stress test it, I set the camera to something I'd be unlikely ever to use - 8K 16:9 at 168fps in 3:1 compression. Then I set up the camera in another room pointing at a downspout in the rain and let it go. After around 30 minutes, I had to change the battery (even my biggest 220Wh v mounts only last so long, especially with the 26v converter, and it didn't start full). With the second battery in, everything recorded fine until I stopped it with 1 minute remaining. Conformed (in camera) to 23.98p, this left me with approximately 7 hours of footage. At the end, the media module was mildly warm to the touch and the camera's top handle (the fan exhaust vents upward) was uncomfortably warm. Not bad for having spent about 40 minutes writing 3 GB/second of footage. The heat sink on the media module (and on the CF Express module) is substantial and I'd guess the airflow is well-designed to flow over it. I threw it on a timeline to have a play - looks really nice and while it isn't exactly a challenging scene, the raw files seem very flexible. My biggest lesson learned was that unless BMD release a cheaper media reader, plugging the camera into 10gE is really the only way to edit stuff in situ - and the only reasonable way to offload footage. I tried it via USB and what I learned is that instead of just working as a media reader, the camera exposes a fake network interface over USB. Network properties in OSX show it as 100 megabit per second. Trying to edit that way in Resolve means a delay of more than a second when you scrub anywhere on the timeline - and playback is like ~1fps. Wifi was a little better with a slightly more responsive timeline and like 1-6fps. When I plugged into 10gE, I could edit in real time. If the cheap version of the camera (which I bought) came with a power cable, I could presumably just offload overnight with one of the slower methods, but since I'm running entirely on batteries, that's just not a good option. Anyway. Here are some water drops falling from my broken rain gutter with rain falling nearby.

It would be interesting. One thing that I got from the Shane Hurlbut video was that one of the reasons that they built their own media module for the UC12K is that with the UMP, especially in 12K mode, they got lots of complaints about dropped frames due to media not keeping up. It's a little surprising since the data rate at 8:1 isn't all that crazy and in my testing so far, my pretty basic Sabrent CFE cards kept up just fine, but I don't know if I'd have that confidence when shooting for a full day. Anyway. The 9K mode on the UC12K is fantastic. Instead of the 12K UMP sensor, I wonder if they'd do a 9K S35 cut-down UC sensor for it. If they did that with a mirrorless mount (and ideally built-in ND's), then Black Magic would have their second camera I was interested in after the original BMPCC.

I don't know if the 16TB media module for the Ursa Cine series has been officially announced yet. If not, I'm sure it will be there. Though I'm not completely sure who the target market is - people who really want to cry when they 15 hours of footage to a media failure? Along those lines, a hope is that they'll announce a smaller media module reader for an individual module - one that costs less than like $1k. Right now, when using the media module, offload options are USB to the camera, 10gE to the camera, or the expensive rack-mounted media module reader. I think a lot of people are hoping that they'll announce a 6K or 8K camera using a cheaper variant of the UC 12K sensor.

This depends entirely on the camera. If 3200 is the second native ISO, it'll look great (and probably better than 2000 or 2500). I'd even go to 4000, 5000, or in the case of like an FX3, 12800 if that matched a native ISO.

Part 1 of a "first look" of the UC12K featuring Shane Hurlbut is up: