[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/90049558[/vimeo] Above: Prospect, a short film shot on the 2.5k Blackmagic Cinema Camera The Blackmagic Cinema Camera was the first foray for the company into the camera market and was announced 2 years ago this month. I know many users were expecting more from firmware updates in the meantime to add basic features and also features promised by Blackmagic themselves. Many were expecting these to be announced this week at…
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Download firmware v1.5 from Blackmagic Just a heads up (full post to follow when I’ve had some shooting time with it) – the eagerly awaited firmware update from Blackmagic Design which gives the Pocket Cinema Camera raw video has arrived. This will allow you to shoot 12bit Cinema DNG in full 1080p. Blackmagic recommend the Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB card for raw. I am going to be using the LOMO…
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/74286078[/vimeo] After a very limited initial release, the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is slated for an end of September ship date  in greater quantity. The good news is that the extra time has given Blackmagic some leeway to tweak the camera.
Above: my EF mount camera with Iscorama 54 and ReWo BMCC cage UPDATE. Cameras are now in stock in the US at the new prices of $1995 – At Hot Rod Cameras Full Blackmagic range – both EF and mFT cameras now in stock At Adorama Blackmagic Cinema Camera with EF Mount Blackmagic Cinema Camera with Micro Four Thirds Mount At B&H Photo Video Blackmagic Cinema Camera with EF Mount…
Our favourite GH2 hacker Vitaliy Kiselev has just released version 2.55 of NTools, his firmware patcher for Nikon cameras. Vitaliy says there’s references to ‘LiveView Raw’ in the firmware. What does it refer too?
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What’s new? Timelapse interval recording Canon lens F-stop display on the monitor ExFAT file system support for SSD media SDI output now supports RP-188 timecode I’ve installed the update and here’s what I think…
A few months ago I reported back what Canon had told me officially at Photokina – that the 1D C had some very minor hardware changes over the 1D X (like a headphone socket) but that the camera was fundementally the same camera with a firmware update to enable 4K recording. The Canon product manager was technically knowledge and utterly adamant this was the case, there wasn’t a hint of doubt…