>>4294809I got a Blackmagic Production Camera 4K.
This weird brick is both a disaster and excellent in equal measure (though it might not seem so when reading its faults). When it was launched it was pointless; Now it just barely makes sense if you can process the footage in just the right way (i.e. make the software interpret it correctly so it looks good with minimal fiddling).
I could tell you many ways in which this camera is awful (most controls on touch screen, said screen is basically impossible to see in moderate daylight and has a certain amount of display lag, a bug which means if you switch from the Prores to Raw video codec (which requires a several second camera restart) with the “dynamic range” option set to “video” then the Zebras disappear, no continuous AF, battery is pathetic (solved by usb-c laptop banks invented later), 30fps maximum in any res, insane levels of mind-reading required to learn all the obscure undocumented steps to get davinci to interpret the data correctly, and a fan which is a) always on, b) is inadequate since the noise floor (fixed pattern, red stripes) is significantly better when the camera is cool/first turned on, c) doesn’t seem to speed up in response to an increase in heat, and d) is placed in such a way as to have its exhaust 80% blocked by any tripod quick release plate.
I excuse all of this, because it is £500, shoots 4K RAW (cDNG), and has a Super35 sensor and..
**GLOBAL** **SHUTTER**.
I did a little test film with a 58mm lens handheld, and even though it was shakey it still looked fantastic because every line of each frame was taken at the exact same time.
I’m never going back - it is now astounding to me that modern video camera users are used to using so many mitigations/bodges to avoid certain types of motion while using their devices that are supposed to be for capturing motion.
I love whip pans and crash zooms, motherfuckerrrr.
Might get an Ursa Mini 4K one day - same sensor but water cooled.
