Any thought on how to use a proper shoulder strap with the BMPCC? This has always been a great way for me to get stable shots in a pinch, and I'd really like to figure out a way to get one to work with it for on the fly stability. The Zacuto Marauder is over $700 and not very conspicuous.

@SuperSet, I'm using it as a starting point but really, anytime there are speculars it's kind of useless. That's why a more finessed setting would be cool, to allow some headroom for highlights to blow out if wanted. It's fine though, it's easy enough to set the aperture manually. And most of my lenses are manual anyway.

The stuff I shot today was mostly ISO 200, I forgot about the base being 800 until later on. I've got NDs so it's no big deal either way. FWIW, I was plenty happy with the 200 stuff I've looked at so far, but I guess it's clipping the dynamic range artificially?

One more thing, I really wish there was an option to assign the Slate functionality to another button (or just - sorry, Blackmagic - disable it completely). It kinda breaks my flow up to tap twice for focus enhance rather than just once (and if you forget you have to back out of the slate menu).

@MRfanny

Okay, I was going to say something about the shadows, as it's a warmer shot that's actually me moving away from blue or pure black shadows. Although I need to learn how to do that while finding gradation to pure black.

On ISO: Because you're shooting ProRes, each ISO remaps DR, so the lower you go the more it's clamped. I've always shot 800, did test with 400 and it seemed okay, but I stick to 800 for the most part.

Wow! I'm looking through the stuff I shot on my walk this evening. True to its name, I literally took the BMPCC paired with the 20mm pancake in my pocket, which fit, although not comfortably.

I don't know how else to say it, but those of you who've been around for a while will know what I mean - I haven't felt this excited about the way my footage is coming out since I first got my DVX100A back in the day. I suppose that means this camera has the same level of mojo as the old Panasonics. Something about the color, the pleasing quality of the noise, the way things pop and have contrast but aren't overly sharp or synthetic feeling; it's organic.

To me it's a more humble image than what I've gotten used to from the DSLR world, which I've been a big proponent of for sure, but always found the results just vaguely unsatisfying. Always a little too much sharpening, or compression, or banding, or whatever - something to remind you that while you were getting a great image out of the camera, that it wasn't quite up to the demands you were placing on it.

Anyway, this is probably just rambling to everyone else, but maybe someone can relate to what I'm getting at. Basically I'm just super happy with the image from this camera, it's compelling to me in a way that makes me want to tell stories with it, create images, and that can only be a good thing!

@kholi

Maybe they've updated the Video display mode LUT?

@Oedipax Great to hear that. That's the feeling I've been getting about this cam. I'll def be getting this cam for my next project. Now its really about lens choices and post-pro workflow and grading to see what type of image types are possible. Same feeling here - the camera's possibilities get you pumped up to create great content. Very cool!

In regards to the brown cast, I posted a still from the first thing I shot with this camera on the Voight 17.5 on page 112. Used the BlueJacket Lut after a couple initial adjustments and a couple more after and I thought that looked damn good in terms of color, skintone and organic feel. Much better than anything I was able to pull from my GH2 from available light. I'll admit, I was using golden hour light so that is a bit of a cheat :) I'm not sure hot to post a link like others do that take you right to the prior post. You'd think after a year and a half I'd have that figured out!

NEW Power Supply from Switronix http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1007270-REG/switronix_pkt_basek_pocketbase_battery_holder_with.html

$155 (same cost as 9-10) batteries, and it's kind of ugly - not sure if this is worth it.

@Tron @Oedipax, yeah, I had the same experience. Here's something (warts and all) I did in a few minutes at Ai Weiwei's forever bicycles at nuit blanche a few days ago. Vimeo compression don't do justice to the detail in the shots, but I think the tonality and feel and range of the imagine is just wonderful. More professional tests to come....

@kholi I'm off for Canadian Thanksgiving but will try to get some raw files from the camera up after. Also this: "I'm completely fine with being in the trees and flowers club" = very funny!

If nothing else, I'm pretty sure I'll be the first person to film deep frying a turkey on the bmpc.

@balazer

I've been using 85% just to be on the safe side but I'll check. I seem to remember having a hard time pulling stuff back from 90% or 95%. I might be wrong though as I'm so mixed up learning both cameras.

Oh god it's making me hungry.