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2K BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, active m43, $995
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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9159/personal-view-video-contest#Item_1

  • kevin_kirchmankevin_kirchman

    @Cid, thats a big update. That card is only 22 bucks on Amazon.

  • vapourtrailvapourtrail

    I ordered two of the PNY cards for shits n giggles. If BM says they work I have no doubt they should. I should be getting them tomorrow. I'll post results.

  • crisvplcrisvpl

    what about PNY 64GB?

  • lmackreathlmackreath

    I would stay away from the pny.

    http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13989

  • makismakis

    @GMC I will try it thanx. Can you upload a black frame at 1600asa 360 deg please? Just for comparison... Thanx.

  • VeskuVesku

    Obviously light green and dark brown are the most cinematic colors. Must be because these examples are samples of 20 different BMCCP videos :)

    (reduced to 800px wide)

    More samples

    http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52756637

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  • vicharrisvicharris

    One of my videos is in there and that's a funny comment because that's actually what the colors looked like :)

  • ahblezaahbleza

    @vicharris Two of them are mine. Both ungraded, using the standard video profile.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    @ahbleza Funny. I like the complete unawareness of the poster about what he's posting. Think it's just more people that have never touched the camera giving "expert" advice on it. :) I've actually got some very neutral grades out of these cameras, especially with Hooks lUT.

    Pretty neutral if you ask me ;)

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  • vapourtrailvapourtrail

    @vicharris @ahbleza People need to learn about grading before posting stuff like this. I seriously couldn't be happier with my investment in BM. Vic, that last screenshot has tons of brown in it!! It's a desert!! :) But look! It grades nicely when handled properly!!

    Maybe we should ask for a moritorium on posting ungraded footage. Seems some people can't grasp the concept.

  • ahblezaahbleza

    Today I was sitting down with my color grader, and we spent several hours building nodes in DVR10 for my BMPCC footage. It's just so much fun having 12 bit raw to work with. Adding power windows, doing motion tracking with grades, and removing (rather than adding) color is just a pleasure in Da Vinci with the Pocket.

    Even the ungraded shots are sweet. Here's another one, again UNGRADED out of the camera.

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  • vicharrisvicharris

    I think it's also alot of footage thrown in FC. Most of the stuff coming out of it it seems to saturate the browns and shift the blues pretty high.

  • MaulKentorMaulKentor

    I'm looking for a tripod that I can take travelling for use with my BMPCC. I'm wondering if I can put a fluid head on a tripod like the mefoto ones on B&H would this work? Not sure if this belongs here but it's important that its for BMPCC so weight is not an issue.

  • markr041markr041

    The BMPCC is perfectly capable of producing any colors you want. I believe that most of the posted videos reflect incompetence at color correction, sometimes masquerading as art. Here are some RAW frame grabs that show you can get bright, saturated full spectrum color, if that is what you want.

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  • markr041markr041

    BMPCC time-lapse from RAW:

    Graded in Lightroom; edited in Vegas Pro. 10-frame interval.

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  • VeskuVesku

    @act

    Looks very good. Pleasing colors and sharpness.

  • GMCGMC

    Hi folks, here is a little piece I shot on the BMPCC in raw for the personal view video contest, the "Crazy Christmas Market". I love the grading possibilities of Resolve, amazing!

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9159/personal-view-video-contest#Item_14

  • VeskuVesku

    @GMC

    Nice video and good quality shots.

    I still wonder where comes this greenis/cyan overal color cast which is in many clips shot and graded with BMPCC. Is there some kind of systematic error or method that leeds to that?

  • GMCGMC

    @vesku you are right, there is a slight color cast (which can be tweaked any way you want of course), but I actually like it an kept it - I think it comes from the way Resolve debayers the image, as AdobeCamera Raw does not show it.

  • VeskuVesku

    @GMC

    To be honest it is not a slight. Especially with many other BMPCC users.

    Anyway, nice work and Merry Christmas.

  • last_SHIFTlast_SHIFT

    So I just got my BMPCC yesterday. Picked up 2 Sandisk Extreme Pro 64G 95mb cards...both are not recording RAW, ProRes is fine. Updated to latest firmware and still unable to record RAW. Anyone else have this problem? Shit, would really suck if I got 2 fake cards.

  • markr041markr041

    @last_SHIFT: Did you format the cards in a computer exFat, 128bytes?

  • markr041markr041

    @GMC: I use Resolve, and I do not get the not subtle color cast. That is your doing, and I do not find it attractive. It is a very nice video otherwise, ruined by this discolor. I do not see this tint in any cinema.

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