Interesting image comparison between DSLR and POCKET cam in Black Magic Design website.

In the dslr image there is sun light in the flor and in the mobile/movable and much more sun coming from the window. In the pocket cam image there is not the same amount of sunlight. Wouldn't be better to use the same light in the image to compare?

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/technology/

In the test below, the Prores does not have the same dynamic range as Raw. Will be possible to work with raw with SDXC cards? Or will Prores with film log deliver same 13 fstops DR as Raw?

http://cinescopophilia.com/blackmagic-cinema-camera-raw-vs-prores-in-a-minute/

@QuickHitRecord @Vitaliy_Kiselev , wouldn't the strange position (so low), be due to the aspect ratio of the sensor (seems near square), and wanting to start the scan from the actual top of the sensor. if they centered it in the middle it would have to crop the top and the bottom, making for either a more complicated crop/calculation, but also possibly leading to a delayed first line of actual imaging scan. To me it seems like a simpler solution offset the sensor vertically, then to start scan from top of sensor, and not wasting time on initial scan lines that aren't even used in the final image, just to be cropped. Ideally the scan could stop at the end after 1080 lines, so the next scan can start (less rolling shutter), but less ideally, it would be a more simple crop to drop lines after 1080.

@No_SuRReNDeR and others - Low-light performance is going to be pretty much the same as the BMCC. The active pixel density is the same, it's the same generation sensor, so it'll have virtually the same low-light performance. It obviously won't be on par with a 1D, but with fast lenses it'll be quite good.

Sensor size really doesn't matter as much for low-light performance as everyone seems to think. What matters is active pixel density.

erase double post.

Interesting image comparison between DSLR and POCKET cam in Black Magic Design website. In the dslr image there is sun light in the flor and in the mobile/movable and much more sun coming from the window. In the pocket cam image there is not the same amount of sunlight. Wouldn't be better to use the same light in the image to compare?.

@apefos, they are demonstrating how blown out the image would look in comparison to the ability to capture all the DR with a RAW image. It's a bit exaggerated but basically that's what would happen if you recorded a window with full sun shining thru. 8-10 stops of DR won't be able to capture it. You could expose for the scene but then the interior would be too dark.

Has anyone found a definition of "Active m4/3s mount"? Does that mean Aperture control and focusing or just aperture control?

-I noticed on a video that it seems to have a built in intervalometer of some kind that a nice add on.

I might be wrong, but i think that "Focus" button is for focus peaking assistant.

And I've sold a TV Zoom 11.5-90 f2 for 40 bucks a couple of months ago because it was useless with my GH2 :S

PLEASE help me understand this. I am a run and gun doc filmmaker and will be shooting a fair amount of shots indoors. I was thinking about buying this, and paring it with rokinon cine lenses and a speed booster by meta.

I have 2 questions for you.

1. would this setup do well for indoor shots.

2. would the DOF be shallow if shot at something like 1.4 t with the speed-booster? would it look like an APS-C sensor (7d) at 1.8 or 2?

Thanks greatly.

-NP

I look at this camera and I see a product aimed completely past the bulk of the posters here. It is not an all-purpose camera for high quality stills and stealth prosumer filmic video right off the card. It is essentially a Pro GoPro minus the fisheye and ultrawide FOV. That's what BM's demographic wants, and that's what they're getting. It's a niche pro camera targeted at a specific type of user and a specific type of shot and a specific workflow, and from what I've seen almost nobody here fits that bill including me. I have zero interest in this camera aside from casual curiosity about when some of its tech might trickle down to all-arounders I would actually have use for.

Stills? Forget it. Yes you can pull a 2MP frame and call it a still, but your phone takes better stills than this thing no matter what lens you stick on it. A frame grab would be appropriate within the context of a 1080p video e.g. a title frame but as a "still" photo you'd want to share/print, no.

3X crop means this camera is an even bigger bitch than m43 to find usable handheld glass which is how 99% here shoot and don't give me that nonsense about shooting your feature or spec rap video or festival short for the Euro market, the majority here seem to be along the lines of, well, me, who owns tripods sure but mostly shoots handheld with fast wide-to-normal glass. The handful who fall outside this group, save it, we know you're real filmmakers, OK? That one where you shot your new car and we could see your goofy reflection as you jabbered on about god only knows, that was genius stuff. Art even. So you get a free pass. The rest of us who just about manage with the Lumix 14mm and the SLR 12mm will find that those lenses are basically where the BM pocket cam starts looking wider than tele, and if you want to go wide you'll need to experiment and buy a bunch of weird eBay CCTV c-mounts till you find a decent 8mm that doesn't suck too much, or drop a thou on the Pana 7-14mm, or I don't know, wait for Metabones to promise you a BM-compatible SpeedBooster is on its way so find a comfy chair because you're going to be waiting in that chair till the nurse comes around with your pills and some apple sauce.

I try not to extrapolate my own specific needs/wants to the overall chitchat here because everyone's different and that's special etc. But really, I think the cartwheels and streamers are a bit premature and probably even uncalled for. The real hot tamale is 4K for $4K, but that's too rich for everyone's blood here so it's a non-story. The unicorn for a grand instead of buying a boring old GH3 (fail! it's already months old!) is what gets you all hot and bothered, I know. I understand. But think about it some more before you jerk your cursor over to B&H for a pre-order. As an adjunct to real cams in a pro environment, sure. For the average prosumer run'n'gun chucklefuck with one cam and big dreams, this thing's a grand down the toilet.

@Shaveblog I hear you. Finally came to my senses and am going to invest in GH3 or NEX5/6/7 instead. My clients couldn't care less about 13 stops.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev I hear you VK but this time around I hope they get things right..

@GravitateMediaGroup @shaveblog Just like Gravitate said it may not be the camera for "you" having all that power in a pocket size cam is amazing, I call that tech marvel.. So many people want more, more DOF to be honest I don't know the reason why 16mm is more than enough I guess it's all a preference thing just saying.