I bought a BMCC a couple of months back (the MFT version), but I don't feel anger at BlackMagic for lowering the price. I'm near the end of a 10 day shoot for a TV pilot, and just loving the daily rushes. Thank you BlackMagic for making me look good!

People, this is such a great bargain, especially with Da Vinci bundled in.

People should be a bit bit less critical on blackmagic. At $ 3000 the camera was already ground breaking in terms of value to money. Now they can make it evem more competitive they are doing it. What do people want, that they do like Canon sell the same rubbish for the last 5 years with the launch of the Canon 70D. A camera in 2013 without a $ 5 earphone jack.

Ef or not ef that is the question I have the sigma 30mm and tokina 11-16 for my never ever use 7d but love the look of the voigtlander and the slr magic 12mm on my gh cam

Most of the time, if you are a customer that bought something in the last month, they will offer a refund because 9 times out of 10 you are going to just return the original "full price" item and then repurchase the same product at the reduced price.

Does anyone know if bmcc in Australia are going down to $2000?

Scubapix showed the new Nauticam underwater housing At SMPTE show:

https://www.facebook.com/scubapix?fref=ts

They are on FB pages, I'll try to share here for who is not on FB:

Yes, is a piece of art like most Nauticam housings. Check the Piano keyboard on some Canon models.

Rumors say that a BMPCC housing will be released soon.

bought a used 5D M2 two years ago with for 900,-€ due to unremovable white paint spots on the body from a shoot in industrial ambiance. Sold it last week for 899,-€ Bummer.

5D M3 is a great camera - for stills. Sometimes I use it as a B-Cam for portraits and it works very well for this purpose too.

back to BMD topics .. ;-)

@jasonp you have to be taking into account ML, otherwise your comment regarding video with no moire is rubbish. ML is the only thing that makes a 5D relevant today and it has a lot of caveats, like anything else. Some people will suck it up and deal with it and others will opt for a more fluid solution.

If you're not talking ML-RAW you're talking about a camera that has been spanked by the GH2 since its release in almost every category but low light. But you can't seriously be talking about shooting a non-hacked 5D, can you? That would be foolish outside industrial or online applications where image quality is more forgiving.

Why even bring up its 8bit 4:2:2 out in a thread about a camera that records 10bit 4:2:2? Personally, it would be difficult for me to ever make myself shoot to ProRes on this camera but let's be real. The FF aesthetic can be achieved even with this camera provided enough ND with one of several Noktor/Nokton lenses. That's the lone feather in the 5D's cap that isn't dependent on ML fixing what Canon screwed up on the camera.

Shooting raw means grading and processing and unfortunately this camera, like early Red, like early Alexa, was marred by people who didn't know how to deal with the footage, releasing flat, poorly graded imagery. But the whole while there have been plenty of examples created by better folks at the wheel in post production who prove operator error does not define the look of any camera.

Troll on.

Black Magic...just give BMCC early adopters a free Pocket Cinema Cam! :)

@bwhitz

Exactly, the many videos using Canon means nothing else than Canon's mighty marketing power steamrolling over everything else with their army of fanboys mopping up the remains.

Yeah, that's why the industry is using them, you got it

Basically yea... it is just marketing and popularity. They're "good enough" quality, popular, and easy to use. That's it. N00bz can get better results out of the canon's out of the box than with a GH2 and producers only care about "buzz"... as 90% of them are dumb as shit and only "networked" to their positions... you can show them a clip from a GH2 that looks like Red Scarlet... but they'll still rather use a 5D for the next shoot... because the 5D's were out first and they've simply just "heard of a 5D" before. Spend 2 days in LA and it'll all make sense. Do you really need legions of people owning a particular camera to convince you? The Blackmagic cams (although they're only been out for a year) have GOBS more IQ than canon DSLRs... but will they be used as much, even if shipping in full volume? Nope. Probably not. Too intimidating for the n00bz and producers haven't heard of them as much... or at all.

@bwhitz You are totally right, but I've started to keep most of the producers I work with up to speed on current technology (sometimes I just straight up email them links to B&H online shop). I'd like to think that most of the time they trust my opinion. I shoot most of my smaller projects with GH2s, but I had some 'splainin to do the first couple of times I built one up at a bigger gig, but these days, mostly I'm expected to have my hacked GH2 around somewhere nearby, because once they see the footage they know it's no joke. As for the BMCC's, they are under the radar right now because of limited quantities, but I don't think they will be in the dark for long... specs and footage like that speaks for itself... Looks like we'll be using BMCC's (and BMPCC's likely too) on a TV series later this year, which was an easy sell with a cost/quality demonstration.